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    Harmelin v. Michigan: Effective Application of Anti-Drug Legislation or Cruel and Unusual Punishment?

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    The traditional American concept of criminal sentencing is that prisons exist for rehabilitation and release as much as for incarceration. 1 However, in recent years Congress and state legislatures have enacted a series of stringent anti-drug laws, which have largely abandoned the concept of rehabilitating prisoners2 and instead, focused on keeping inmates locked up for longer periods of time.\u2
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