Sending People to Prison for Decades Is Dangerous
Harsh sentencing laws across the country haven’t changed in 30 years, and research shows they don’t work. The law needs to catch up with what we know now.
It’s no secret that people across the country fear crime and that satisfaction with the criminal legal system is low. It’s also clear that our country's punitive approach to justice is not delivering the safety that people desire, and is, in fact, causing harm.
Since the 1980s and 1990s, harsh laws imposing excessively long prison sentences—laws t
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