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Dead Souls

By ALEXANDER COCKBURNThe Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, nowhere with more caprice than with the criminal justice system. On the plus side, there are at least a couple of good trends: a tilt from the death penalty (with serious qualifications about the ?living death? alternative I discussed here recently) and a move away from imprisonment for victimless crimes?as evidenced by medical marijuana laws; impending reform of the Rockefeller drug laws; and Prop 36 in California, offering treatment alternatives to prison.On the minus side, there are some grim developments. For violent felons, sentencing laws have been getting steadily worse. There have been big increases in sentencing enhancements (time added to your ?base sentence? for using a gun, having prior felony convictions, gang-related nature of the crime, hate crimes, etc...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).