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| Finding cash behind bars |
| By Sasha Abramsky- guardian.co.uk |
| Published: 02/17/2009 |
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After decades spent getting tough on crime, some states are looking to save money by reducing their prison populations There's been a lot of talk recently about criminal justice reform. Some of it is to do with a philosophical shift. Barack Obama's just-announced drug tsar appointment, Gil Kerlikowske, pioneered a harm-reduction strategy while running the Seattle police department, and Obama himself is on record opposing current marijuana laws and defending medical marijuana laws. Virginia senator Jim Webb has been pushing legislation designed to scale back the size of America's burgeoning incarceration infrastructure, through channelling non-violent offenders into alternatives to incarceration and reducing sentence lengths, among other reforms. There's much talk in Washington these days about giving troubled teens and drug addicts better access to rehab programmes. Philosophically, it's a huge shift in emphasis from the un-nuanced tough-on-crime language perfected by both political parties over the last generation. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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