From NACDL Press Release:
NACDL is pleased to offer, as a resource for its members
and as a service to the public, a collection of individual downloadable
documents that summarize for each U.S. state the key doctrines and
leading court rulings setting forth constitutional and statutory limits
on lengthy imprisonment terms and other extreme (non-capital) sentences.
The resource – Excessive Sentencing: NACDL’s Proportionality Litigation
Project — is available at this link
NACDL President Steven D. Benjamin said: “The United States now leads
the world in incarceration, with more than 2.2 million people behind
bars, as a result of overcriminalization and excessive sentencing.
NACDL’s Excessive Sentencing Project being launched today is the type of
resource for practitioners, judges, policy advocates, and the general
public that embodies NACDL’s tireless work to fulfill its mission. The
tools provided in this expansive online resource will be deployed to
improve America’s criminal justice system and will result in more
humane, rational and proportional sentencing of those convicted of a
crime.”
link to Kentucky resources
