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Abandoning a Failed Penal Experiment: New York's Historic Advantage

By Jonathan Simor

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New York has made it share of bad penal policy choices. Remember the "Rockefeller Drug Laws"; mandatory life sentences for persons arrested with large quantities of dangerous drugs that helped set the nation on the path toward indiscriminate use of incarceration? But the "Empire State" has also had a historic knack for getting out of bad penal positions early. The state began to wind down its position in mass incarceration as early as the mid-1990s, closing as many as 14 prisons, and in recent years has eliminated its mandatory drug laws. This week the state announced a sweeping settlement with the New York Civil Liberties Union that will bring major reforms aimed at reducing the state's use of isolation prison units (read the NYCLU statement here)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on February 21, 2014 (boomark / email).