Mandatory Minimums in 60 Seconds

Mandatory minimum laws make the people who have committed the same crime get the same guaranteed sentence. This has resulted in prison populations soaring and causing people to spend more time in prison than necessary.

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Sources:

1. http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/st193.pdf
2. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11...
3. http://www.legisworks.org/GPO/STATUTE...
4. https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/...
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6. http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publ...
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