FAMM Applauds Mandatory Minimum Reforms in Legislature’s Sentencing Bill

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDate: July 19, 2012Contact: Monica Pratt Raffanel, media@famm.org BOSTON:  Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) applauds the reforms to mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws that are part of the sentencing bill passed by the House on July 18 and by the Senate today.  The bill, H.4286, includes reforms that FAMM has supported for years:  reforming the state’s “school zone” law and making some drug offenders now in prison eligible for the same reentry opportunities – parole, work release and earned good time – that are available to most other prisoners.