Discuss the state and federal mandatory minimums.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. The mandatory minimum movement started in the early 1970s in New York, which was experiencing a wave of heroin-related crime. Governor Nelson Rockefeller pushed through a series of mandatory drug sentences, the most draconian being a fifteen-years-to-life punishment for anyone convicted of possessing four ounces of any illegal narcotic other than marijuana. Today, nearly every state has mandatory sentencing laws, most related to crimes involving the sale or possession of illegal drugs.The federal government passed its Anti-Drug Abuse Act in the mid-1980s, in response to the cocaine overdose death of a well-known basketball player named Len Bias. Federal mandatory minimums are guided by a set of triggers based on the amount of drugs involved, the offender's criminal history, and many other attendant circumstances. These triggers include selling drugs to someone under twenty-one years of age, using a minor as part of drug operations, and carrying a firearm during the drug-related crime.
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a. Intensive Supervision Prisons. b. Instituted Supervised Punishment. c. Intensive Supervision Probation. d. Institutionally Supervised Prisons.
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a. Racial bias b. Religious bias c. Bias based on marital status d. Bias based on ethnicity/national origin.
Which of the following is not a mission of community corrections?
a. Punish c. Incapacitate offenders b. Protect public safety d. Rehabilitate offenders
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A. An assessment could be done within the available timeframe and funding. B. There is an issue in how clients are receiving the intervention. C. The program is successful. D. There is a need for this type of program.