More people get punished
After three decades of watching the incarceration rate
climb to unprecedented heights, Americans seem ready to usher in a new era of
leniency. Some legislators are pushing to eliminate mandatory sentencing minimums for
nonviolent drug offenders. Others are calling for the federal prison population
to be slashed by letting some prisoners out early. Others
still are advocating for incarcerated juveniles to be treated less harshly. Meanwhile, states all over the country are
decriminalizing certain misdemeanor offenses so that people who are caught
doing illegal but not-actually-very-bad things are punished less severely than
they used to be.
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