- The United States has the highest reported rate of incarceration of any country: about one in 100 adults, a total of nearly 2.3 million people in prison or jail. But today there is growing sentiment that life sentences for non-violent offenders and reduced paroles have gone too far. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/science/mandatory-prison-sentences-face-growing-skepticism.html/?? 3 comments politics
- "The punishment is supposed to fit the crime, but when a legislative body says this is going to be the sentence no matter what other factors there are, that’s draconian in every sense of the word. Mandatory sentences breed injustice." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/science/mandatory-prison-sentences-face-growing-skepticism.html?pagewanted=all 4 comments politics
- Stephanie George is serving a life sentence after an ex-boyfriend hid cocaine in her attic. Her sentence reflected a revolution in public policy, often called mass incarceration, that appears increasingly dubious to both conservative and liberal social scientists. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/science/mandatory-prison-sentences-face-growing-skepticism.html 10 comments politics
Linking pages
- HSBC, too big to jail, is the new poster child for US two-tiered justice system | Glenn Greenwald | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/12/hsbc-prosecution-fine-money-laundering 777 comments
- One way to trim the budget: Prison reform. - The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/one-way-to-trim-the-budget-prison-reform/?tid=socialss 81 comments
- Land of the Free? US Has 25 Percent of the World's Prisoners | BillMoyers.com http://billmoyers.com/2013/12/16/land-of-the-free-us-has-5-of-the-worlds-population-and-25-of-its-prisoners 55 comments
- Obama Commutes Sentences for 8 in Crack Cocaine Cases - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/us/obama-commuting-sentences-in-crack-cocaine-cases.html?smid=re-share 23 comments
- The Only Man Who Can Fix Mass Incarceration Is Barack Obama - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/the-only-man-who-can-fix-mass-incarceration-is-barack-obama/382314/ 3 comments
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