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"Obama backs off strict crime policy"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this extended new piece from Josh Gerstein from Politico.  The piece covers a lot of federal sentencing law and policy ground that should be familiar to readers of this blog, and here are excerpts: For years, it was one of the GOP?s most potent political epithets ? labeling a Democrat ?soft on crime.? But the Obama White House has taken the first steps in decades to move away from a strict lock-?em-up mentality on crime ? easing sentences for crack cocaine possession, launching a top-to-bottom review of sentencing policies and even sounding open to reviewing guidelines that call for lengthy prison terms for people convicted of child pornography offenses. The moves ? still tentative, to be sure ? suggest that President Barack Obama?s aides are betting that the issue has lost some of its punch with voters more worried about terrorism and recession...continue to full post

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