This document contains multiple passages from different authors on topics related to crime, criminal justice, and prison reform. A few key points discussed include: 1) It is easier to condemn others as "evil" than address societal failures that may contribute to criminal behavior. 2) Prisons should treat drug and alcohol abuse as public health issues requiring treatment rather than solely criminal justice problems. 3) A historic ruling applied revised federal drug sentencing guidelines retroactively, potentially reducing sentences for thousands of offenders. 4) Government oversight is needed to properly police criminal justice systems that are sometimes flawed and can wrongfully impact lives.

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It is easier to dismiss someone as getting "evil" rather than deal with the actual tangle associated
with social failures in which we're almost all complicit in. It's easier to hate the adult rather than ask
what designed a kid develop seeking oblivion along with finding fulfillment in a killing.
Matthew Chapman
Writer/director, 'The Ledge'; Author, Trials in the Monkey'; President, ScienceDebate.org
Theirs is a tale of what we anticipate may happen when boundaries are usually crossed, when a new
rocker Eve tempts not just an Adam, however a Silicon Valley Master in the Universe inside the
Garden associated with Eden.
Mary Papenfuss
Journalist; Author, 'Killer Dads: The Particular Twisted Drives that Compel Fathers to Murder their
Own Kids'
While the particular American public could possibly treatment less concerning me as being a
individual -- I'm branded a criminal, a new felon, right after all, and this won't ever change -- these
people should treatment about what our nation's prison systems do to individuals incarcerated
within.
Christopher Zoukis
Award winning writer,Prisoner rights,education,and reform advocate,winner of PEN American
Middle Prison Creating Awards.
If we aren't embarrassed with executing our lowlifes -- strange which rich people in absolutely no
way seem to obtain executed, what's that about? -- then allow Bible end up being our manual along
with let's kill lots involving people pertaining to a myriad of crimes and let's take action brutally.
Matthew Chapman
Writer/director, 'The Ledge'; Author, Trials with the Monkey'; President, ScienceDebate.org
As the third anniversary of my brother's death approaches, this is finished . that I'm left with. My
dreams have got irreversibly changed.
As long because there are already societies, use associated with drugs and also alcohol happen to be
the part of them. Abuse associated with both drugs and also alcohol will be endemic, but might be
better managed had been we to begin treating drug and alcohol abuse in the same way; which is a
public wellness problem that requires treatment, as opposed to only like a criminal law problem.
Andrea Lyon

2. Dean of Valparaiso university Law School, author along with professor.
As the world will be horrified by another botched execution, a new money protection lawyer in
Texas, a legal scholar in New York, as well as the former warden involving San Quentin prevent
capital punishment.
No longer will victims end up being relegated into a handful of defendants having in order to pay
token quantities throughout just several dozen cases per year.
Last year, executions inside the U.S. dipped to some 20-year low. Jones v Chappell just further
erodes confidence inside the criminal justice system, as America travels along the path to death
penalty abolition.
Sexual violence shouldn't occur in any space, yet its visual appeal throughout correctional facilities
will be specifically troubling -- prisons along with jails are, throughout theory, managed
environments.
A botched execution in addition erodes public confidence because it means that something went
incorrect using the very technique of death, which in turn we have entrusted in order to our leaders.
Whenever any government hides information such since the way to obtain drugs found in lethal
injection, it erodes the public trust.
Jessica S. Henry
Associate Professor inside the Department associated with Justice Studies, Montclair State
University
Last week, in a historic victory for nearly 46,000 federal drug offenders, your United States
Regarding America Sentencing Commission (USSC) voted unanimously to always be able to apply
latest amendments for the federal drug sentencing guidelines retroactively to just about any or
perhaps all eligible offenders.
Christopher Zoukis
Award winning writer,Prisoner
rights,education,and reform advocate,winner
of PEN American center Prison writing
Awards.
If actually the actual saying "Justice delayed is
actually justice denied" offers applicability, it
is within this strange case. Defendants whom
could become innocent as well as whose
constitutional legal rights had been likely
violated sit inside prison.
Faced having a draconian choice through the SCOTUS within late April that just about all
nevertheless eliminated meaningful restitution regarding kid pornography victims, U.S. Senators
Orrin Hatch as well as Chuck Schumer spearheaded any comprehensive legislative fix which usually

3. addresses your concerns discussed in united States v. Paroline.
We must talk about the wrongful conviction associated with innocent men as well as women, to
remind ourselves that we have to appear closely in a system that's flawed and will sometimes fail.
but for the main reason that vein, don't we additionally need to examine your consequences when
those that might really be guilty are usually acquitted, specifically once they are generally repeat
offenders guilty of violent crimes?
In 1960 the particular Supreme Court could get kept Caryl Chessman via being executed within San
Quentin's death chamber. He was executed greater than 11 a prolonged time following his
conviction, subsequent countless state and federal post-conviction proceedings and also appeals.
Unfortunately, the particular Supreme Court didn't seize that opportunity.
When life has been will absolutely no longer really worth living, she ended it. I observe no irony
inside this. As any tough, intelligent, impartial person, she did not want to either shed your ex mind
or be considered a burden for you to anyone. she has been an admirable woman whom lived the girl
convictions.
Matthew Chapman
Writer/director, 'The Ledge'; Author, Trials of the Monkey'; President, ScienceDebate.org
Government can't police itself. Departments like the Internal Affairs Bureau of the NYPD and the
Inspector General regarding Ny are merely in a new position to do so much. The idea will take your
lawyers for your injured along with abused, in order to protect the much less effective also to
effectuate true change with regard to our communities.
Steven Brill
Criminal Protection Attorney as well as Founding partner of Sullivan Brill, LLP.
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