Federal Mandatory Minimum sentencing is a manifestation from politicians who wanted to appear tough on crime by enacting a universal sentencing model. The reforms manifested throughout the federal system on the notion that sentencing punishment would deterring crime and drug usage during a problematic times that plagued the United States during the late 20th Century. The goal of the Sentencing Guidelines was rehabilitation with the belief that inmates spent an amount of them behind bars to “cure them of their criminal behavior” (Glueck, 1928; Nauman, 2013). By the 1970s and 1980s, concerns of indeterminate sentencing as well as epidemics of drugs and rise of crime rates began to shape political minds. Those concerns became an adoption of a
