Title: Is Raj Rajaratnam really living like a prison king?
Headings: Is Raj Rajaratnam really living like a prison king?
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Is Raj Rajaratnam really living like a prison king?

Content: Simon's comparison of drug crimes with white collar crimes is helpful because it explains one of the reasons that the treatment of the latter has grown so much harsher in recent years. Before sentences were extended and prison conditions made harsher, there was a clear disparity between the way different classes of criminal were treated. This resulted in unseemly racial, economic, and social disparities in sentencing, among other problems. Camp Elgin was, for example, 66 percent white—which is far from a proportional representation of the broader prison population. These disparities were considered by lawmakers, the federal judiciary, and many legal professionals as a serious human rights problem. Harsher sentences for white collar criminals has certainly helped narrow those disparities. But there's no reason why the ratchet should not have gone the other way: reducing the sentences for non-violent crimes that aren't considered white collar. Indeed, that article in the American Bar Association's Human Rights Magazine argued that the disparity had been closed "in the wrong way." "There is an obvious alternative remedy for the disparity between sentences for white collar crime and sentences for blue collar crime.