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"Goodbye to Willie Horton"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this effective new op-ed from Margaret Colgate Love appearing in today's National Law Journal.  The piece's subheading provides a sense of its themes: "Mike Huckabee effectively defended his Maurice Clemmons commutation ? a good sign for overdue criminal justice reforms."  Here is an excerpt from the close of the piece: Of greater concern than Huckabee's political career are the implications of the Clemmons case for long-overdue criminal justice reforms and for the nascent revival of pardoning by a few courageous governors.  The Seattle tragedy would be compounded if it were allowed to derail pragmatic proposals to reduce prison terms for nonviolent offenders, to increase the availability of drug and mental health treatment in and out of prison and to facilitate prisoner re-entry...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 11, 2010 (boomark / email).