The British government scored a popular victory against the European Court of Human Rights last month when the British Court of Appeals ruled “whole-life” prison sentences legal. The legality of such sentences, intended for the most heinous murders, has been in dispute since July 2013, when the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights decided, in
By Dianne Frazee-Walker Imagine a perfect world where the recidivism rate is low, prisons are not overcrowded, and offenders are rehabilitated. The correctional system in some European countries, such as Germany and the Netherlands, has made this a reality. In February, a group of American corrections officials, judges, prosecutors, and public defenders conducted research that
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