Los Estados Unidos reducirán la pena mínima por algunos delitos de drogas

El Gobierno de Obama ha presentado cambios importantes en el sistema de justicia penal y, entre otras cosas, prevé rebajar la pena mínima obligatoria en algunos casos de drogas. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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The Obama administration has unveiled major changes to the criminal justice system, dropping mandatory minimum sentences in certain drug cases.

Such terms will not be imposed for non-violent drug offenders with no gang or cartel ties, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a speech.

The US has one of the world's biggest prison populations, despite a 40-year-low in the country's crime rates.

Critics say that heavy drug sentences have hit minorities hardest.

"We need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, deter and rehabilitate - not merely to convict, warehouse and forget," Mr Holder said in a speech to the American Bar Association in San Francisco on Monday.

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