'Safety valve' to avoid mandatory sentences

Finally!  Lawmakers should make laws and let judges judge; they should not hamstring or box-in judges. Our federal prisons are bulging with non-violent drug offenders because of stupid mandatory sentencing rules that make judges irrelevant in the process.

Today Rand Paul and Pat Leahy Introduced a Bill to Fix Our Atrocious Federal Mandatory Minimum Laws

By Mike Riggs

March 20, 2013 | Reason

URL: http://reason.com/blog/2013/03/20/rand-paul-and-pat-leahy-introduce-a-bill