Ezra Klein Archive: Crime and punishment

Finishing what they started

Ross Douthat calls on conservatives who successfully took ownership of the "crime issue" in the '80s and '90s to also take responsibility for the mass imprisonment that's been the consequence of their approach: Mass incarceration was a successful public-policy tourniquet....

By Ezra Klein  |  December 15, 2009; 9:12 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (7)
Categories:  Crime and punishment  
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