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Should there be mandatory minimum sentences for rape? | The Tylt
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?
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People are surprised that there isn't already an airtight mandatory minimum sentence for rape. So many other crimes have one.
Why is there a mandatory minimum sentence for drugs but not a mandatory minimum sentence for rape?
— HNH (@Catf1sh) August 30, 2016
I don't get how a rape conviction doesn't carry a mandatory minimum prison sentence. https://t.co/CtUcRovOSt
— YesBiscuit (@YesBiscuit) August 23, 2016
@HuffingtonPost The punishment in this case is reprehensible. Need mandatory jail sentence laws for rape with sexual offender status.
— Adele (@Contented2851) August 11, 2016
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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.
1) I'm torn on mandatory sentences; as @popehat will tell you, they disproportionately impact minorities & poor. https://t.co/xuec6NdE2c
— Katherine Keller (@sequentialkady) August 30, 2016
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2) Entitled white dude-bros will feel their impact the least. OTOH, *something* had to be done & a brief jail term for rape is injustice
— Katherine Keller (@sequentialkady) August 30, 2016
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ICYMI, here's why a new mandatory minimum for sexual assault is a bad idea. Hope Gov won't sign, but sure he will https://t.co/v08kVXqCDr
— Alexandra Brodsky (@azbrodsky) August 30, 2016
Some are saying that this might be one case where mandatory minimum sentences are actually warranted.
@fiddiddler @NPR False binary. You can stop over-criminalizing things that don't make sense, and start properly criminalizing things that do
— Alejandra Cervantes (@alejcerv) August 30, 2016
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Others are pointing out that the punishment for sexual already extends long after the jail cell.
Brock Turner's jail sentence was incredibly lenient, but he did not get off easy. He'll be on the sex offender registry for life.
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) August 30, 2016
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Of course Turner's race and privilege gained him an unfair advantage. Of course the system treats black defendants worse, and that's wrong.
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) August 30, 2016
