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Proceedings from USSC imprisonment alternatives symposium

By Douglas A. Berman

I am very pleased to see that the US Sentencing Commission has now posted here on its website the proceedings of its big event this past summer examining incarceration alternatives.  Here is how the USSC describes the event in its link to the proceedings:On July 14-15, 2008, the United States Sentencing Commission held a national symposium on alternatives to incarceration in Washington, D.C.  The purposes of this symposium were to gather information regarding the use of alternatives to incarceration and to provide a forum for idea-sharing concerning possible implementation of non-incarceration sanctions in the federal system.The proceedings page has lots of interesting materials through this link to the CD of materials dIstributed at the symposium...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 20, 2008 (boomark / email).