I sometimes drive ... by the prison where he's held, and I think, 'That wasn't the right thing to do, and the system forced me to do it.'

Paul Cassell, a former federal judge, who because of mandatory minimum sentencing laws, sentenced a man to prison for 55 years with no chance of parole for multiple nonviolent drug deals involving marijuana. According to Cassell, the man would have only gotten 20 years on terrorism charges.