1,250 Drug Prisoners Freed in Michigan
By Jeralyn, Section Inmates and Prisons
Posted on Thu Jan 30, 2003 at 04:02:30 PM EST
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Posted on Thu Jan 30, 2003 at 04:02:30 PM EST
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1,250 first-time drug prisoners have been freed from jail in Michigan due to the state's repeal of its draconian mandatory minimum sentencing law. "The Legislature last month repealed Michigan's controversial 1973 drug sentencing law that forced judges to impose long mandatory minimum sentences based on the quantity of drugs involved in the crime. The crackdown was aimed at drug kingpins, but also imprisoned were hundreds of first-time non-violent offenders.... Many received longer prison terms than violent career criminals."
For more details on this, see our prior post here, and Families Against Mandatory Minimums ( FAMM).
The repeal will save Michigan $41 Million.
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