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Notable comments by AG Holder about incarceration in speech to National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives

By Douglas A. Berman

For those like me concerned about the economic costs and potenital criminogenic consequences of mass incarceration, another speech delivered today from Attorney General Eric Holder suggests that his Department of Justice understands the problems with using incarceration to address all crime issues.  Specifically, in this speech given to a law enforcement group, AG Holder had this to say about incarceration: I know there are two specific problems many of you are struggling to tackle, and I?d like to address them. First, the growing number of Americans ? and disproportionate number of African Americans ? currently incarcerated in prisons across our country. Second, the division and tension that sometimes exists between law enforcement officers and the communities they work to protect...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 12, 2010 (boomark / email).