Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Responding to Prison Overcrowding Through Sentencing Policy
Introduction
I want to make six comments on Richard Singer’s paper. I shall emphasize practical realities of punishment systems, because I believe Singer needs to pay greater attention to these realities when he discusses the relation between desert theory and prison overcrowding.
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