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"Fixing our criminal sentencing system"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this op-ed from the Boston Globe today.  Here are some excerpts:A number of news stories this spring have shown us that the criminal sentencing system is out of line - both in Massachusetts and in the nation as a whole. The United States has not just the highest rate of incarceration in the world, but also one-fourth of all of the prisoners in the world. What has led us to this? And what is it about our priorities that has us spending more on incarceration than higher education?... When you look across the vast spectrum of crimes committed each year, so many of them can be traced back to drug and alcohol abuse and addiction. This is no secret, nor is the fact that more than 20 years of get-tough policies have not made a difference in drug-related crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 26, 2008 (boomark / email).