Mandatory sentencing requires that offenders serve a predefined term of imprisonment for certain crimes, commonly serious or violent offenses. Judges are...

States Federal Sentencing Guidelines are rules published by the U.S. Sentencing Commission that set out a uniform policy for sentencing individuals and...

there is no parole in the federal system. Life or any lesser sentence of years, with a mandatory minimum of dismissal or dishonorable discharge. For the first...

Families Against Mandatory Minimums, famm.org, accessed October 24, 2010. "U.S. Sentencing Commission Votes to Make Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Reforms Retroactive"...

consideration prior offenses when sentencing. However, there is a more recent history of mandatory prison sentences for repeat offenders. For example...

justia.com. Retrieved August 2, 2012. "Mandatory life without parole for juveniles: A state-by-state look at sentencing". The Washington times. Associated...

the crime. Habitual offender laws may provide for mandatory sentencing—in which a minimum sentence must be imposed, or may allow judicial discretion in...

recent cases require an examination of the maximum sentence possible under the state's mandatory sentencing guidelines."); see also Matter of Cota, 23 I&N...

A custodial sentence is a judicial sentence, imposing a punishment consisting of mandatory custody of the convict, either in prison or in some other closed...

offense and dropping the charges carrying mandatory minimum sentences. Mandatory sentencing laws have been particularly popular among legislators in the...