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: Kansas Federal Defender

Too Much Time

By Melody Evans and Kirk Redmond

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We know all too well that too many of our clients are going to prison for too long. Here is an article from Reuters with some good but depressing statistics from a recently released report. We need to find a way, in some cases, to integrate this sort of argument into our sentencing memoranda. Just warehousing people, especially the young and first-time offenders, is costly and harmful. Here are a few quotes:The number of Americans in prison has risen eight-fold since 1970, with little impact on crime but at great cost to taxpayers and society, researchers said in a report calling for a major justice-system overhaul.At current rates, one-third of all black males, one-sixth of Latino males, and one in 17 white males will go to prison during their lives...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Federal Defender on November 19, 2007 (boomark / email).

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