Unlike in the United States, non-reviewable sentences are extinct in all 46 member states of the Council of Europe. This is thanks to the European Court of Human Rights's decision in Vinter v. United Kingdom. Volume XLVI staff editor Sophia Lattanzio argues that the United States has much to learn from its European counterparts in terms of sentence review, as current sentence review schemes in the United States fall far short of European standards, fueling the United States's mass incarceration crisis.
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