SHIRA SCHEINDLIN

No one should live in fear of being stopped whenever he leaves his home to go about the activities of daily life

Every first year law student learns that sentencing has four goals: retribution, incapicitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation.

Manditory minimums were almost always excessive, and they made me feel unethical, even dirty.

While I bore the titel of "Honorable Judge", I felt less than honorable and moroe like a complicit tool of an unjust system.

I put perople in prison for too long. I had no choice.

The fact that the United States, with less than 5 percent of the world's population incarcerates 25% of the world's prisoners is largly due to manditory minimum sentences.

No one should live in fear of being stopped whenever he leaves his home to go about the activities of daily life

Every first year law student learns that sentencing has four goals: retribution, incapicitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation.

I put perople in prison for too long. I had no choice.

While I bore the titel of "Honorable Judge", I felt less than honorable and moroe like a complicit tool of an unjust system.

Manditory minimums were almost always excessive, and they made me feel unethical, even dirty.

The fact that the United States, with less than 5 percent of the world's population incarcerates 25% of the world's prisoners is largly due to manditory minimum sentences.