Joe Biden, who once supported “tough-on-crime” laws in the Senate, wants to end mandatory minimum sentences
The Democratic presidential candidate’s plan would attempt to eliminate racial, gender and income-based disparities in the criminal justice system, offer states billions of dollars in incentives to end mandatory-minimum sentences for nonviolent crimes and devote $1 billion annually.
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