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The Facts: Sentencing Reform

Changing Fortunes or Changing Attitudes? Sentencing and Corrections Reforms in 2003 (March 2004)
Report by the VERA Institute of Justice
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Positive Trends in State-Level Sentencing and Corrections Policy (November 2003)
Report by Families Against Mandatory Minimums. Notes Delaware several times.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kennedy's Address to the American Bar Association
Justice Kennedy attacks mandatory minimum sentences and calls for reform of our nation's criminal justice system
"I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In
too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust."
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