Holder, Looks To Overturn Ruling That Would Apply Fair Sentencing Act Retroactively

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9. I am well aware of the fact that these aren't hard core criminals.

But keeping pot offenders out of jail will be a matter of changing laws; the police aren't going to change their attitudes easily, and the policies that put them there will put them back there, unless something changes and quickly. It's a very good policy, but the knuckle-draggers will foot drag. That means the people who run private jails and state and local jails. They will tell you that they know the people and should be given leeway.

Private and government jails are run as slave labour in a lot of places and ways. It's not an ideal system, but fixing it from the bottom is what will have to happen and that may take time.