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      "id": 102590,
      "date": "2001-01-11",
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      "title": "Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Statutes: An Overview of Legislation in the 106th Congress",
      "summary": "Federal mandatory minimum sentencing statutes (mandatory minimums) demand that execution\nor\nincarceration follow criminal conviction. They cover drug dealing, murdering federal officials, and\nusing a gun to commit a federal crime. They circumscribe judicial sentencing discretion. They have\nbeen criticized as unthinkingly harsh and incompatible with a rational sentencing guideline system;\nyet they have also been embraced as hallmarks of truth in sentence and a certain means of\nincapacitating the criminally dangerous. Among the bills introduced in the 106th Congress, some\nwould have created new mandatory minimums, several would have enlarged existing mandatory\nminimums, others would have eliminated existing mandatory minimums, and some would have\nadjusted existing mandatory minimums in other ways. The only proposed mandatory minimum\nenacted came in the form of a piggyback statute which extended, to overseas misconduct by military\ndependents and contractors, the pre-existing mandatory minimums applicable in the special maritime\nand territorial jurisdiction of the United States, 18 U.S.C.  3261.",
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