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Effective NYT editorial on Second Chance Act

By Douglas A. Berman

Today's New York Times has this effective editorial discussing this week's big news of the Second Chance Act finally becoming law.  Here is a snippet:The compassion and bipartisanship that President Bush promised in the 2000 election campaign made a long-awaited appearance this week as he signed a law to help prisoners re-enter society. The Second Chance Act, five years in the making, is a welcome relief from the simplistic lock-?em-up posture of recent decades that has the United States leading the world in incarceration. It is an important start, but more still needs to be done.... The $326 million that the law promises has yet to be appropriated. Congress should quickly allocate the money as a down payment on a goal that Mr. Bush described as redemption, as he alluded to his own past struggle against alcoholism...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 12, 2008 (boomark / email).