Criminal
May 3, 2014
Overhauling sentencing laws only way forward
Unfortunately, in California our political leadership remains mired in the past and refuses to seriously consider reforms to our sentencing laws. By Allen Hopper
President Barack Obama's recently announced clemency campaign, following up the 2010 enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act reducing the federal penalties for crack cocaine, marks an important and historic step toward beginning to dismantle some of the worst excesses of the federal government's role in the war on drugs and the mass incarceration crisis it spawned. Unfortunately, in California our political leadership remains mired in the pas...
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