Mandatory access control

skepticism. This happens from the effects of being in a confined space and thus heightens the mental strain of an inmate. Also, mandatory minimum sentencing has shown an unfair punishment put upon several people. Along with these unjust punishments, mandatory minimum sentencing shows to be a waste of public taxes for keeping inmates imprisoned. Instead of these mandatory sentences, alternative sentencing, such as community service, faith-based rehabilitation, and drug treatment should be…

imposed new sentencing guidelines for those caught with drugs. Within the new guidelines any drug related offense, addicts or dealers, resulted in a mandatory 15 years to life sentence. As a result, more prisons had to be built to accommodate the 2 million people who are serving long sentences for drugs (Mann). Recently talks of repealing “mandatory minimum sentencing” have come to surface under the Obama Administration:…

Latimer suffering from a severe form of cerebral palsy was killed by her father out of compassion. The father, Robert Latimer was then sentenced to the full twenty-five years in prison because mandatory minimum sentencing was barring any reduction to the punishment. Regardless of the circumstances, mandatory minimums set standards in sentencing that will prohibit any punishment lower than the specified level. Despite Robert’s sympathetic intentions he received a severe penalty for his actions.…

Facts: The accused, Robert William Latimer was initially charged with the second degree murder of his daughter Tracy Latimer. Tracy was a quadriplegic with severe cerebral palsy causing her to be immobile with the mental capacity of a four month old baby only able to communicate through facial expressions. Her condition, caused by neurological damage had led to up to six seizures a day forcing her need of on the clock care. Tracy soon developed scoliosis which is the abnormal arch of one's…

Through the year’s mandatory minimum sentences seemed like the way to go, nonviolent drug offenders made to serve a minimum term for the crimes they committed. Where the phrase “if you do the crime, you do the time” held a lot of truth and the “war on drugs” was just the beginning. But what if it is not so true anymore? What if I told you we have lost the war on drugs? And, what if mandatory minimums were responsible for some of the problems with in our criminal justice system? What was once put…

achieve this. The CJS aims to achieve justice by punishing those who pose a threat to our society while compensating for those who have fallen victim to crime. A just law can be determined by the degree in which it sustains equality, fairness, rights, access and consistency. By using the legal measures such as legal aid, judicial guidelines, bail and remand which it has at its disposal the CJS aims to uphold a just law system but as we will come to discover the CJS is far from flawless.…

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…

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What mandatory minimums do to our justice system is counter-productive when it comes to the Canadian courts, the entire discretion that the judge is supposed to hold becomes illuminated. These stiffer laws that Canada wants to be imposed can have a drastic backlash…

effort to reduce the mass amount of drugs, mandatory minimum sentencing laws were implemented into our country. Mandatory minimums are laws with set minimum sentences for certain crimes that judges cannot lower, even for extenuating circumstances. The most common of these laws deal with drug offenses and set mandatory minimum sentences for possession of a drug over a certain amount. In 1971, President Nixon declared a “war on drugs”, resulting in mandatory…