Sentence examples for minimum sentencing laws from inspiring English sources

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

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

Mandatory minimum sentencing laws should be repealed, or replaced with guidelines.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

AMERICA locks up too many people for too many things for too long, largely due to the prevalence of mandatory-minimum sentencing laws.

Kushner has worked for months with key House lawmakers and senators to shepherd through a legislative package that reforms federal prison policy and, potentially, mandatory-minimum sentencing laws.

Congress and many states have begun to reconsider the harsh mandatory-minimum sentencing laws they enacted at the height of the war on drugs, but many people remain in prison, serving sentences meted out under the old laws.

"With mandatory-minimum sentencing laws, the nation had already locked up so many African-Americans that whole communities were decimated," said Mr. McNamara, a former police chief in San Jose, Calif.

Because Mills had been convicted twice before, of possession of less than five grams of crack cocaine, the federal judge on his case was compelled to hand down a sentence of life in prison without parole, under mandatory-minimum sentencing laws.