Law and the New Order: A Fresh Wave of District Attorneys is Redefining Justice
"Criminal justice is one of a small number of issues on
which conservatives and liberals have begun to adopt overlapping policy
positions, if for different reasons. Conservatives worry about the
expense of mass imprisonment; liberals talk about the social costs of
hollowing out communities through incarceration. But they are coming
together. Following a period in which longer and longer sentences were
meted out for increasing numbers of crimes, resulting in huge increases
in corrections spending, most states have been rethinking their
approach. More than 30 have approved laws that seek to reduce prison
populations, while increasing funds for treatment or re-entry programs
that can cut down on recidivism. The results have been encouraging, with
crime rates remaining low in most jurisdictions even as the number of
prisoners drops."
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