Sentences with phrase «drug offenders»

He gave judges additional discretion for low - level drug offenders.

On Monday, the NFL officially endorsed the Grassley - Durbin criminal reform bill, which seeks to «recalibrate prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, target violent and career criminals, and save taxpayer dollars.»

In early October Ms. McMillan joined with Howie Hawkins and Ramon Jimenez at a press conference on clemency for non-violent drug offenders and the legalization of marijuana.

«He's such a poster child for our excessive punishments of drug offenders during the past 30 years,» she added.

An article that ran on Saturday, June 19, 2010 as part of the series examined the city's Drug Treatment Court that works to divert small - time drug offenders away from jail and into addiction treatment programs:

The report details how Congress created mandatory minimum prison sentences for drug offenders in 1951 and repealed them in 1970 because the laws failed to stop drug abuse, addiction and trafficking.

The ongoing investigation into her work — which could upend thousands of drug convictions — has already led to the closing of the lab, the release of hundreds of convicted drug offenders, and the termination of one lab official and resignation of another.

-- Championing of restoration of judicial discretion for low - level, nonviolent drug offenders during the debate over Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

For Alice Marie Johnson, a 62 - year - old nonviolent drug offender serving a life sentence without parole.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Akwa Ibom Command, said on Sunday that it arrested 184 suspected drug offenders between January and July.

«We need clemency for non violent drug offenders in New York State,» Hawkins said.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» wide - ranging new crackdown on drug offenders could exacerbate one of America's most persistent public health tragedies: the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic that's been ravaging the country and killed nearly 35,000 Americans in 2015 alone.

Indonesia has recently executed drug offenders in plain view of the world, including members of the Bali Nine.

One of these is Iran, which may execute more drug offenders than any other country (over 300 people in 2014).

She sponsored a bill named for slain NYPD Officer Randolph Holder that would keep repeat drug offenders out of drug rehabs and in jails.

For example, Judge Steve Alm in Hawaii has been pioneering the idea of «swift and certain» sentencing to deal with drug offenders.

In defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treated.

It's the culmination of a second - term effort to remedy consequences of decades of onerous sentencing requirements that Obama's said put tens of thousands of drug offenders behind bars for too long.

Punishing drug offenders became more important than getting them off drugs.

But reform of the Rockefeller drug laws has left few drug offenders serving long sentences, David said, and the approach to clemency review now being developed would be a «new situation.»

«The Sentencing Council's guideline brings sentencing guidance together for the first time to help ensure consistent and proportionate sentencing and provide effective guidance for sentencers and clear information for victims, witnesses and the public on how drug offenders are sentenced.»

Between 1990 and 1996, she was Lead Prosecutor of Narcotics and Psychotropic Drug Offenders at the Miscellaneous Offences Tribunal (MOT), Lagos, and within that period, rose from the rank of Senior Legal Officer to Assistant Chief Legal Officer.

Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis speaks Thursday about her bill to prohibit repeat criminal drug offenders from attending treatment programs instead of going to jail.

The number of people with a drug problem entering prison has climbed steeply since the mid-1980s: drug offenders increased by 20 per cent per year between 1986 and 1990.

That's an important point, and it's why Waldman, a former defense attorney who represented drug offenders, discontinued her microdosing: She was terrified of getting arrested («There's no one as paranoid as a public defender,» she told The New York Times).

The growing interest in highly regimented, physically challenging incarceration programs for youthful drug offenders has prompted concern among juvenile - justice advocates across the nation.

«Even if we released all nonviolent drug offenders right this second,» as so many reformers have suggested doing, he says, «the United States would continue to incarcerate over 1.7 million people, which is four times higher than the rate in other Western nations.»

In 2015, President Obama began a process to commute the sentences of around 6,000 federal drug offenders.

15 - Hour Drug Offender Courses - Adult Class & Driving Lessons Includes Written Test - Home Video - State Required Course - 18 - 24 Years Olds - Teen Driver's Ed - Ticket Dismissal Class - Van Pick Up From High Schools

Mental health centres and methadone clinics will require more counselors, and treatment programs will expand as drug offenders seek counseling in greater numbers than in the past.

In addition, as prisons continue to face overcrowding, judges are ordering drug offenders to complete rehabilitation programs as alternatives to incarceration; these decisions are naturally heightening the demand for substance abuse counselors.

Recognizing the need for an alternative to prosecution and incarceration for first time drug offenders, the Sixteenth Circuit has implemented several Drug Court Programs.

While his Democratic predecessor Eric Holder told federal prosecutors to avoid seeking long mandatory minimum sentences when charging some lower - level drug offenders, for example, Sessions issued an order demanding the opposite, telling them to pursue the most serious charges possible against most suspects.

The bill's purpose is to «recalibrate prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, target violent and career criminals, and save taxpayer dollars.»

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Ogun Command said on Monday that no fewer than 105 suspected drug offenders were arrested in the state between...

Andrew Cuomo says now the prison population is shrinking, due to changing demographics, and reform of the Rockefeller Drug laws, which has led to fewer non violent drug offenders being incarcerated.

A prison sentence of one day for a crime that Congress and the American public consider grave, in circumstances that enhance the gravity (we refer to the character of some of the images), committed by a convicted drug offender, does not give due weight to the «nature and circumstances of the offense» and the «history and characteristics of the defendant.»

These include automatic expungence of the records of drug offenders, reinvestment of marijuana - related taxes back into the community, allowance for home growers to grow and consume their weed products, and a fair industry that removes arbitrary caps and restrictions on those trying to obtain marijuana licenses, he said.

For one, drug offenders have a more than 75 % recidivism rate within five years of their release.

While the White House has called for legislation on programs to help prisoners prepare for life after release, it has not mentioned other reforms such as changing minimum sentences for drug offenders.

Those who committed burglary — generally swiping $ 300 or less — got 55.6 months; car thieves, 38 months; and first - time drug offenders, 64.9 months.

During the war on drugs, lengthy mandatory minimum sentences became standard for drug offenders.

«For decades, the failed War on Drugs has locked up millions of nonviolent drug offenders — especially for marijuana - related offenses — at an incredible cost of lost human potential, torn apart families and communities, and taxpayer dollars,» Booker wrote in a Facebook post.

They all had one thing in common: All were nonviolent drug offenders.