Delaware Cuts Mandatory Prison Terms
If only all states had this much sense....
Delaware has passed a bill that reduces the mandatory minimum sentences in some drug crimes in order to make more room for violent offenders. After passing in the Delaware House, the bill passed the Senate by a vote of 20 to 1.
The bill is a compromise among the Attorney General's Office, the state's Sentencing Accountability Commission and Stand Up for What's Right and Just, a citizens group dedicated to criminal justice reform.
Among the bill's most controversial provisions in the Senate was language that cuts the minimum mandatory sentence for cocaine trafficking from three years to two years, and increasing the amount of the drug needed to trigger the sentence from 5 grams to 10 grams.
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