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Speaking to L.A. lawyers, Justice Kennedy blasts the prison guard union calling its influence in passing three strikes "sick"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Justice Kennedy laments the state of prisons in California, U.S. Speaking to L.A. lawyers, the Supreme Court jurist blasts the prison guard union's influence, calling it 'sick' but sidesteps questions about the ruling he wrote last month on campaign spending. By Carol J. Williams February 4, 2010 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy criticized California sentencing policies and crowded prisons Wednesday night, calling the influence that unionized prison guards had in passing the three-strikes law "sick." In an otherwise courtly and humorous address to the Los Angeles legal community, Kennedy expressed obvious dismay over the state of corrections and rehabilitation in the country. He said U.S. sentences are eight times longer than those issued by European courts...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).