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Will AG Holder really lead a "new birth of freedom" in prison nation?

By Douglas A. Berman

In addition to all the interesting advocacy for frank conversations about racial issues (details here), Attorney General Eric Holder articulated this potent commitment to freedom in his first major speech: Through its work and through its example this Department of Justice, as long as I am here, must ? and will ? lead the nation to the "new birth of freedom" so long ago promised by our greatest President. This is our duty and our solemn obligation. I am pleased to hear the new AG talking the talk of freedom.  But, especially with United States as the world's leader in incarceration, the big question with whether he will really walk the walk.  There are many ways that AG Holder could and should fulfill this duty and solemn obligation to usher in a new birth of freedom in prison nation, and I hope he will start trying to make criminal justice realities live up to his rhetoric...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).