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Des Moines Register: Voters, demand change in sentencing laws

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Guest column: Voters, demand change in sentencing laws Des Moines Register FRAN and RAY KOONTZ live in Des Moines. Their son, John, is serving his 12th year in prison on drug and weapons charges. Contact: October 4, 2008 When Americans go to the polls this November, they will elect state and federal representatives ultimately responsible for what's become a travesty of justice and a waste of taxpayer money: the long sentences being served by nonviolent offenders, especially in federal prisons. In Iowa, we'll decide whether our current representatives in the U.S. House and one of our senators, Tom Harkin, deserve to continue in office. They do not, unless they pledge to follow their constituents' wishes and change unjust sentencing laws. Nationally, we imprison 2...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 05, 2008 (boomark / email).