Holder on Native Americans: We Helped ‘Right Some Really Historical Wrongs’

ERIC HOLDR: “Indian country. You think about the tough history that exists between the United States and our native people, we have put on track I think, the ability to right some really serious historical wrongs. We’ve done I think a great deal. Much work remains to be done but this Justice Department was committed to addressing those problems in as frank a way as possible. 

Criminal justice reform,. If you look at the statistics, you’ll see the incarceration rate goes like this and goes up in about 1974 or late 70 -- something like that. We are the nation that incarcerates too many people for too long and for no good law enforcement reason. 

It is time, it is time to change the approaches we have been using the last 30 or 40 years. Through the great work of the people in this department, we are starting to reverse that trend. Again, more work remains to be done but we are on the way.”