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Celebrating liberty in the country leading the world in incarceration rates

By Douglas A. Berman

Writing over at the Huffington Post, J. Richard Cohen has this new commentary titled "Mass Incarceration of Children Must End."  Though focused on tough juve sentencing, the piece reminds everyone of this key datum as we celebrate liberty on today's holiday:Our nation now spends $65 billion each year to incarcerate 2.3 million people ? more than any other country.  This is not the inevitable result of cracking down on crime.  It's the result of a series of failed policies enacted over many years. I could link to so many prior posts detailing the ironic reality that our nation's leaders speak grandly about liberty and freedom while doing little about our nation's dramatic willingness to deny liberty and freedom to so many of its own people...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 04, 2008 (boomark / email).