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Time to Find the Key

Loaded on March 15, 2023 by Jayson Hawkins published in Criminal Legal News April, 2023, page 42
Filed under: Overcrowding, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Overdetention, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release. Location: United States of America.

by Jayson Hawkins

“Lock’em up and throw away the key” has long been the rallying cry of the tough-on-crime crowd. While this approach may have an intuitive appeal to a public frightened by stories about crime in the media, a series of recent studies has challenged the rationale of long ...

 

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