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...Mauer raised the issue of sentencing for drug charges, which led to just as heated a debate...
...While Lungren often appeared flustered and unable to respond to the arguments of Ellis and Mauer, he remained light-hearted about his unpopular position...
Nearly 300 people crowded the ARCO Forum to hear a vehement discussion between Lungren and former Black Panther Eddie Ellis and Marc Mauer, the author of The Race to Incarcerate...
...Mauer responded that nearly 2 million Americans are currently imprisoned, and that 11 times as many people are imprisoned for drugs today...
That disheartening statistic applies only to those who actually go to prison. Overcrowding has enabled countless more repeat offenders to elude incarceration or do snooze time in a county jail. According to Marc Mauer of the Washington-based Sentencing Project, for each crime committed, an offender stands a 1-in-20 chance of serving time. "People ignore the gun laws because there are no stiff penalties," says Antoine McClarn, 22, who sits in the Cook County Jail on charges of armed robbery. "Guys are charged and then released, and it's like a cycle to them, almost fun. People used...