Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences: One Year After the Governor's Crime Bill
Group: Massachusetts Department of Correction
URL: http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/doc/research-reports/briefs-stats-bulletins/mando-drug-b...
Description
On August 2, 2012, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed into law new legislation: Chapter 192 of the Acts of 2012 (“Chapter 192”), colloquially known as the Governor’s Crime Bill. The central aim of this legislation was to reduce the number of non-violent drug offenders incarcerated by reducing the lengthy mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenders while concurrently implementing more punitive sentencing practices for habitual high-risk violent offenders.
Tags
courts, sentencing, drugs, mandatory minimums
Other Attributes
- Sub-location
- Statewide
- Categories
- Sectors (Govt, Non-Profit, etc)
- Gov't
- Formats
- Location in resource
- N/A
- Internet Available?
- Yes
- Has population data?
- No
- Mappable?
- No
- Updated?
- No
- Frequency
- N/A
- Year(s) of Publication
- 2014
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