After Republican governments in Texas and Georgia lent their conservative imprimatur to criminal justice reform, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Ohio followed with substantial legislative packages. In general, the new laws entailed lower penalties for nonviolent crimes, non-carceral sanctions for parole and probation violations, drug court diversion, credits given for good behavior in prison that applied for early release, or a rollback of “truth in sentencing” laws. With no great fanfare, against the run of the recent past and in the face of pressures from within their own party, red states have emerged as leaders in criminal justice reform.
Prison Break is an elegant account of these developments, Kathleen Frydl writes in her review. But it misses some significant parts of the story, such as the red-state drug problems that helped to trigger red-state criminal justice reforms.
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