America’s criminal justice system has been overhauled before and the results haven’t been so good, posted here, and this new attempt, as noted by the Huffington Post, based on a perspective that begins by seeing effective police work filling prisons as somehow bad, rather than the individual choices responsible for people becoming criminals, will probably suffer the same fate.
That being said, we always wish those who attempt to make things better with the criminal justice system, the very best, and our prayers are with this newest effort should it come into being.
An excerpt.
“America's criminal justice system is broken.
“How broken? The numbers are stark:
“• The United States has 5% of the world's population, yet possesses 25% of the world's prison population;
“• More than 2.38 million Americans are now in prison, and another 5 million remain on probation or parole. That amounts to 1 in every 31 adults in the United States is in prison, in jail, or on supervised release;
“• Incarcerated drug offenders have soared 1200% since 1980, up from 41,000 to 500,000 in 2008; and
“• 60% of offenders are arrested for non-violent offensives--many driven by mental illness or drug addiction.”
Lampstand Foundation website, http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/
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About
- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.