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