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: Sentencing Law and Policy

Aspirations and realism about drug sentencing reform

By Douglas A. Berman

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I have the honor of being in Boston today to participate in a terrific symposium hosted by the New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement.  The symposium is called "High Crimes: Punishing America?s Drug Offenders," and details about the event can be found at this link.  Among the topics I plan to discuss is what I hope and what I expect President Obama might do on the drug sentencing front. My views are informed in part by what now appears on the President-Elect's new transition website. Here are some comments from the website under a tab on Civil Rights: The Problem... Disparities Continue to Plague Criminal Justice System: African Americans and Hispanics are more than twice as likely as whites to be searched, arrested, or subdued with force when stopped by police...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 07, 2008 (boomark / email).

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