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Harmelin V. Michigan: Effective Application Of Anti-Drug Legislation Or Cruel And Unusual Punishment?, Louise S. Mcalpin Jan 1992

Harmelin V. Michigan: Effective Application Of Anti-Drug Legislation Or Cruel And Unusual Punishment?, Louise S. Mcalpin

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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.'


Book Review: The Constitution In The Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years 1789-1888. By David P. Currie, Chicago Il: University Of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. Xii, 504. $40.00, Johnny C. Burris Jan 1986

Book Review: The Constitution In The Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years 1789-1888. By David P. Currie, Chicago Il: University Of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. Xii, 504. $40.00, Johnny C. Burris

Nova Law Review

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age