Alleviate overcrowded prisons and address racism in the Justice System. As we come together, we need to discuss although incarceration has a significant role to play in our Justice System, it can be ineffective and unsustainable. It poses a significant uneconomic burden. It comes with human and moral costs that are impossible to calculate. Michael the attorney general. The defendants with drug charges but no ties to large scale drugs organizations will be able to hold draconian mandatory minimum sentences. Eric holder comes after one month after 1,000 inmates in california initiated a Hunger Strike to protest conditions there. They said, quote, overcrowded prison versus been increasingly president bush. In 1978 the u. S. Held over just 300,000 prisoners. In 2009 we reached a high of 716 million prisoners. That is an 800 increase. Crime has not increased by prison incarceration has. The u. S. Holds 25 of the worlds prisoners even though we only have 5 of the worlds population. This morn