Criminal Justice Policy Foundation: Politicians

Canadian Parliamentarians Dept: VANCOUVER - An attorney who helped U.S. politicians write mandatory-minimum sentencing laws during the 1980s has a warning for Canadian parliamentarians, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "When you start going down this road of building more prisons and sending people away for long periods of time, and you convince yourself that this is going to deter people you've made a colossal mistake," said Sterling, who now the president of the Maryland-based Criminal Justice Policy Foundation An attorney who helped U.S. politicians write mandatory-minimum sentencing laws during the 1980s has a warning for Canadian parliamentarians. He sayd imposing long jail terms for minor drug offences has been a mistake in the U.S. and won't work in Canada. AP Photo/Martin Mejia Imposing long jail terms for minor drug offences has been a mistake in the U.S. and won't work in Canada," said Eric E. Sterling, who once served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.