Mandatory minimum penalties continue to have a significant impact on the size and composition of the federal prison population
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" As of September 30, 2016, 49.1 percent of federal inmates were drug offenders.
" Among drug offenders in federal prison as of September 30, 2016, almost three-quarters (72.3%) were convicted of an offense carrying a mandatory minimum penalty, and more than half (50.4%) remained subject to that penalty at sentencing."
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"Mandatory Minimum Penalties for Drug Offenses in the Federal Criminal Justice System," US Sentencing Commission, October 2017, p. 4.
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