'Mandatory Minimum' Sentences to End for Many Drug Offenders

Published August 12, 2013

'Mandatory minimum' sentences to end for many drug offenders

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SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors will no longer seek long, "mandatory minimum" sentences for many low-level, nonviolent drug offenders, under a major shift in policy aimed at turning around decades of explosive growth in the federal prison …
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'Glee's' Lea Michele Dedicates Teen Choice Win to Cory Monteith (Video)

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"I just wanted to be here today to personally thank all of you and tell everyone out there how much all of your love and support has meant to me over these very past difficult few weeks," an emotional Michele said from the stage at the Gibson …
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OxyContin maker closely guards its list of suspect doctors

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Over the last decade, the maker of the potent painkiller OxyContin has compiled a database of hundreds of doctors suspected of recklessly prescribing its pills to addicts and drug dealers, but has done little to alert law enforcement or medical …
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