‘It Tears Families Apart’: Lawmakers Nationwide Are Moving to End Mandatory Sentencing Repealing state and federal mandatory minimums will help address the mass incarceration crisis, advocates hope. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Apr 15, 2021
Bloomberg’s Stop-and-Frisk Philosophy Also Informs the Rest of His Work on Gun Violence Prevention We need to be more critical of the former New York mayor’s outsize influence on the gun control movement. Alex Clavering Mar 03, 2020
Pennsylvania Mandatory Minimum Bill Is Unlikely to Reduce Gun Violence, Opponents Say State Representative Todd Stephens has introduced a bill to impose a five-year minimum prison sentence for illegally possessing a firearm, but the governor, advocates, and others say it’s the wrong approach. Joshua Vaughn Jan 23, 2020
Man Sentenced As ‘Career Criminal’ Gets His First Chance At Freedom In 48 Years Despite a 2015 Supreme Court ruling limiting the mandatory minimum law, few people are seeing relief. Levi Pulkkinen Sep 11, 2018
Federal judge calls Attorney General’s mandatory sentencing decision ‘bad policy’ He cites “many, many horror stories.” Carimah Townes Aug 23, 2017
American Bar Association endorses multiple criminal justice reform proposals Larry Hannan Aug 18, 2017
Baltimore lawmakers are eyeing potentially disastrous mandatory minimum sentences Carimah Townes Jul 21, 2017
