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Dear Friend,
The U.S. Sentencing Commission (Commission) is asking the public to comment on its priorities for amending the federal sentencing guidelines next year. We need your voice!
Submit your comments today by visiting the following site and clicking on "Submission Portal": [link removed] [[link removed]]
I want to highlight one proposed priority in particular. It lines up nicely with our shared interest in prison oversight! The Commission proposes to consider the issue of reducing costs of incarceration and overcapacity of prisons. It then asks whether it should assess the degree to which certain practices of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) are effective in meeting the purposes of sentencing as set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2), which are:
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To
provide
just
punishment;
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To
afford
adequate
deterrence
to
criminal
conduct;
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To
protect
the
public
from
further
crimes
by
the
defendant;
and
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To
provide
needed
educational
or
vocational
training,
medical
care,
or
other
correctional
treatment
in
the
most
effective
manner.
You and your loved ones are the experts, friends. I know the Commission is eager to hear from you about BOP practices and how they do or don’t meet the purposes of sentencing. Please write to the Commission and tell them (1) that they should adopt this priority, and (2) explain, based on your own experience, why they should.
Comments are due on August 1. To submit yours, please visit the following site and click on "Submission Portal": [link removed] [[link removed]]
Thank you for participating in this important comment period.
Yours,
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Mary Price
General Counsel, FAMM
P.S. You can find the other proposed priorities here: [link removed] [[link removed]]
You should feel free to tell the Commission what you think about these as well.
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