NEWSMAX: It’s not just liberal Democrats trying to get rid of mandatory sentencing laws – conservatives, including Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and others have joined the fight…
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a leader in the effort with its Right on Crime Project. The project has been used on the state level in Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina to cut the penalties for low-level drug possession; expand drug courts, which save time and money; take money once used to fund prisons to provide better law-enforcement methods; and expand community-based programs, reports FoxNews.com…
“In the mid-1990s I concluded that the social benefits approximately equaled the costs of incarceration.” [University of Chicago economist and “Freakonmics” author Steven D. Levitt] said. But now, “I think we should be shrinking the prison population by at least one-third.”.… (more)
