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'Right on Crime: Accounting for Accountability'

At The Crime Report, Marc Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation has a column about the group's new "Right on Crime" initiative, which opens thusly:Some of the nation?s most prominent conservatives are meeting in DC today to chart a ?tough and smart? criminal justice agenda.  Reduced spending.  Limited government.  Accountability.  Conservatives campaigned on these fundamentals during the 2010 election, and voters rewarded them with control of at least one chamber in 19 state legislatures and a 63-seat gain in the U.S. House of Representatives.What it will this mean for criminal justice policy?In the past, these conservative principles have too often been forgotten here, with ?lock ?em up and throw away the key? the default mindset...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 16, 2010 (boomark / email).