the mandatory minimum crap.

Sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and spouses who are shown preferential treatment.

There are two "justice" systems in this world. One for the politically connected and one for everyone else.

However, after reading this article which clearly states that there are no exceptions to the mandatory sentences, I wonder how the elite get away. Is it plea bargaining so that it never goes before a judge?

Sentencing, there is no hard rules demanding that someone gets charged with a crime.

Let's take North Carolina as an example. If you are caught with 28 to 200 grams of cocaine, it qualifies as posession with intent to distribute which is a class H felony that carries 70 to 84 months in jail with a $50,000 fine.

Less than 28 grams is posession only, a Class 1 felony, and carries UP TO 6 months in jail.

Let's say that you get caught with 50 grams, it's up to the prosecutor to decide which you get charged with.

With one you MAY get 6 months in jail, with the other you WILL get 5 years.

Thanks for adding that.

One for the haves, one for the white have nots, then one for everyone else.

... the judge spouts to absolve himself from his own criminal
culpability in sentencing.

thrown out, tied up in court for years or a plea deal before it ever gets to trial.

I think the judge in this article would change that in a heart-beat if he could.

OWN America. What they haven't bought they have stolen. Politicians are easy to bribe. That is why they desperately want the job, money. Most of the country don't even realize how corrupt our justice and prison system really is.

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A multiple offender ,he will not receive any kind of manditory sentence. Rich white people dont go to jail for drugs. This madness is costing us billions. While our roads are a total mess, and because of that our cars are all broken. The war on drugs is a complete fail. And the right wing message machine keeps people blaming the poor. The war on drugs is actually a war on poor people. And as more and more people fall into poverty our prison population keeps growing.

We are seeing the results of corruption and bribery at the highest levels of our elected government. Crime was high in the 80's, we were told by the corporate media machine. It was all the drug addicts, we were told, raping and pillaging frightened Americans. Let's lock up everybody, and things are bound to change.

Things have changed alright. Our justice system is more unjust than ever, while the lawmakers who set it all up are comfortably retired on their millions, or still in business.

that is very true.