#100 fine to be set as minimum for drug possessionDeborah SummersPolitical Correspondent
The main purpose for mandatory sentencing was to try to get rid of the drug lords and to eliminate most of the nation’s street drug selling. It was to impose that the same crime would have the same sentence all over the nation. Some of the negatives that rose from mandatory sentencing ...
Most cases within the range may well merit a sentence of three years or more, but conduct at the far end of the range may not. Article content “At that far end stands, for example, the licensed and responsible gun owner who stores his unloaded firearm ...
196 Words 1 Page Open Document Hello Albert, thank you, for your delightfully informative post. There are many offenses that should not have minimum sentences which would relieve the overcrowding problems today’s prisons currently face. A lot of these non-violent crimes could be deterred through...
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Although there are many mandatory minimum statutes, those with the greatest impact on Federal sentencing are for drug trafficking offenses that involve large amounts of drugs and possession or use of a firearm during a drug trafficking felony or a violent crime. This research focuses on sentences ...
The federal government implemented a new bill in 2011, which increased the minimum mandatory sentence for violent and drug crimes. However, increasing the sentence did not help to decrease the crime rate in Blueville. Minimum sentences are thought to be successful when there is a certainty of be...
I propose to abolish the mandatory minimum sentencing because it is costly to our criminal justice system. However, the system needs to be restructured due to the overcrowding of our jails and prison. Our prison is overcrowded with an offender who was sentenced for drug traffic and carry a wea...
Open Document The effect of mandatory minimums has only proven to be detrimental over the past 33 years. This act was put in place in 1984 to stop the increase in drug offenses, yet has made no affect whatsoever. What’s left of this act can only destroy lives, mainly people of color...
being considered within the legal community now is, while new crimes are being recognized as they are committed, should mandatory minimums really be “mandatory”, or should they be “suggested”, and serve more as a guideline, while the actual sentence is left to the discretion of the ...