Mandatory minimum sentences, widely associated with the Rockefeller Drug Laws in New York, helped launch the mass incarceration era of the 1970s and 80s. While specific Rockefeller laws have been repealed, mandatory minimums are still a significant part of our criminal justice landscape. In a recent study, we estimated that, in 2019, half of people convicted of a felony in New York City were subject to a mandatory minimum prison sentence. With legislation now pending in Albany, New York has an opportunity to put this vestige of our ineffectively draconian sentencing laws in the rearview mirror.
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The unemployment rate for Black New Yorkers rose to 12.2 percent in the first quarter of the year, while the white unemployment rate dropped to 1.3 percent, a new report says.