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Orange Is the New Black
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- I was in a whole new world, one where "conspiracy charges" and "mandatory minimum sentencing" would determine my fate.†
p. 22.7 *
- In the United States mandatory minimum sentencing was a critical part of the late-twentieth-century "War on Drugs."†
p. 23.1
- Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the primary reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million people, a nearly 300 percent increase.†
p. 23.3
- The mandatory GED program had been temporarily shut down.†
p. 88.2
- A lack of priors and a history of general good conduct didn't matter at all—federal mandatory minimums dictated sentences, and if you were pleading guilty (the vast majority of us did), the only person with real leeway in determining what kind of time you would do was your prosecutor, not your judge.†
p. 134.2
- The case managers were tasked with managing the completion of our sentences, which meant recalculating our "good time" (we were supposed to serve only 85 percent of our sentences if we earned good time), collecting fines from our inmate accounts (if you couldn't pay fines, you wouldn't get good time), and assigning our "program" activity, including mandatory reentry classes.†
p. 157.4
- But it was upsetting to think about what role the millions of Americans who were former prisoners might play in the next society—I knew from the Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) newsletters (which many prisoners received) that over 600,000 returned home from prison every year.†
p. 163.1
- I SAW on the callout that I was scheduled to spend my afternoon in a mandatory prerelease class on housing, and my blood pressure started to rise.†
p. 249.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(mandatory as in: it is mandatory) required by rule or law
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely and historically, mandatory can refer to a League of Nations country that holds a mandate over a territory.