Jeff Sessions actually said...

The Athens Banner-Herald quoted you as saying, 'Sentencing does not deter crime. The only thing I see sentencing doing is taking a person off the street so they can't do it for a while.'

Context

Sessions questions the effectiveness of sentencing as a deterrent.

09/28/2010

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