As Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced sweeping new sentencing policies last week, he once again called for a national conversation on racial equality, echoing a persistent theme throughout his career as a judge and prosecutor.

During an August 12 address to the American Bar Association, Holder advocated for an end to mandatory minimum sentences on some drug crimes and to reduce high incarceration rates that he called "both ineffective and unsustainable."

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