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Budget Problems Have Florida Reconsidering Mandatory Minimums

By Jeff Gore
Orlando Weekly | April 6, 2011
Despite the fact that some judges complain that mandatory minimums reduce their ability to use discretion in sentencing, making them drones serving the system, the state's mandatory minimums for drug crimes remained unchallenged for more than 30 years. Recently though, the state's budget has cast a light on Florida's prison spending, which has gone up along with its jail population.
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Tags: war on drugs, Florida, incarceration, crime, mandatory minimums, state budgets

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