#173 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Tuesday October 19)
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Good morning! CRIME I have long been arguing that one must separate good policing and protecting the public from the issues surrounding our gulag of overpopulated prisons, mass incarceration, and a parole system that offers little hope to those who have demonstrated contrition and have been rehabilitated. Ridding ourselves of “three strikes” rules, eliminating minimum sentencing, not allowing victims’ families and prosecutors to participate in parole hearings, materially reducing sentencing and finding ways to rehabilitate without long prison sentences are crucial steps on the road to reform. But the cruelty and inhumanity of our criminal justice sentencing is not an argument to “defund the police,” nor are the current spate of police overreach and murder justification for protecting us less.
#173 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Tuesday October 19)
#173 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Tuesday…
#173 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Tuesday October 19)
Good morning! CRIME I have long been arguing that one must separate good policing and protecting the public from the issues surrounding our gulag of overpopulated prisons, mass incarceration, and a parole system that offers little hope to those who have demonstrated contrition and have been rehabilitated. Ridding ourselves of “three strikes” rules, eliminating minimum sentencing, not allowing victims’ families and prosecutors to participate in parole hearings, materially reducing sentencing and finding ways to rehabilitate without long prison sentences are crucial steps on the road to reform. But the cruelty and inhumanity of our criminal justice sentencing is not an argument to “defund the police,” nor are the current spate of police overreach and murder justification for protecting us less.