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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.
Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.
No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.
I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.
The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
