#127 Getting Rid of Mandatory Minimums
Criminal (In)justice
English - November 03, 2020 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 286 ratingsNews Government abuse brutality civilliberties corruption criminaljustice misconduct police policing prosecutors Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Mandatory minimum sentences helped fill prisons in the U.S., and they played a substantial role in the mass incarceration we see now. What were these sentences supposed to do, and where did they go wrong? Most importantly, how do we get rid of them?
Our guest is Kevin Ring, the President of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a Washington D.C. advocacy group that has fought mandatory minimum sentences for years.
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