As the so- called war on drugs enters its fifth decade, we need to ask whether it and the approaches that comprise it have been truly effective. And with an outsized unnecessarily large prison population, we need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, to deter, and to rehabilitate, but not merely to warehouse and to forget.
Holder discusses the effectiveness of the war on drugs and the need for reform in the incarceration system.
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