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MA: Senate Bill # 884: mandatory minimum reform for people convicted of first time drug offenses

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Senate bill # 884 allows non-violent first-time drug-offenders who have mandatory minimum sentences to be considered for parole after serving 2/3 of their sentence. It is now in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Judiciary Committee awaiting referral for passage by the legislature. This will remedy an injustice caused by the current mandatory minimum sentencing law, which takes away the consideration of mitigating circumstances a judge might normally consider. I would greatly appreciate your help in supporting this bill as I believe that it will enable persons who have shown a sincere effort to reform themselves in prison to get a second chance at a life once broken but now restored. Please call your State Representative and Senator and tell them you favor Senate Bill 884 be taken out of committee and be referred favorably to be enacted by the legislature.continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).

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