[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]
(Anda Chu / TNS)
“That’s a chilling sort of mentality. It’s the kind of thinking that led the good people of California to create a criminal justice system that made eternal pariahs of former offenders and made irredeemable ‘predators’ of troubled juveniles. It’s the thinking that promoted judges and prosecutors who exercised their discretion not for fairness but for unremitting punishment. It’s the mentality that we now are trying hard to correct, after recognizing that not every mistake is a permanent character flaw and not every punishment should last forever.”
Read the editorial by the Editorial Board of the Los Angeles Times.
