Far better ways to fight crime than imprisonment

By Faye S. Taxman and Danielle S. Rudes

The Free Lance-Star

Published: Friday, April 6 2012 4:56 p.m. MDT

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For more than 30 years, the primary mechanism for crime fighting in the United States has focused on building and expanding the capacity of our prison systems — a phenomenon visible at federal, state and local government levels (with more cells and larger budgets).

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procuradorfiscal

Tooele, UT

There's only one better way to fight crime -- morality.

Anything else is bound to fail.

Our Nation needs to throw off the amoral relativism foisted on us by godless liberals and return to honesty, decency, and the love of More..

7:22 p.m. April 6, 2012
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Midvaliean

MIDVALE, UT

@John Charity Spring
Once again you didn't read the article nor do you see what is happening in real life. Drug convictions are filling our prisons. We all agree to imprison violent and sexual offenders. Why then do they seem to get out More..

8:15 a.m. April 7, 2012
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Midvaliean

MIDVALE, UT

"The era of mass incarceration." A sad day that we have allowed this to happen. This is how it works:
States build jails. By keeping jail beds full they request more funding to build more jails. They keep jails full by passing laws to More..

8:08 a.m. April 7, 2012
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