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MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES INCREASE INJUSTICE. PERIOD.

Posted bywpengine 21 August 2017

News item: The federal Justice Department has hired a pollster to sound out Canadians on their appetite for criminal sentencing reform – a political “testing of the waters,” as it were.

Source: Globe editorial: You don’t need a poll to know mandatory minimum sentences are bad

Posted bywpengine21 August 2017Posted inUncategorized

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