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Meanwhile, California legislators passed a mandatory minimum sentence law for sexually assault of an unconscious woman.

Over its four-year term, the Coalition scrapped suspended sentences, announced a crackdown in the parole system and instituted a raft of minimum sentence laws.

Critics have long contended that draconian mandatory minimum sentence laws for low-level drug offenses, as well as stop-and-frisk police policies that target higher-crime and minority neighborhoods, have a disproportionate impact on members of minority groups.

Her criminal justice platform recommends reforming mandatory minimum sentence laws for low-level nonviolent offenses as well as improving transparency and accountability through body cameras and more stringent use of force standards.

He was sentenced under the state's mandatory minimum sentencing law, under which "trafficking in controlled dangerous substances after two or more prior drug-related convictions" carries an automatic life sentence without parole.

The bottom line is that mandatory minimum sentencing laws have proved to be a failure.

Part of the problem is mandatory minimum sentencing laws, which shift power from judges to prosecutors.

Mandatory minimum sentencing laws should be repealed, or replaced with guidelines.

A Justice Department spokeswoman said the administration supported the judicious use of mandatory minimum sentencing laws for some serious crimes.

The announcement includes proposals to reduce prison time for nonviolent offenses and reform the mandatory minimum sentencing laws.

Even the judge said the punishment was too harsh but his hands were tied by mandatory minimum sentencing laws.