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The Massachusetts Senate passed legislation on Nov. 18 that would expand parole eligibility for nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom are barred from applying for parole because of mandatory minimum sentencing laws.
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The U.S. Sentencing Commission and the Department of Justice have both concluded that mandatory sentencing fails to deter crime. Furthermore, mandatory minimums have worsened racial and gender disparities and have contributed greatly toward prison overcrowding.
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www.drugpolicy.org/drugwar/mandatorymin/
www.drugpolicy.org/drugwar/mandatorymin/
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Over 90% of the inmates locked up in NYS prisons today for drug offenses are there because of the mandatory sentencing provisions of two laws that were passed 26 years ago, in 1973. The Rockefeller Drug Laws require harsh prison terms for the possession or sale of relatively small amounts of drugs.
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www.drugpolicy.org/library/factsheets/mandatory_ny.cfm
www.drugpolicy.org/library/factsheets/mandatory_ny.cfm
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Mandatory Sentencing. Series: NIJ Research in Action Published: January 1997 16 ... Evaluations of mandatory sentencing have focused on two types of crimes ...
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www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/161839.txt
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STUART TAYLOR, The American Lawyer: There was a lot of criticism at that time that the traditional method of criminal sentencing, which is letting the judge decide what he thinks is the appropriate sentence out of a huge range of possibilities was leading to wild disparities over the country, depending not so much on...
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www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/sentencing_2-20.html
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/sentencing_2-20.html
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COVER STORY:; Mandatory Sentencing; July 2, 2004 Episode no. 744 ... Lucky Severson reports on her and the ongoing mandatory sentencing debate. LUCKY SEVERSON: This is Elaine Bartlett, with her oldest son, Apache, in their old public housing neighborhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week744/cover.html
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Ashley is among about 14,000 people sent to New York prisons under the Rockefeller laws, in force since 1973, which impose harsh mandatory minimum terms on even first-time offenders — meaning they could get the same sentence as a person convicted of second degree murder. ... Until they win a change in sentencing guidelines,
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www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1653862,00.html
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The Legal Term * Mandatory Sentence * Defined & Explained ... MANDATORY SENTENCE - A criminal sentence set by a legislature that establishes the minimum length of prison time for specified crimes and thus limits the amount of discretion a judge has when sentencing a defendant.
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www.lectlaw.com/def2/m009.htm
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