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OUR SENTENCING POLICIES

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

In the comments section someone wanted to know where we got our information on the rate of incarceration in the US versus other countries. The title of the post links to the NY Times article that has current statistics. In our view the statistics in this article support our contention that the sentencing system in the US is severely broken and needs to be repaired.From the NY Times: The United States has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation, according to data maintained by the International Center for Prison Studies at King?s College London.China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison. (That number excludes hundreds of thousands of people held in administrative detention, most of them in China?s extrajudicial system of re-education through labor, which often singles out political activists who have not committed crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on June 13, 2010 (boomark / email).