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- Title: Smart Public Policy: Replacing Imprisonment with Targeted Nonprison Sentences and Collateral Sanctions.
- Author : Stanford Law School
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 308 KB
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INTRODUCTION Federal sentencing increasingly differs from sentencing in the states. While both systems have shared rising imprisonment rates throughout the last two decades, the federal rate has grown more sharply and continues to increase. (1) States have developed some strategies to combat the growing costs of prisons, which have been fueled by the imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders, lengthened sentences for violent offenders, and the return to prison of those who violated parole and supervised release conditions. (2) Increasingly, some states have diverted offenders who pose a low risk to public safety to nonprison sanctions. (3) The federal regime, however, currently permits and offers only a few nonprison options.