Attorney General Jeff Sessions: ‘We don’t have a sentencing problem, we have a crime problem’

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday criminal justice reformers should focus on stopping crime instead of making reforms to the sentencing process.

“I’m afraid we don’t have a sentencing problem, we have a crime problem. If we want to bring down our prison population then we should bring down crime,” Sessions told a group of sheriffs in Oklahoma.

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