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Harmelin V. Michigan: Effective Application Of Anti-Drug Legislation Or Cruel And Unusual Punishment?, Louise S. Mcalpin
Harmelin V. Michigan: Effective Application Of Anti-Drug Legislation Or Cruel And Unusual Punishment?, Louise S. Mcalpin
Nova Law Review
The traditional American concept of criminal sentencing is that
prisons exist for rehabilitation and release as much as for incarceration.
1 However, in recent years Congress and state legislatures have
enacted a series of stringent anti-drug laws, which have largely abandoned
the concept of rehabilitating prisoners2 and instead, focused on
keeping inmates locked up for longer periods of time.'