Mandatory sentencing

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…

increased incarcerations. Some alternatives to long sentencing include drug treatment programs, ending mandatory…

the crime (U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Provision). Mandatory minimums have been placed on a variety of offences including certain gun and weapon related crimes, sex crimes, identity theft, as well as many others. One of the most common examples of mandatory minimums, and possibly the most highly debated, are mandatory minimums set on drug related crimes, for example, being caught with 1gm of LSD or 100 marijuana plants could mean a minimum of five years in prison (U.S. Sentencing Guidelines…

government created a set of mandatory minimum sentencing laws to help fight crime in the country. These laws require that judges sentence offenders of certain crimes for at least a minimum amount of years. Mandatory minimum sentences were created for a variety of crimes, but Robert NeSmith, editor-in-chief of the Law and Psychology Review of the University of Alabama Law School writes that the majority of federal prisoners is incarcerated for drug related cases pertaining to mandatory minimums…

Mandatory minimum sentences emerged in early American history as a proactive way to deter violent and rigorous crimes such as homicides, rape, and treason. Mandatory minimum sentences refer to fixed penalties and laws for offenders who commit particular crimes. These federal laws are set by Congress and do not allow judges to impose a sentence lower than what has been established. These sentences served the purpose of diminishing unlimited judge discretion and consequently lead to the limitation…

Mandatory Minimum Sentences are over exaggerated and harsh sentences criminals have to follow while they are in jail. This all started to prevent and stop crime for possession of any and all drug possession. Many victims are the cause of Mandatory Minimum Sentences sadly, which causes many problems dealing with family abandonment, budget expenses, or prison overcrowding. The amount of individuals that go to jail are more than any other prison because half of them are filled with people who…

implemented omnibus bill that introduced many new mandatory minimum sentences (cbc,2012). As part of Harpers tough on crime agenda, the bill introduced mandatory minimum sentences for crimes such as drug trafficking, child exploitation and some other violent offences(cbc,2012).In accordance to their tough on crime agenda, the harper government has introduced so many new mandatory minimums sentence, to the point that we now have the second most mandatory minimum sentences in the world, second to…

The issues in federal sentencing plan to alleviate the disparities in sentencing. Usually, the guidelines are often misused in the imposition of extreme sentences on persons who have a crime that does not deserve long-term prison or sentencing. This results in overcrowding in the prisons. The overcrowding comes as a result that most of the criminals are subjected to long-term prisons having committed crimes that do not deserve sentencing hence overcrowding example in Canada. There is the issue…

drugs, burglary, grand theft auto, to murder. I 'm going to be discussing how an offender is sentenced after committing a crime. Also what all the different types of sentences the United States has. Then I will go through the major philosophies of sentencing and some differences and similarities they have between each other. In today’s society there are many different types of sentences that can be given to an offender. To start off we have the determinate sentence this is where an offender is…

be inevitable for a prison system. The U.S. is slowly fixing problems in their system and ironically has helped to fix many in Afghanistan’s system. The prison systems in the United States and Afghanistan endure many issues such as: unnecessary sentencing, abuse/rape, and an overflow of prisoners. With some issues comes resolution, but problems in a system are inevitable.…