The Rev. Jesse Jackson accused the government of trying to intimidate his wife and other protesters on Vieques with excessive jail terms, fines and mistreatment.
He unsuccessfully sued the American government, in a case known as Kahle v Gonzales, in an effort to roll back what he regards as excessive copyright terms.
On ABC he offered an explanation of his 1987 vote against the Older Americans Act, which provided $1.6 billion for programs including health centers, Meals on Wheels and Alzheimer's research: "Well, probably because I thought that it was excessive in terms of funding".
Going forward, 40,000 people convicted of these offenses will avoid excessive incarceration terms.
She received "trigger point injections" for this, but the AFTRA allegedly claimed the treatments were "excessive in terms of frequency and duration" and wouldn't cover them all.
Excessive prison terms do not make us safer and, because of their impact on the families (especially the children) of the incarcerated, they might make us less safe.
Under the altered policy, the attorney general said defendants will instead be charged with offenses for which accompanying sentences "are better suited to their individual conduct, rather than excessive prison terms more appropriate for violent criminals or drug kingpins".
Effective immediately, says Holder, nonviolent drug offenders "will be charged with offenses for which the accompanying sentences are better suited to their individual conduct, rather than excessive prison terms more appropriate for violent criminals or drug kingpins".
Rather, the plan will instruct federal prosecutors to stop hitting mere garden variety drug dealers with "excessive" prison terms and start handing out sentences more appropriately suited "to their individual conduct," according to excerpts from Holder's prepared remarks this afternoon at the American Bar Association in San Francisco.
Consensus is lacking in the literature regarding the level of loss of fat-free mass that is considered excessive in terms of undesirable metabolic outcome.
