Editorial: The Senate's chance at bipartisan prison reforms
by Chicago Tribune
Dec 03, 2018
2 minutes
In the early 1990s, with the nation besieged by a surge in violence and a crack epidemic, the American public and its leaders decided that there was no such thing as being too tough on crime. Federal and state laws provided stiffer sentences for a variety of offenses; new "three strikes" laws mandated life terms for habitual offenders. Between
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