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Petty Drug Criminals Fill BOP
Loaded on May 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1994, page 11
Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a study to determine if the growing use of mandatory minimum sentences was causing overcrowding in the federal prison system. The study, produced by former Deputy Attorney General Philip Heyman, the BOP and selected U.S. Attorneys, found that 16,316 or 21.5% of federal prisoners have ...
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