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Support or opposition to eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders, asked by CES in 2020 and 2022 with nearly identical wording.
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Latest: 65% answered “Support” in CES: End mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders, 2022.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Eliminate mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders | Eliminate mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders.] Caveat: Item text truncated ('non-violent drug') but same meaning as 2022 | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: End mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders | End mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders] Caveat: Full wording 'non-violent drug offenders'; same binary scale as 2020 | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |