It’s time to end Antonin Scalia’s prison state: How the next SCOTUS justice could help end mass incarceration

Jonathan Simon interviewed by Salon, Feb. 21, 2016

“Scalia was perhaps the strongest opponent of proportionality analysis of any kind under the Amendment,” emails Jonathan Simon. … “A more robust proportionality rule would go a long way to eliminating some outsized determinate sentences that drive a big part of mass incarceration.”