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Virginia governor's race raising crime and punishment debates

By Douglas A. Berman

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This new Washington Post article about the Virginia governor's race, which is headlined "McDonnell Proposes Drug Courts, Lifetime Sex Offender Tracking," suggests that the future is now for serious political discussion of certain alternatives to prison for dealing with crime and punishment. Here are excerpts: Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert F. McDonnell released a lengthy proposal Wednesday designed to curb crime in Virginia, including lifetime monitoring for sexual predators through the Global Positioning System and other technology. The former prosecutor and attorney general also said he has reversed his position on drug courts and now supports opening more of them in the state after recent studies documented their successes. McDonnell's announcement at the annual Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Newport News was the second of three about public safety...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).

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