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[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Good op-ed, until the 2nd-to-last sentence. Those non-violent offenders (as he reference earlier) are mostly folks with drug-possession convictions. Some are lifers because they’ve had three convictions on minor war-on-drug offenses. They’re not pushers, or folks who provide drugs to get kids hooked. Instead they are victims of the latter-day Prohibition, except without Prohibition’s attention to Constitutional niceities.

“Three strikes” is not the biggest problem with prison overcrowding; the unconstitutional War On Drugs is.

[43north]

Oh just shoot the damn things!

[Artemis Webb]

I have no interest in the issue of prisoner rehabilitation. Prisoners are there to be punished, not rehabilitated.

However;
But for nonviolent offenders, more appropriate punishments such as restitution and community service make so much more sense—for our communities, for victims, and for the overcrowded prison system."...is a statement I can, in general, agree with.

If your back is against a wall and the choice is to let repeat nonviolent offenders go vs even one time violent offender it is, GENERALLY SPEAKING, a no-brainer.

[Clintonfatigued]

There are only two solutions- build more prisons, and release a small number of non-violent marajuana offenders.