Sentencing commission could bring major reforms

Barry Krisberg quoted in San Francisco Daily Journal, February 27, 2014 (registration required)
Krisberg, of UC Berkeley, said the state should model the U.S. Sentencing Commission in creating guidelines for judges…. That approach, Krisberg said, has been modeled by other states. “In almost every state that has gone to a guidelines approach, it has resulted in violent offenders serving more time, property and drug offenders serving less time, and basically overall the prison population is stabilizing or going down,” he said.