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Holder Calls for New Approach to Low-Level Drug Crimes

Nearly half of the nation's prisoners are serving time for drug related crimes. Judy Woodruff gets debate from Mary Price of Families Against Mandatory Minimums and William Otis of Georgetown Law School on Attorney General Eric Holder's push to scale back mandatory minimum sentences for low-level, non-violent drug offenders.