The last wave of sentencing policies painted advocates and judges into a corner and pushed proportionality out of the room. While retribution is ever-present, new research, new thinking and new technologies demand revisiting punishments and the punished. So it is that the sentencing begun in the courthouse must never end.
In a future “World on a Wire,” instant sanctions will be inflicted on the mind with drugs or biotechnology, telescoping years of real confinement into a virtual experience.1 Before we cross the threshold into a time when finality and rehabilitation will be mooted by technology, when prisons will fit on the head of a pin, we must appraise the humanity of today’s approaches to sentencing and punishment.
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