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.
“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
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