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Excerpt from Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session
Here was a tough prosecutor from the Western District of Penn sylvania and whose prosecutorial bent was well known to everyone in the world who opposed them. Why? He said I cannot support those unless we accompany them with additional prison space. And he insisted, and we acquiesced, that we would run together on a double track mandatory sentences with the additional space in the Commonwealth to take care of what - the expected prison load that that would create.
My point in stating this to you is this. That I will not very easily succumb to the entreaties of the Attorney General or anyone else, our present Attorney General, that because our prison situation is so critical that we ought to by bits and pieces begin to abandon our mandatory sentencing structure. Rather we ought to be seeing what the Sentencing Commission can do within the system, and where and if necessary to go on the line as I did then and will do again to accord our society additional prison space to get these peo ple out of the way, if that is going to be the result of our continued effort to fight crime.
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