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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Courts - Still more on: SCOTUS decides major prison case today
Updating this May 23rd ILB entry on the SCOTUS decision in Brown v. Plata, Monique Garcia reported yesterday in the Chicago Tribune in a brief story that begins:
SPRINGFIELD -- A U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering California to release tens of thousands of prisoners to ease overcrowding should serve as a warning bell about the need to overhaul sentencing standards in Illinois, a prison watchdog group said today.“We don’t want to become California,” said John Maki, executive director of the Chicago-based John Howard Association. “We need to be talking about ways to have a more effective justice system, and heavy sentencing is not the best way of preventing crime.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 25, 2011 10:40 AM
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