Is Mike Lee really the person to be writing about criminal justice reform when he engaged in a reletless, repetitive and partisan character assassination attempt to destroy the political career of a woman? There was no justification for the length of time or the amount of money spent on their expedition to find anything they could possibly find to discredit a politician simply for being a Democrat and a strong presidential candidate. When an investigation was coming up short, they dropped inuendos and fueled conspiracy theories.

This writer lost me with his comment that violent crime increased in Obama’s last two years and decreased in Trump’s first two. Beside the fact that neither president had anything to do with these statistics, if this guy isn’t educated enough to know that two years of anything is trivially insignificant in discussing crime trends, anything else he has to say is more than likely just some more Fox News agenda garbage. How about we talk about the real problem here: Republicans have been using fear of crime and tough sentencing to get elected for decades. The trouble now is, hurting people who break the rules is really, really expensive, and it has to be paid for by taxes. And we know how the GOP feels about taxes. This guy couldn’t care less about how many lives tough on crime policies have ruined. All the GOP cares about is money. Privatize all the prisons and watch this supposed GOP desire for reform disappear.

Prison reform = Prison for law abiding people. Releasing violent predator psychopaths seems to be a trend now with the ruling class. A populace cowering in the face of evil makes the ruling class much more powerful. Chaos, murder and mayhem have always been tools of the left to promote totalitarianism. Let's debunk the myth of so-called "non-violent" inmates. It is practically impossible to ever see the inside of a jail cell without committing multiple violent felonies. There are NO low-level druggies in prison. All crime is violent crime. This is about nothing but money and power. Liberals have made it so costly to house inmates that politicians are desperate to get that money to reward illegal alien predators and other Democrat voters. .

Prison and Justice reform. These go hand and hand, one without the other is impossible. lets start with why we incarcerate people, we incarcerate for every type of offense. I believe that this is wrong, we need to incarcerate only for public safety. Crime and punishment need to go hand in hand, would you have your kid mow the lawn and shovel the driveway because he did not complete his homework? Hopefully you answered no, you would have taken time away from one of their other activities to give more time for the homework, with a discussion on why homework needs to be completed. Someone steals something they should have to repay that debt. ...See more

We have a greater proportion of our people locked up than any country on Earth, yet we are less safe than any other first world country. Maybe we should try to learn from how other nations are handling crime.