“The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.” Why are the number and length of sentences so inflated in the United States? Adam Liptak of the New York Times scrutinizes this phenomenon in an interesting ARTICLE that compares international sentencing guidelines.
And while we are on the topic of sentencing guidelines, let us not forget the well DOCUMENTED sentencing discrepancies between offenses involving powder cocaine and crack.
Travis…. I hope you’re not suggesting that there was a motive behind the deciphering of coke and “diet coke”. That’s ludicrous.