Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses serve to increase the number of people in prison for drug crimes by:
A) requiring that people who are convicted of relatively minor drug offenses be given very long sentences.
B) giving judges the flexibility to give very long sentences to minor drug offenders if the judges feel the sentence is appropriate.
C) making sentences so short people are unafraid to violate drug laws.
D) going easy on people convicted for their first crime but giving really long sentences for people who are convicted for a second crime
Ans: A) requiring that people who are convicted of relatively minor drug offenses be given very long sentences.
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