“George said this perspective should fuel shorter sentences, but also restrain prosecutors from seeking incarceration in the first place. ‘They spent an hour and a half there and were relieved to get out,’ she said of staff members who have already visited St. Albans as part of her initiative. ‘So let’s imagine how this might impact somebody who is there for six months or a year, and how this impacts them as a community member when they get back out. Is there a way that we can avoid that entirely, and not risk them coming out a more violent person or with some type of trauma having been in jail? Can we find another way’?“

The Appeal Political Report

August 14, 2019