Unjust sentences expect them to rise with dipshit Trump

[gabeana]

in office,
very interesting article, judges hands are tied on federal mandatory sentences

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/02/politics/mandatory-minimum-sentencing-sessions/index.html

Bennett thinks this approach is unjust. "I basically couldn't live with myself if I didn't speak out," he says, standing in the center of his courtroom only hours after sentencing Rice. "I'm compelled to talk about it because I think it's one of the gravest injustices in the history of America."

[gabeana]

1. bump this up

because it is really important especially with the overcrowding of the prison system that makes a fortune

[Wounded Bear]

2. AG Sessions has already said this...

he wants to go back to charging the maximum crime and push for maximum sentences, especially on drug crimes.

[former9thward]

3. The OP is wrong on two points.

1) the law has not changed under Trump. However unjust mandatory minimums may be they have been around for years.

2) Almost all (95%) of criminal sentences come from state courts not federal. Trump or Sessions or Obama or Congress have nothing to do with state sentencing.

[gabeana]

4. the article and in the OP

clearly states federal courts and their mandatory sentencing

the article shows how the judges are fed up sending non violent criminal away for long federal prison terms and how Obama wanted reform in the system, now with Trump in charge that is out the window

[former9thward]

5. The article tried to imply that something had just happened.

It didn't. And at the federal level the number of criminal prosecutions is minimal compared to the states. No reform at the federal level will help the vast majority of cases.