Bench Report: This Ex-Judge's Pitch to Make Sentences More Just. Plus, Senate Confirms Its First Judge of 2022.
"How can judges who have been schooled in the extraordinarily punitive system that produced mass incarceration for the past thirty years suddenly operate in a system that—one hopes—will reflect wholly different premises?" wrote former U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner.
January 13, 2022 at 05:41 PM
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An Ex-Judge's Thoughts On Sentencing Reform
Nancy Gertner, a retired judge and now a professor at Harvard Law. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM.
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