Mandatory Minimum Law Essay

Should Congress repeal “Mandatory Minimum Law”? My answer to that question is yes, many of my opponent’s arguments for why these laws should not be changed are; This law helps keeps criminals off the street for longer periods of time, thus, causing the crime rate to decrease. Based on that argument I must argue that this not true, statistic that we will get into later have proven that this is not a deterrent to crime. Daily our prison population continues to grow soon, there will not be enough room for prisoners to go. This law has put a blanket sentence on people in specific crimes, crimes are crimes however, there are crimes committed without the intention of the crime being permitted, often people that do this heinous crime are no in their right minds when they are done. Unless …show more content…
Until we get this right the prison population here in the United States will continue to grow, there will always be criminals but the number of them would significantly dwindle if we sought to improve opportunities across the board.
According to personal knowledge as well as the article the race that is disporportunetly impacted by the Mandatory Minimum are “Blacks”. Do Blacks commit more crimes or are they sentenced more frequently and with harsher sentences than those that are White? If that statement is true it would seem that there is some sort of policy that has been put in place by people in order to continue the plight of African Americans, With broken homes and poverty.
Are people to blame for others crimes well, Yes, and no. If there is some system of un fairness people do not feel like human and often times people will act according to have they deal. If a person has been made to believe all of their lives that they are nothing, generally they will act in that way. Often times making them un emotionally attached and have the ability to do things that a person that is not in this state would never