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Should there be mandatory minimum sentences for rape? | The Tylt
Should there be mandatory minimum sentences for rape?
California legislators passed a law to close the loophole that allowed Brock Turner to avoid a mandatory minimum sentence. “I think we need to make a clear statement to say this is unacceptable,” Assemblyman Evan Low said. Critics say that mandatory minimum sentences won’t solve anything, and this law likely would not have led to Brock Turner serving a longer sentence. Scroll to read the perspectives and vote now!
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Should there be mandatory minimum sentences for rape?
People are surprised that there isn't already an airtight mandatory minimum sentence for rape. So many other crimes have one.
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Mandatory minimums usually don't have the impact that people think they will, and they're more likely to affect people on the opposite spectrum than Brock Turner. But something must be done to change the system.
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Some are saying that this might be one case where mandatory minimum sentences are actually warranted.
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Others are pointing out that the punishment for sexual already extends long after the jail cell.
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