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color are sentenced to mandatory jail terms more than any other race. Carrillo‚ Silvio. Should Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws be Repealed? 13 December 2000. 21 October 2010 http://speakout.com/activism/issue_briefs/1127b-1.html The author discusses the acts of 1986‚ which changed the law pertaining to the Anti-Drug Abuse act and the sentencing of violators. This article also examines the overcrowding of prisons related to mandatory sentencing. Caulkins‚ Jonathan
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spawned this (Allen‚ 2008). Because of this perspective the prison system in America is in need of serious reorganization. Since 1980‚ most states have one or more of their prisons or the entire system under orders from the federal courts to maintain minimum constitutional standards (Stewart‚ 2006). The fiscal effects of trying to support such a system must not been fully felt on our society‚ and the problem of keeping humanitarian and sufficient conditions in the prisons is equally problematic (Camp
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Drug production and drug dealing today has become a substantial source of revenue. Whether for making up budget deficits or for the enrichment of certain individuals‚ population groups‚ firms or even countries‚ drugs are distributed worldwide. Drugs also involve economically marginalized sectors of the population‚ such as peasant producers or some small-scale drug dealers‚ criminal organizations or certain closely-knit sectors of society in the world of business or State institutions. The recycling
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regressed to (War on Drug) strategies. iv. Rejected a recommendation from the US Sentencing Commission to eliminate or reduce the crack and powder cocaine sentences. b. Why are our prisons overcrowded due to different changes on drug reforms? i. Over the years‚ “Reforms” have been created‚ limiting the discretion of judges and members of parole boards. For example‚ sentencing‚ guidelines‚ length and determinate sentencing. (Gottschalk‚
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Discriminatory Sentencing What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system‚ which is full of inequality‚ discrimination and other things‚ which conflict with our fundamental rights.( B. R. Ambedkar). Society itself is very discriminative about race‚ ethnicity and sentencing those minority groups with drug charges against them and the dominant group getting lenient sentencing on the same charges there is also in general sentencing that is unjustified
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Why We Need Tougher DUI Laws in The United States There are many reasons that the laws for DUI need to be tougher in The United States of America. The ones that are of greatest concern are the death rates due to DUI offenses‚ the cost of these offenses and the repeat offender rate. The best way to combat these offenses is to make the fines larger‚ make the prison sentences stricter and make it harder for the offender to get their license reinstated after an arrest for DUI. The law for DUI’s is
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for this overcrowding of prisons which may vary depending on which state is examined. Some of these causes include recidivism‚ which is caused by the lack of treatment and educational betterment programs‚ the “tough on crime” approach‚ the mandatory minimum requirement and the Three Strikes Law. Prisons have been overcrowding for many years and both Connecticut and California know of this issue all too well. This issue in Connecticut reaches “a crisis point about every 10 years.” (“Factors Impacting
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drug offenders fill your prisons you don’t even flinch/ All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich/ All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased/ And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences/ In 2001‚ Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian‚ members of the band System of a Down‚ wrote this song in frustration about the mass incarceration of poor American’s‚ for minor drug offenses‚ that was going on then and ‚ unfortunately‚ is
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it really. Right away you think it is the criminals fault for getting arrested in the first place right? More people should be well behaved and not end up in prison? But what a lot of people fail to notice are the ones that actual do the actual sentencing. In Paul Butlers book‚ Lets Get Free he writes‚ “I became a prosecutor because I hate bullies. I stopped being a prosecutor because I hate bullies.” Do I think that some people belong in prison? Absolutely. But I also think that there are also
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