Mandatory Sentences & Sentencing Quotes

Manditory minimums were almost always excessive, and they made me feel unethical, even dirty.

Mandatory prison terms is easy to say, but where are we going to put people?

While I bore the titel of "Honorable Judge", I felt less than honorable and moroe like a complicit tool of an unjust system.

Disparities in sentencing often resulted from unconscious biases of judges,

Mandatory minimum sentences should be abolished.

The United States makes up 5 percent of the world’s population yet has 25% of its prison population.

I put perople in prison for too long. I had no choice.

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

The fact that the United States, with less than 5 percent of the world's population incarcerates 25% of the world's prisoners is largly due to manditory minimum sentences.