HARTFORD, Conn. — There aren’t a lot of attorneys who are making it their mission to get inmates out of prison before they’ve served out their sentences.
Alex Taubes, just seven years out of Yale Law School, has found a niche that is yielding results. As the result of recent Supreme Court decisions and changes in state law, he has been able to have time taken off his clients’ sentences, helping them become effective members of society.
The total so far: 522 years taken off the sentences of 48 men and three women in the past two years, most of them felons who were given extraordinarily long terms when they were young.
