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"Conservatives must police bottom line on criminal justice"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this opinion piece authored by Grover Norquist, which appeared in the Orange County Register over the weekend. Here is how it starts and ends: Conservatives pride themselves on relentlessly questioning government agencies: Is this program producing results? Do the results justify the cost?  Can the project be done less expensively? These are typical conservative questions about education, pensions, health care and dozens of other government functions ?except one: criminal justice. The size and cost of America's prisons has quadrupled in the past three decades.  In states like California, the annual cost of incarceration is around $50,000 per inmate. When looking for reasons why California is going bankrupt, just multiply that figure by the 170,000 inmates that live in the state...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 22, 2011 (boomark / email).