Small mercy.

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionEditorial

Some states have already bowed to pressure from homeowners to reduce their property taxes. Unfortunately, this also means reduced revenues, which in turn means reduced services to the public.

In one state, however, it looks like reduced services will have at least one salutary effect. California plans to release 22,000 nonviolent inmates from its prisons.

I've long thought that the primary purpose of prisons should be to protect the rest of us from the violent. Probation is the...

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