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"Youthful offenders deserve a second chance"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new commentary in the Los Angeles Times authored by Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Ernie Pierce and Jeanne Woodford. Here are excerpts: One of us is a retired police officer who daily put his life on the line to catch criminals. Another is a former Department of Justice attorney who spent years prosecuting violent drug dealers and organized crime organizations.  The third, a former warden of San Quentin State Prison and director of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, spent her career ensuring that those convicted served out their sentences as required by law. Collectively, we have put or kept a lot of people in prison.  Prison is where some people justly belong, many for long periods of time...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).