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Newshawk: Cherylheart Project www.cherylheart.org
Pubdate: Wed, 21 Jul 2004
Source: Ocean County Observer (NJ)
Copyright: 2004 Ocean County Observer
Contact:
Website: http://www.injersey.com/observer/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1212
Author: DeWayne Wickham
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?199 (Mandatory Minimum Sentencing)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topics/American+Bar+Association
KILL MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES
A recent column I wrote about a call from an American Bar Association
panel for an overhaul of mandatory minimum-sentencing laws got the
attention of a reader who has had his own run-in with the criminal
justice system.
In that piece, I said "the ABA report offers recommendations that
could fix a problem that threatens to turn our democracy into a penal
colony."
But what I saw as a chilling possibility, Ross Alan Milburn thinks has
already come to be. An inmate at the federal prison in Florence,
Colo., Milburn complained that he's seen too many young men enter the
prison with mandatory-minimum sentences, some of them drawing life
without parole for nonviolent drug crimes.
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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