Cuomo was an old-fashioned liberal who opposed mandatory-minimum drug sentences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prison-Industrial Complex] Reference

Prosecutors were given the authority to decide whether a mandatory-minimum sentence applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Reefer Madness] Reference

Judiciary Committee in Pennsylvania -- and an outspoken critic of mandatory-minimum sentences.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Reefer Madness] Reference

The mandatory-minimum provisions were written and enacted in a matter of weeks without a single public hearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Reefer Madness] Reference

More important, it established mandatory-minimum sentences, transferring power from federal judges to prosecutors.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Reefer Madness] Reference

Other states eventually followed New York's example, enacting strict mandatory-minimum sentences for drug offenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prison-Industrial Complex] Reference

On the contrary, Congress voted decisively in 1970 to eliminate almost all federal mandatory-minimum sentences for drug offenders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prison-Industrial Complex] Reference

N 1988 State Senator Stewart J. Greenleaf wrote the bill that made tough mandatory-minimum drug sentences part of Pennsylvania law.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Reefer Madness] Reference

Prison cells across the country are filled with nonviolent drug offenders whose mandatory-minimum sentences do not allow for parole.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Reefer Madness] Reference

At the U.S. attorney's discretion, he faced a possible mandatory-minimum sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reefer Madness] Reference

When Melissa Mummert was a seminarian, she began making a documentary film about the impact of mandatory-minimum prison sentences on women and their children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: January 2008 Archives] Reference

Part Two, next month, will describe the disposition of the Young case and the perverse consequences of a legal regime that decrees mandatory-minimum sentences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reefer Madness] Reference

In adopting mandatory-minimum sentences, Pennsylvania had simply followed the federal government's lead, aiming to give long prison terms to major drug dealers.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Reefer Madness] Reference

The process of selecting drug quantities to trigger the mandatory-minimum sentences was far from scientific, according to Sterling: "Numbers were being picked out of thin air.".    From Wordnik.com.  [More Reefer Madness] Reference

About 55% of all federal and over 20% of all state prisoners are convicted of drug-law violations with many of them serving mandatory-minimum sentences for simple possession offences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anthony Papa: Bonds, Baseball and the Drug War] Reference

The only way a defendant can be sure of avoiding a mandatory-minimum sentence under federal law is to plead guilty and give "substantial assistance" in the prosecution of someone else.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Reefer Madness] Reference

Defendants who hope to avoid a lengthy mandatory-minimum sentence but who have no valuable information to give prosecutors can now secretly buy information from vendors on the black market.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Reefer Madness] Reference

They oppose mandatory-minimum laws that force judges to send people like Nicole Richardson and Jan Warren to prison for years, with no regard for their character or the circumstances of their lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walter Cronkite: Telling the Truth About the War on Drugs] Reference

Of particular importance to Combs and Simmons, who endorsed McCall during a campaign stop in Harlem, is the candidate's urban-friendly stance on public-school funding and mandatory-minimum drug laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign '02: Puffy's Got His Back] Reference

Congress has ordered the panel that advises judges on prison terms to conduct a review of mandatory-minimum sentences, a move that could lead to a dramatic rethinking of how the U.S. incarcerates its criminals.    From Wordnik.com.  [POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: November 12, 2009] Reference

Nearly one in five state inmates are serving mandatory-minimum drug sentences.    From Wordnik.com.  [CourierPostOnline.com - News] Reference

As New York State lawmakers push for reform to "Rockefeller" mandatory-minimum drug laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [YubaNet.com] Reference

Because there was gunfire, the mandatory-minimum prison sentence the agents will serve is 10 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Hispanic - A Townhall.com user blog] Reference

Second-degree kidnapping carries a mandatory-minimum sentence of 70 months in prison under Oregon law.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

VANCOUVER - A leading expert on human trafficking says Canada could finally be taking the issue seriously with a tougher mandatory-minimum sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toronto Sun] Reference

Owing to mandatory-minimum sentences, many of those convicted are receiving stiff prison terms, even as violent criminals are released for lack of space.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

New York State is about to enact major changes in its Rockefeller drug laws, which contain some of the harshest mandatory-minimum sentences in the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Several would have had a hard time avoiding significantly longer prison terms had the mandatory-minimum bill that died in Vallario's committee three years ago become law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com] Reference

I pretty much see it i the same category as mandatory-minimum sentencing; it takes away leeway within the system to minimize, under-prosecute, or under-sentence certain kinds of crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

This report presents and marshals the empirical evidence that demonstrates New York's mandatory-minimum drug sentencing scheme has failed, utterly, to accomplish its stated objectives.    From Wordnik.com.  [the albany project - Front Page] Reference

On the other hand, the bill retains the mandatory-minimum sentences for all other accused dealers, and only about one-eighth of the state's 13,400 drug prisoners will be able to apply for reduced sentences.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

This week, New York took a decisive step toward reforming the Rockefeller Drug Laws-the notorious mandatory-minimum sentencing rules that have driven the mass incarceration of people of color over the past generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [RaceWire] Reference

Gen. Lanny Breuer said the mandatory-minimum sentencing guidelines are so inherently unfair that they have undermined trust in the country's judicial institutions, particularly among minorities who bear the brunt of the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference

It returns next to the Assembly, which in June 2008 passed a version of the bill, 49-27, that didn't include a section added last month letting state inmates now serving mandatory-minimum terms to appeal to judges for their release.    From Wordnik.com.  [CourierPostOnline.com - News] Reference

The real reason law-and-order types love mandatory-minimum sentencing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com] Reference