States Trim Penalties and Prison Rolls, Even as Sessions Gets Tough

by | May 18, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Crime and Criminals, Economics, Finance, Law and Legislation, Mandatory Sentencing, Non-Bank Loans, Prisons and Prisoners, Sentences (Criminal), Sessions, Jefferson B III, States (US), Working Capital

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. May 18, 2017 Louisiana has the nation’s highest incarceration rate. But this week, Gov. John Bel Edwards struck a deal to reduce sentences and the prison population, saving millions annually. If lawmakers approve the...

5 Years in Prison, or 20? How Sessions’s Get-Tough Policy Would Alter Terms

by | May 18, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Drug Abuse and Traffic, Economics, Finance, Holder, Eric H Jr, Mandatory Sentencing, Non-Bank Loans, Sentences (Criminal), Sessions, Jefferson B III, Working Capital

By SHAILA DEWAN May 18, 2017 The federal courts in San Diego are full of cases like this: a 22-year-old man caught driving a car loaded with 33 kilograms of hidden methamphetamine — worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — across the Mexican...