Category Archives: incarceration

William Galston writes at The New Republic The Tucson Shooter and the Case for Involuntary Commitment: …the most important and least contestable facts are getting lost: Jared Lee Loughner was mentally ill when he pulled the trigger, there were multiple … Continue reading →

In 2011 criminal sentencing reform might be on the table. Collapsing state budgets and ever-increasing prison populations (and the costs associated with them) are forcing the issue. Republican Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, has recently endorsed a plan to help reduce … Continue reading →

A little bit more for the previous post. First check out this post about conservatives and crime by Adam Serwer. It’s important to expand on why, especially in the late 1970s and 1980s, how much the ascendant conservative approach to … Continue reading →

Tim Carney asks, as a New Year’s resolution, to not to do battle with faceless ideologies. Carney is interjecting into a specific problem, that of the conservative movement and prison population. Carney: But on Twitter, Serwer repeatedly characterized the “conservative … Continue reading →