MINIMUM MANDATORY SENTENCING LAWS RUIN LIVES, REPEAL THEM.

The American criminal justice system has much harsher prison sentences than other comparable countries. In America, drug offenders are two times as likely to go to jail than in Britain. In addition, after sentencing, three times as many Americans stay in jail for more than ten years. Average jail time for non-violent crimes in the US is much higher than in comparable countries like Britain. For example, in the US, burglars were jailed for three times as long as those in Britain, two times as long for rape, and 1.5 times as long for murder. A robber in the US is expected to spend almost 45 months in jail (twice as long as in Canada). One of the causes for this are laws such as minimum mandatory sentencing and three-strikes you're out laws. Minimum mandatory sentencing is a series of feder