Something novel happens when you lock up more repeat violent offenders for longer. Believe it or not, crime begins to drop.
Many Republicans who bought into the lie of “criminal justice reform” seemed to have forgotten this lesson from the 1990s, as we enjoyed a decades-long decrease in crime. But as crime surged again in recent years following the proliferation of weak sentencing laws, the trend is swinging back in states that learned the lesson from the Koch-funded jailbreak agenda.
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