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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
~Kurt Vonnegut
Saturday, December 14, 2002

Michigan Legislature Repeals Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences

Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation (FAMM Foundation)
LANSING, Mich. – A bipartisan majority of the Michigan Senate today passed a historic package of three sentencing reform bills – HB 5394 (H-3), HB 5395 (H-2) and HB 6510 (H-1) – that eliminate most of the state’s Draconian mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. The reform allows judges to impose sentences based on a range of factors in each case, rather than solely drug weight, and replaces lifetime probation for the lowest-level offenders with a five-year probationary period. It also permits earlier parole for some prisoners, at the discretion of the parole board. Governor John Engler is expected to sign the bills
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