Massachusetts Chief Justice calls for drug sentencing reform, stakeholder convening:

Addressing the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Bench-Bar Symposium, Justice Ralph Gants called for an end to mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenses and called on the state to find better ways to treat people than sending them to jail. Judge Gants said that he plans to hold a convening with judges, probation officers, prosecutors, and defense attorneys to study best practices to ensure individualized, evidence-based sentences.