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"A Blue-Ribbon Look at Criminal Justice"

By Douglas A. Berman

The this of this post is the headline of this editorial from today's New York Times.  Here are excerpts: The nation?s criminal justice system is in need of an overhaul. This is particularly true of its incarceration policies. Too many people are being put behind bars who do not need to be there, at great cost to the states, and not enough attention is being paid to helping released prisoners re-enter society. The Senate Judiciary Committee recently voted to create a blue-ribbon commission to study the justice system and offer reforms. The bill?s main sponsor was Jim Webb, a Democrat of Virginia who is one of the Senate?s more thoughtful voices on crime and punishment. Among the issues the commission would study is why the United States has the highest reported incarceration rate in the world...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 13, 2010 (boomark / email).