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Is conservative mandate on criminal justice to "git tuff" or save money?

So Republican voters swept 22 Democrats out of the Texas House of Representatives, and unlike in Washington where Republicans realize they're still relatively unpopular, Texas conservatives are taking the transformation for a mandate.But is there a mandate on criminal justice? And if so, is that mandate to "git tuff" or to save money? Polls show prisons are one of the few areas where the public favors major spending cuts. What would Ronald Reagan do?The coming session will be dominated by two factors, one inherently partisan and one almost purely practical: Redistricting and the budget crunch. On redistricting, having extra incumbents to protect is a good problem to have, but it means to protect all their seats they can't gerrymander out Democrats quite as vigorously...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 04, 2010 (boomark / email).