I'm a conservative and have been most of my adult life. I don't believe in racial quotas and I don't believe that many Republicans are racists. However, the War on Drugs plus grossly inequitable and manaditory sentences for drug possession (crack vs cocaine, etc.) are doing as much or more damage to low income, inner-city, largely minority communities than any other favorite cause of conservatives such as "decaying social mores", single mothers, welfare dependency, etc., etc. It isn't possible to build stable lives and stable communities when YOUNG MEN ARE ABSENT and when they return they've been "schooled" in prison. The idea that locking up millions of people in order to prevent crime is awesomely short-sighted. Why? Duh - THEY GET OUT SOMEDAY. Ex-cons, by and large, have no future. Having already received little education, their chances of getting a decent job are miniscule. The cycle repeats. When will this crime against humanity end?
What set me off were two recent stories. One in yesterday's New York Times
And this in MarginalRevolution:
Exonerations
with not even a crime: how many more should there be? - See more at:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/02/exonerations-with-not-even-a-crime-how-many-more-should-there-be.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29#sthash.0JFGI6VG.dpuf
Exonerations
with not even a crime: how many more should there be? - See more at:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/02/exonerations-with-not-even-a-crime-how-many-more-should-there-be.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29#sthash.0JFGI6VG.dpuf
Exonerations
with not even a crime: how many more should there be? - See more at:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/02/exonerations-with-not-even-a-crime-how-many-more-should-there-be.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29#sthash.0JFGI6VG.dpuf
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