“Shifting Winds, Changing Landscape”: Eric Holder Steps Up, GOP Stands Down...
If you missed Rachel’s segment last night on Attorney General Eric Holder’s dramatic announcement on sentencing in drug crimes, it’s well worth your time. Indeed, by any fair measure, yesterday may be...
View Article“Times Are A Changin”: Once Upon A Time, Everybody Wanted To Be “Tough on Crime”
Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced some policy changes meant to reduce the number of drug offenders subject to mandatory minimum sentences. Across the political spectrum, people have...
View Article“Orange Is The New Black”: It’s Time To End The Needless Social Harm Our...
America is facing up to one of its greatest failures: our grossly unfair criminal justice system. In and out of the public eye, corrections officials, legislatures and law enforcement authorities have...
View Article“Mandatory Ineffectiveness”: Mandatory Minimum Prison Sentences Don’t Make Us...
There are many reasons to oppose mandatory minimum sentencing laws. They frequently require excessive punishments, they put too much power into the hands of prosecutors (at the expense of judges), and...
View Article“There But For The Grace Of God”: America Needs A Justice System Worthy Of...
The United States does not have a justice system. If we define a justice system as a system designed for the production of justice, then it seems obvious that term cannot reasonably be applied to a...
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