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Notable speech by AG Eric Holder about reentry at a notable EOEF event

By Douglas A. Berman

Speaking today at the European Offenders Employment Forum event taking place in DC (details here, EOEF website here), US Attorney General Eric Holder gave this lengthy (and important?) speech which has a lot of notable talk about US punishment, corrections and especially reentry.  Here are a few excerpts: Every person in this room ?- whether you work as an attorney or law enforcement officer, conduct research or develop policy -? can agree that prisoner reentry is one of the most complex criminal-justice challenges of the 21st century.  Today, corrections systems, worldwide, are under extraordinary stress.  Capacity limitations and budget constraints have resulted in an acceleration of early release and have put prisoner education and employment training programs at risk...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 08, 2010 (boomark / email).