Sentencing Law and Policy: "Cruel and Unusual: U.S. Sentencing Practices in a Global Context"
"Cruel and Unusual: U.S. Sentencing Practices in a Global Context" The title of this post is the title of this notable new report released this week coming from the University of San Francisco School of Law's Center for Law and Global Justice. This press release provides a background and summary of this report, and here are excerpts from the press release: Sentencing laws in the United States are at odds with the country’s human rights obligations to direct its prisons system towards rehabilitation, the University of San Francisco School of Law’s Center for Law and Global Justice said ...