FAMM testifies in Mass., releases new report, “Voices for Reform,” with essays by Delahunt, Gertner, Cabral, Ziemian and others

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDate: September 20, 2011Contact: Monica Pratt Raffanel, (202) 621-5044 or Barbara Dougan, (617) 543-0878BOSTON:  Today Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) will testify before the legislature’s Judiciary Committee in support of bills to reform or repeal harsh “one size fits all” mandatory minimum sentencing laws for drug offenses.Barbara J. Dougan, director of FAMM’s Massachusetts project, said, “Our prisons are overcrowded with nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom are serving disproportionately long sentences.  Courts must be allowed to impose