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Incentivized early release the right path to sentencing reform under Trump-Sessions

by Lars Trautman
April 9, 2018
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issues: Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Jails, Pretrial, Prison Reform, Reentry, Sentencing
originally published in The Hill
The heated “tough-on-crime” rhetoric of the president and many in his administration has greatly complicated criminal justice reform efforts and left Congress scrambling to figure out how to make sentencing reform palatable to the White House. The problem has become particularly acute after the attorney general summarily dismissed one of the Senate’s leading proposals and the White House sent Congress a set of criminal justice priorities that pointedly ignored front-end sentencing reforms. So how can Congress possibly move the needle on something as controversial as federal sentencing reform under this administration?

By passing sentencing reform that doesn’t look like sentencing reform. [Read the rest of the op-ed over at The Hill.]

 

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