Bobby Scott actually said...

Mandatory minimum sentences have been studied and have been shown to disrupt normal intelligent sentencing processes, waste the taxpayers' m...

To increase the risk, you have to increase the investigation and prosecution.

I would hope that in order to get some of these mandatory minimums off the books, the first thing we have to do is stop passing new ones.

The point of eliminating a mandatory minimum is it eliminates the requirement that the judge mindlessly impose a simple-minded sentence that...