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Senator Clinton talks a good game on sentencing reform

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader sent me this link from a Vibe Magazing Q&A with Senator Hillary Clinton. This portion is especially notable in light of Senator Clinton's expressed opposition to crack retroactivity: VIBE: In your speech, you talked about having first, second, and third chances for children. In the last ten years the rate of incarceration of women has increased exponentially. I don?t think the average person realizes that it?s not 50% or 100%, it?s like 750% in the last thirty years. There are a disproportionate number of African-American men and women who are going to be released from prison with felony convictions. What do we do about that group of people who are effectively disenfranchised when they come out? CLINTON: Number one, we need to divert more people from the prison system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).