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Missouri's Sentencing Overhaul: Trading Justice for Rigidity in the Name of Transparency

Missouri lawmakers are considering bills to standardize mandatory minimum prison terms and eliminate conditional release, creating fixed minimum parole eligibility ranges based on felony classes. This reckless erosion of rehabilitation pathways threatens to dismantle the very foundations of justice and human dignity, trading fairness for rigid cruelty.