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If You’re Unlucky or Black, Your Prison Sentence Could Be 63 Percent Longer

by Douglas Ankney

A new report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission reveals that the length of a defendant’s prison sentence increasingly depends on the whims of the judge. For example, in Philadelphia, some of the judges ordered sentences 63 percent longer than their colleagues for identical crimes. Doug Berman, ...

 

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