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Appreciating the real American challenge in balancing liberty and security

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader flagged this new commentary from Dahlia Lithwick at Slate, titled "Cage Match: Guantanamo is the least of America's prison problems."  Here are snippets from its start and end: The public-opinion two-step on the wisdom of closing the prison camp at Guantanamo is fascinating, and not just because Americans are now inclined to keep the detention facility there open forever. The current legal meltdown about what to do with prisoners still at Guantanamo shows that contrary to popular belief, Americans care a good deal about prisons, prisoners, and prison reform, but only when the inmates threaten to tumble out into their backyards. But there's the rub: We already have a prison problem, and it's already in our backyards.  That's what Sen...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 08, 2009 (boomark / email).