Was the implementation of mandatory minimum sentencing useful? No, say clear and loud two magistrates in the report published on 9 April on the site of the Terra Nova think-tank. The question of the effectiveness of these mandatory minimum sentences arises even more acutely that it can be obliterated from the penal code. This repeal is on the menu of the penal reform project, whose review should begin before the summer. Suppression of mandatory minimum sentencing, advocated by the experts of the consensus conference, is one of the 76 proposals of the report devoted to “means to combat prison overcrowding” and was filed in January.
Created by the law of August 10, 2007, strengthening the fight against recidivism, mandatory minimum sentencing should be applied from the first recurrence to punishable offences with at least three years in prison. Since the Loppsi Bill 2 March 14, 2011, it also affects the first time offenders for certain premeditated offences (for example, an armed robbery with violence). Continue reading “Essay on Mandatory Minimum Sentencing”