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6 Key conservative Principles: Cutting Crime. Cutting Costs. Reinforcing Conservatism.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Cutting Crime. Cutting Costs. Reinforcing Conservatism. By Marc Levin Along with scores of conservative Republicans, right-of-center values won the 2010 midterm elections, as the principles of limited government, reduced spending and public-sector accountability earned the frustrated public?s support. While conservatives promised to put education, health care, pensions and myriad other government programs under lawmakers? microscopes, it is also time to scrutinize criminal justice spending. Since the 1970s, conservatives have upheld the ?Tough on Crime? mantra to push back against liberal policies of the 1960s that eschewed personal responsibility in favor of blaming society for criminal behavior and failed to protect the public from dangerous violent offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).