Thank you very much.
It's interesting that about 25 U.S. states now have repealed or turned back from the mandatory minimum laws--and you'd think we would have learned from that--because of distortion and costs and high rates of incarceration.
I like the fact that, Ms. Sampson, you brought out the Australian situation of disempowered groups being affected and the studies saying that.
I know that I've looked up a 1998 national law journal, which says that in the States, mandatory minimum sentences are felt most harshly by African Americans, and in that part of the study it even differentiated that African American women are eight times more likely than European American women of being charged and convicted and sentenced under the mandatory minimum laws. Is that the same study you're referring to?