Requiring judges to impose certain sentences regardless of the facts of the case or the circumstances of the defendants impedes rather than improves justiceToo often we forget that our judicial branch is supposed to be a criminal justice system,not a criminal sentencing system: sometimes convictions do not fill to be made and sometimes punishments do not fill to be severe (depending on the specific facts of the case) in order to achieve justice. But, though we might be moving absent from the War on Drugs, and it seems that we will continue our war on justice.
On Thursday,the US Senate announced the results of its agreement on a comprehensive reform bill called the Criminal Justice Reform and Corrections Act of 2015. Despite its name, and the growing consensus that such provisions impede rather than improve justice, or the bill allows many mandatory minimum sentences to remain in effect – and even adds mandatory minimums for other crimes. But the backstory of a crime can contain complexities,and mandatory minimums don’t allow sentences to be tailored to the circumstances of the situation.
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Source: theguardian.com