We can cut the American prison population in half while reducing crime rates. This should be the goal. It will not be easy, politically correct or through the common complaints we hear against incarceration. It will require proven tough love. At this web-site, you can find out how to bring the numbers down. As far as I know, I am the only one to call for a halving of the prison population -- and it's about time!
A "Get Out of Jail Free Card" Will Not Work Most of America's prison reform advocates only approach the issues from the standpoint of the prisoner-as-victim. Law enforcement policies under the prevailing liberal view are characterized as the main cause and perpetrator of mass incarceration. We rarely hear these folks tell us what punishment the guilty should have or how criminals should accept the consequences of their crimes. Many times they propose drug treatment, Drug Court, therapy, commitment to mental institutions, rehabilitation, "alternative sentences," and the extremely general solutions of fairness, equality, education and "community corrections." Most critics of mass incarceration focus on the process, not the substance of the problems. The process is flawed, they say, because of the failed War on Drugs, inadequate indigent defense, excessive prosecutorial power, mandatory sentences, exce...