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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 19, 2015

Longer sentences do not dissuade individuals from committing crimes, according to testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. "They do not reduce crime, they do not increase public safety, and they cost the state a whole lot of money,” Professor Christopher Slobogin told the committee. The director of the Criminal Justice Program at Vanderbilt University Law School was among those commenting on recent findings from a sentencing task force. The Tennessean has more on the hearing.