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O'Farrell's new mandatory minimum penalties target what he has called "alcohol and drug-fuelled violent offences".

The Senate softened Hogan's proposal, which included several mandatory minimum penalties for repeat violent offenders.

The Commission also pledged to work with Congress to reduce the "severity and scope of mandatory minimum penalties and consider expanding the 'safety valve' statute which exempts certain low-level non-violent offenders from mandatory minimum penalties".

He said imposing mandatory minimum penalties on violent home invasions was unnecessary because the court already applied the penalties the government sought to impose.

Time and time again, in different jurisdictions around the world, mandatory minimum penalties have been shown to be ineffective in deterring crime.

The new mandatory penalties for violent home invasions include mandatory minimum penalties of 15 years for murder, manslaughter or attempted murder committed in the course of an aggravated burglary, and mandatory minimum penalties set at 75% of the maximum penalty for crimes such as rape, grievous bodily harm and aggravated indecent assault committed during an aggravated robbery.

Receiving one illegal photo carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years.

Congress created the 20-year mandatory minimum penalty in 1986 just months after University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias overdosed on cocaine.

Over the last two years, federal prosecutors went from seeking a mandatory minimum penalty for drug trafficking in two-thirds of cases to doing so in less than half of them — the lowest rate on record.

In 1986, Reagan signed a drug enforcement bill that budgeted $1.7 billion to fund the War on Drugs and specified a mandatory minimum penalty for drug offenses.

5 nanograms or more: Mandatory minimum penalty of a $1,000 fine for a first offence, with escalating jail time for those convicted more than once — from 30 days for a second conviction to 120 days for each subsequent offence.