The Nation - News from May 22, 1986
The Justice Department endorsed proposed legislation that would provide mandatory 15-year federal prison terms for habitual criminals convicted of serious drug offenses and crimes of violence. At a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime, a Justice Department spokesman supported bills that would expand the coverage of a 1984 law that applied only to “career criminals.”
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