May 12 (UPI) -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed federal prosecutors to charge suspects with the most serious provable crime, a reversal of Obama-era policies.
The two-page order, sent to 94 U.S. attorneys across the United States, calls for 10-year mandatory sentences for possession of high amounts of drugs. In April, Sessions upgraded charges against immigrants suspected of attempted repeated entries into the United States to a felony, elevating the charge from a misdemeanor.