Testimony on Mandatory Minimums

Friends:


Marc Mauer, Executive Director of The Sentencing Project, testifies Tuesday, June
26, 2007 on the issue of Mandatory Minumum Sentencing before the House Judiciary
Subcommitee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.


Mauer's testimony [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=lxvqqbcab.0.yarwqbcab.fed4i7n6.8338&ts=S0257&p=http%3A%2F%2Fsentencingproject.org%2FAdmin%2FDocuments%2Fpublications%2Fsl_testimony_summer07.pdf]
focuses on the experience with the current generation of mandatory sentencing policies
in the federal system, the vast majority of which have been applied to drug offenses,
and the lessons we should learn from that in order to develop more effective public
policy. The main themes he will address include:


* Mandatory sentencing policies have been largely based on false premises, and are
particularly unwise in the federal system;
* Mandatory penalties in the federal system have not proven to achieve their objectives;
and
* A variety of policy initiatives could be enacted that would result in more fair
and effective sentencing, and would produce better public safety results.

Click here [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=lxvqqbcab.0.cbrwqbcab.fed4i7n6.8338&ts=S0257&p=http%3A%2F%2Fsentencingproject.org%2FPublicationDetails.aspx%3FPublicationID%3D592]
to view his testimony.
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