What Attorney General Holder's new sentencing guidelines mean for Maryland, how researchers are providing real-time captioning for radio, and the Maryland priest who wrote a letter condemning the Nazis for Pope Pius XI




WYPR: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast Podcast show

Summary: US Attorney General Eric Holder says he’ll direct federal prosecutors not to charge low-level, non-violent drug offenders with crimes that carry mandatory minimum sentences. We’ll ask former U.S. Attorney Thomas DiBiagio how that’s likely to play out in Maryland. Researchers at Towson are working to provide real-time captioning… For radio. We talk with the psychologist leading the charge. In the late 1930s, Jesuit priest John LaFarge was asked by the pope to write an encyclical condeming the Nazis. But it was never published. Tom Hall talks with Peter Eisner, author of "The Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler."