Sentence examples for minimum drug laws from inspiring English sources

Congress must get rid of mandatory minimum drug laws.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is speaking out against racist mandatory minimum drug laws and mass incarceration.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder continued to speak out against racist mandatory minimum drug laws and mass incarceration.

The new poster child for mandatory minimum drug laws, in fact, is the investigation that led from Morgan Brittain's overdose to Tovar-Ramos.

In this way, rather than serving Congress's purpose, federal mandatory minimum drug laws actually function as a prosecutor's tool of interrogation.

You may not recognize my name, but I am one of the thousands of inmates sentenced under federal mandatory minimum drug laws.

The mandatory minimum drug law passed Congress in 1986, following the overdose death of University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias.

Congressional decisions chief among them the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, often just called the "crime bill"—encouraged states to pass their own laws to increase the number of people locked up: three-strikes laws, mandatory minimums, harsher drug laws, longer sentences, lower ages for criminal responsibility, more restrictions on parole.

A combination of over-criminalisation, mandatory-minimum sentences, tough drug laws and excessive prosecutorial power have stuffed America's prisons to bursting.

A 56-year-old Texas man will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars for selling marijuana in a case that highlights the severity of the mandatory-minimum drug sentencing laws that are making a comeback under the Trump administration.

The real challenge is for Congress to repeal the mandatory minimum provisions of the drug laws so judges can use the more flexible but still stiff sentencing guidelines.