Legal Opinion
United States v. Michael Deen
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 7, 2013No. 11-2271PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge.
In the mid-1880s, Victor Hugo is said to have written, “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Our national debate about the relationship between education and crime, both in regard to prevention and rehabilitation, has long raged. A part of it — the part that asks whether rehabilitation is a viable penological goal — has been at the heart of Congress’s shaping of the American prison system. A unanimous Supreme Court recently held that the Sentencing Reform Act does not permit a court to “impose or lengthen a prison sentence to enable an offender…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- United States v. James Bennett, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2012
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3Cited by23 opinions
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