Mandatory retirement

take advantage but most will need it. Those of us who sit in an office and are healthy and still working will not be able to collect at all until al least age 70 as it was until the 1990’s. Social Security income can still be reduced for earlier retirement and the less one pays into the system, but it would be much better macro economically if the payouts are closer to parity. A poorer worker needs the money substantially more than a wealthy worker. This solution would help more workers than…

prison system: minimum mandatory sentencing. Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) describes mandatory minimum sentencing as “laws that require the judge to give the offender a mandatory minimum prison term.” While some of these sentences seem reasonable, such as a life sentence for first degree murder, the minimums related to drugs are not so logical. The first nonviolent offense of “manufacturing, distributing, or possessing with intent to distribute” has a mandatory minimum sentence…

threat to yourself or others. A crime is a crime, but all crimes vary, so why create a law that makes any person caught violating a certain law serve a mandatory sentence. The mandatory minimum sentencing states that anyone caught with any amount, small or large, of a controlled substance in including cocaine, heroin or cannabis must serve a mandatory of 2 years with a maximum of 5 if it is their first offence. No matter how big or small, well there is a very big difference between a teenage kid…

Solution A: Berry calls for tougher law in New Mexico Recently, there has been a lot of crimes that have taken place in New Mexico, which led the government of New Mexico to take action on those violent crimes. There is a solution that is being discussed in New Mexico is to call for tougher laws, proposed by New Mexico Mayor Richard Berry and supported by the concerted and bipartisan effort. This bill will thoroughly change the three strikes law in New Mexico and make it stronger by removing…

talked about certain key points of prison reform that Obama was talking about. There are three main key points: “low-level drug offenders (with no ties to large organization, cartels, or gangs) will no longer be charged with offenses that include mandatory minimum sentences. The justice department has updated its frame work for evaluating compassionate release for inmates facing compelling circumstances; including old age. DOJ will also expand the use of ‘diversion’ programs such as drug…

order and safety. In these cases, mandatory minimum sentences should be imposed on people who fit certain criteria and who are charged with indictable offences. Recently, the author experienced (is there a better way…

Mandatory minimum sentencing in the United States needs to be reformed. Especially for the non violent offenses. For federal and state crimes there is a mandatory minimum sentencing law requiring Mandatory minimum sentencing laws requiring binding prison terms of a distinct length for people convicted. These sentencing laws are set in stone and prevent judges from fitting the punishment to the circumstances of the offense. Mandatory minimum sentences do not by any means override sentencing;…

Watching this film broadened my view of how the society I live in, works. Being black in America is truly one of the most horrific and challenging experiences a human being can go through. In America, slavery has been reincarnated through the decades to the Jim Crow laws and in present day, the prison system. Since the coming of our ancestors two centuries ago, our people have been mistreated and denied basic rights. Prior to watching The 13th, although I was not ignorant of the present issues…

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:…