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Stuntz nails (some) reasons why Democrats are perhaps most responsible for modern mass incarceration

By Douglas A. Berman

Providing a very valuable set of political insights during this political season, Bill Stuntz has this must-read post titled "Who is Responsible for America's Swollen Prison Population?".  Here are excerpts:Who is responsible for the now-famous "punitive turn" in American criminal justice? The best answer is probably: everyone in a position of political or legal authority over the last thirty years.  But I'm pretty sure one common answer ? we have a huge, disproportionately black prison population primarily because of the policy choices made by conservative Republicans like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush ? is wrong.  The political right plainly contributed, and contributed a lot, to the generation-long run-up in our prison population...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).