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Boston Globe Op-Ed:Fixing our criminal sentencing system

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Fixing our criminal sentencing system Boston Globe By David W. White Jr. | April 26, 2008 David W. White Jr. is president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. A NUMBER of news stories this spring have shown us that the criminal sentencing system is out of line - both in Massachusetts and in the nation as a whole. The United States has not just the highest rate of incarceration in the world, but also one-fourth of all of the prisoners in the world. What has led us to this? And what is it about our priorities that has us spending more on incarceration than higher education? In Massachusetts, we have over 25,000 inmates serving time in county jails or state prisons. Governor Deval Patrick's proposed 2009 budget seeks $1.4 billion for the sheriffs' departments and the Department of Correction...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 27, 2008 (boomark / email).