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The Sentencing Project's thoughtful call for racial justice

By Douglas A. Berman

On Friday, I received from The Sentencing Project the following e-mail announcing an important new report addressing racial justice:  We're pleased to call your attention to a newly released report, Compact for Racial Justice: An Agenda for Fairness and Unity.  The publication was produced by the Applied Research Center as a proactive agenda for fairness and unity in communities, politics, and the law.   The Sentencing Project was the lead author of the chapter promoting criminal justice reforms (beginning at page 17). In this chapter, we discuss the failed crime policies of the past 30 years, marked by the six-fold increase in the prison population since 1972.  Much of this increase can be attributed to the War on Drugs and the consequent sentencing disparities it imposed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 22, 2008 (boomark / email).