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title: ""Mandatory minimums have not worked in response to the challenges…"
date: 2016-09-13
source: facebook
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# "Mandatory minimums have not worked in response to the challenges…

*September 13, 2016 · Facebook*

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[https://news.vice.com/article/a-coalition-of-feminist-groups-want-to-block-sentencing-bill-inspired-by-stanford-rape-case](https://news.vice.com/article/a-coalition-of-feminist-groups-want-to-block-sentencing-bill-inspired-by-stanford-rape-case){target="_blank"}
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\"Mandatory minimums have not worked in response to the challenges posed by drugs in our society,\" said Michelle Anderson, the president of Brooklyn College and a leading scholar of rape law. \"Mandatory minimums have not worked in response to challenges posed by other kinds of crime. There is no reason that mandatory minimums would work as a response to the real problem of sexual assault.\"
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