Because 90% of all prisoners in the United States are in state facilities, the work that states are doing to reduce their prison populations is crucial. Attempting to end mass incarceration necessitates realizing this is a situation requiring not one national solution, but fifty state solutions. Below are current state solutions that could be effectively modeled by other states for meaningful reform.
"'I think anybody who's talking about that is driving away from the real issue in this race,' Walker said. 'I don't hear from voters about visiting anybody other than visiting victims of crime, who want me to focus on making sure that the violent criminals who'd be let out under the Democrat plan are not going to be let out any time soon'."
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
August 9, 2018
Read More"One solution is to have fewer crimes. There are — literally, as I noted in the Columbia Law Review a few years ago — so many crimes that not even the government can keep up with them all. The more crimes we create, the more criminals we create."
USA Today
August 7, 2018
Read More"It cannot be argued that Ms. Gonzalez committed an offense under Florida law. Nor can it be questioned that if Florida citizens find social utility in protecting queen conches that they have every prerogative under the law to do so. Nonetheless, many aspects of this case demonstrate the troubling extent to which criminal law is being degraded and brought to bear over activity that isn’t obviously criminal in nature."
Right on Crime
July 23, 2018
Read More"Citizen Virtual Patrol allows the public to watch the livestreams of dozens of surveillance cameras across the city. If Newark’s mayor gets his way, these cameras will be the first of several hundred. These cameras are unlikely to reduce crime. What’s more likely is that they will establish a neighborhood panopticon manned by nosy residents thrilled at the prospect of being informants or vigilantes."
Cato Institute
May 11, 2018
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