Topic: Mandatory sentences

Massachusetts proposes option to expunge marijuana possession records

• NFL uses its muscle to endorse criminal justice legislation
• In spite of Jeff Sessions, criminal justice reform still moving forward
• Over 5% of all arrests in U.S. are for weed
• Sessions isn’t making America safer. He might be making it more dangerous
• Former acting AG Sally Yates: Sessions’ drug policy unjust, dangerous
• Jeff Sessions’ new war on drugs won’t be any more effective than the old one
• Jeff Sessions’ drug policies will expand black market, not reduce crime
• Sessions: Softened approach to drug enforcement led to surge in drug abuse and violent crime
• America’s mass incarceration problem in 5 charts — or, why Sessions shouldn’t bring back mandatory minimums
• It took the Trump Administration just a month to turn Obama-era drug policy on its head
• Bipartisan legislation seeks to undermine Sessions’ sentencing memo
• This judge and prosecutor warn of “great suffering” with Sessions’ return to mandatory minimum sentences
• Sessions overturns Holder memo, returns to harshest drug sentencing policy
• Sessions-driven DOJ memo will likely revive aggressive prosecution, mandatory minimum sentences
• Ex-judge urges Obama to commute harsh sentence he was forced to give
• Missouri man Jeff Mizanskey, serving life sentence for pot, ‘is coming home’
• U.S. weighs clemency for some nonviolent federal inmates with drug-related convictions