U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in a striking departure from his court's and the Bush administration's hard line on crime, criticized the nation's imprisonment policies Saturday and called for the repeal of mandatory-minimum sentences for federal crimes.
"Our resources are being misspent. Our punishments are too severe. Our sentences are too long," Kennedy said in a speech at the American Bar Association convention in San Francisco.
I couldn't agree more. Read all about it here from the San Francisco Chronicle.