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Dr. Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Senior Research Analyst at The Sentencing Project, and author of the important report A Second Look at Injustice will share her latest research on prison sentence lengths. In this presentation moderated by defense lawyer Seth P. Chazin, Dr. Ghandnoosh will discuss that among the many facts revealed by her research, it was clear that lengthy sentences do far more societal harm than good and that lengthier sentences are demonstrably unjustified: Although 56% of people in U.S. prisons are sentenced to 10 or more years, research shows that people “age out” of crime in 10 years – recidivism decreases dramatically after a decade and desistance takes roughly 16 years.
