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Conservatives Try to Co-opt Criminal Justice Reform
Loaded on Oct. 3, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2016, page 56
Filed under:
Prison Reform,
Statistics/Trends,
Cost of Prison Systems,
Sentencing,
Good Time,
Collateral consequences of prison.
Location:
United States of America.
After decades of driving prison expansion by espousing tough-on-crime sentencing laws, advocating for policies to lock up criminals and throw away the key, and exploiting the public’s fear of crime, conservative lawmakers have finally discovered criminal justice reform. Like European explorers being met on the beach by throngs of Native ...
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