Should Judges Have to Weigh the Price Tag of Sending Someone to Prison?
There’s one trial that Buta Biberaj will never forget. Biberaj, a former defense attorney, remembers how Virginia jurors in 2017 requested 132 years of prison for a man who stole car tires. The jurors may have been unaware that taxpayers could pay more than $25,000 a year to keep someone incarcerated—so by proposing their sentence, they …
News story posted on 2020-01-08T18:49:00.0000000Z
