TUESDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2018
The Incalculable Costs of Mass Incarceration
John Pfaff: Prisons carry enormous, perhaps impossible to measure social costs—but when assessing the system fiscally, reformers should focus on staffing salaries instead of the number of incarcerated people.
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California's Bail Reform Effort Lands on Judges
LaDoris H. Cordell and Miriam Aroni Krinsky: To avoid replacing one unjust system with another, the California judiciary must dedicate itself to presiding over a system that is fair and equitable.
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Few Officer Misconduct Complaints Are Sustained
James Queally: In a state with some of the strictest police privacy laws in the country, those who make complaints against officers are entitled to learn little more than whether their allegations were found to be true or not.
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Supply-Side Epidemic Theory Is Killing People
Zackary Siegel: Injecting a regulated pharmaceutical of known dose and purity is less risky than injecting a bag of white powder purchased on the street.
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