Overcriminalization significantly undermines human flourishing and social well-being by harming the family, social networks, and social citizenship. Additionally, it prevents capable men and women from utilizing their creative capacities in the marketplace. This creates vast issues involving relations with family while incarcerated and reintegration into society after release. On the economic side, draconian cash bail systems undermine justice through basing someone's ability to attain pre-trial release upon their wealth, not their actual threat to society.
“This debate has been largely symbolic, because New Hampshire has neither an active death penalty system nor any executions on the horizon. The state has only one person on death row — Michael Addison, who was sentenced to death more than a decade ago for killing Michael Briggs, a Manchester police officer — and last carried out an execution in 1939.“
Washington Post
May 30, 2019
Read More“The bill now heads to a vote by the full Senate, where it is expected to pass with a veto-proof majority. The bill, which passed the House in March with a veto-proof majority, would not spare Michael Addison, who was convicted of killing Manchester police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006. Addison is the state's only death-row inmate. New Hampshire has not executed an inmate since 1939.”
WMUR New Hampshire
April 2, 2019
Read More“Getting incarcerated for opioid-related charges presents a daunting challenge: navigate the healthcare system of a prison or jail and undertake the deeply personal work of treating mental illness. As part of our series Only in NH, in which we answer listener questions about the state, we’re addressing a question from a listener named Jeanne: how do prisons in New Hampshire deal with the opioid crisis?“
New Hampshire Public Radio
February 22, 2019
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