Response to Tom

I appreciate Tom's post, and agree, I think, with what he says.  I hope it is not necessary to emphasize that nothing in my previous posts on the Limon case should be taken as endorsing the Kansas law, on the merits, or as denying or minimizing the facts that, as Tom says, the "differential treatment" at issue in this particular case was "truly severe" and (therefore) "morally unattractive" and that "as our prison system stands now, a multi-year prison term running through one's 20s and 30s, even with possibility of parole in several years . . ., virtually guarantees the destruction of one's life[.]"