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    Is the war on drugs a complete failure of a policy that has not deterred drug use, has some racists roots, hurt innocents, ruined lives and is a waste of money? The policy has been in place for over forty years and we are no closer to ending it than we were forty years ago. Has the policy that has cost the United States over a trillion dollars yielded any results? According to an opt-ed by Buchanan, Julian “the war on drug is nothing but a war on drug users.” Even though it was in reference to…

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    New Mexico Tougher Law

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    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…

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    The 13th Film Analysis

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    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…

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    offenders serving a lengthy mandatory prison sentencing within federal prisons. Years ago, during the “war on drugs”, this was President Richard Nixon quick fix to the dramatic growth on drug use and dealing. Decades later, maybe sooner, it has come to light that this mandatory sentencing mostly affected African American Men. For example, powder cocaine versus crack cocaine, were said to be two different drugs and crack cocaine dealers would serve a mandatory sentencing if in possession of such.…

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    rather be confined to set procedures and guidelines set forth in local, state, and federal statutes. According to an article in the American Criminal Law Review the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 was intended to eliminate unwarranted sentencing disparity by establishing a "comprehensive and consistent statement of the Federal law of sentencing, setting forth the purposes to be served"(Hofer and Allenbaugh 39). The journal goes on to explain that with the new law came a new ideology for imposing…

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    Law Journal article titled, “Mandatory Sentencing and Racial Disparity: Assessing the Role of Prosecutors and the Effects of Booker,” by Sonja Starr and M. Marit Rehavi. In the Supreme Court case, United States v. Booker, regarding sentencing guidelines, a federal district court judge enhanced Booker’s sentence based on the facts the judge determined. Booker appealed the enhancement as in violation of his Sixth Amendment rights. In another case, according to sentencing guidelines. Because of…

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    Gun Control Essay

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    suggestions should be based on data rather than emotional uproars. Public policies that are an end result of emotion rather than research have contributed enormously to mass incarceration in the United States. As per Beckett and Sasson (2000), mandatory minimums and the three strikes laws have…

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    Belonging to the development of the world, the number of offenders is increasing rapidly, and it leads to the short of slots in prison. As a result, “The Smarter Sentence Act” passed in 2015 reduces the mandatory minium sentence for those convicted of federal drug offenses in order to address the problems associated with mass incarceration and keeping nonviolent offenders out of prison. In my point of view, I totally disagree with this statement for two reasons. First, it is dangerous for…

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    Fair Sentencing Case Study

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    The United States NY Federal drug sentencing guidelines compel disproportionately harsh sentences with a primary focus on racial disparity among poor communities. Drug crimes account for 51% of the offenses in federal prison and of the 195,933 federal inmates 69.7% of those individuals are African Americans and Hispanics. That is nearly three quarters of the total prison population. This exhibits the racial disparity within the prison system. Studies from Rehavi of the University of British…

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    1978 to 2014, our prison population has risen 408%, partially as a result of mandatory sentencing that came about during the "War on Drugs." Mandatory minimum sentences take away the freedom of judges in sentencing, who are bound by statute to place the convicted behind bars. Existing statutes don’t allow judges to hand down alternative punishments, nor give them the option to prescribe treatment instead. Mandatory sentencing and increased punishment were enacted when the United States Congress…

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