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Hell Just Froze Over

By Michael Blankenship

We can no longer afford business as usual with prisons. The criminal justice system is broken, and conservatives must lead the way in fixing it. Read more... Conservatives broke it and now they want to fix it. Good for them. It is too bad that this conversion had to result from the budget crisis instead of the revelation that "get tough" crime control polices were failing. States like Idaho need to get busy reforming their criminal justice systems. Mandatory minimum sentencing, juvenile waivers, the "drug war," capital punishment and community corrections (probation and parole) are all issues that are in dire need of substantive reform (no lipstick on the pig, please).  

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on January 07, 2011 (boomark / email).