Seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court held federal sentencing guidelines are only advisory and not mandatory, some in Congress are pushing to make sentencing uniform through mandatory prison terms. This piece from NPR.org provides an interesting discussion of the issue and highlights the disparity among sentences under the current system.
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