Patrick Leahy actually said...

Sentencing reform works. Taxpayer dollars can be used more efficiently to prevent crime rather than just build more prisons.

Leahy emphasizes the effectiveness of sentencing reform and efficient use of taxpayer money.

07/31/2012

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Senator Leahy, who for the last decade or more has been the staunchest advocate of wrongful conviction reform.

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I feel that we wanted to help exonerate the innocent, but we also wanted to help convict the guilty.

it is important for everybody in the criminal justice system--the judges, the lawyers, detectives--to be properly trained