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NY: Letting Judges Have a Say in Sentencing

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

About New York- NY Times Letting Judges Have a Say in Sentencing By JIM DWYER Published: March 24, 2009 It is a cold spring morning, and a woman in her 30s, who has spent most of her adult life working as a prostitute to support a cocaine habit, pushes open the door to a courthouse on 161st Street in the Bronx. Last year, she was arrested and found with enough cocaine to send her to jail for a year. Instead, when she walked out of court on Tuesday, she had graduated: She had gone six months without using any drugs, she was in a rigorous job-training program, and her child, who had been in foster care, was living with her again. ?This is one of the wins,? said Laura Safer-Espinoza, an acting State Supreme Court justice who presided over the woman?s case...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).