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Thorough and thoughtful pitch for sentencing reforms in Arizona

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this op-ed and in this press release, Professor Carissa Byrne Hessick at Arizona State University is making a thorough and thoughtful pitch for sentencing reforms in Arizona.  Here is part of Hessick's op-ed: As part of the new Public Policy Incubator Program at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, several students and I recently wrote a report on sentencing reform in Arizona.  Drawing on recent reforms in states like Texas ? a state that since 2005 has reduced both its spending on prisons and its crime rates ? the report makes a number of recommendations. Those recommendations include increasing diversion programs, establishing mental-health courts, expanding drug treatment and enlarging the ability of prosecutors and defense attorneys to plea bargain...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 20, 2010 (boomark / email).