On Friday, a Chicago Sun-Times editorial titled "Prison chief is victim of political games" blamed both Quinn and Brady for Randle's resignation--saying that "election-year critics who sought to portray him as inept" led to Illinois losing someone with fresh ideas for our "dismal" prison system.
PAGE 9 Editorial THE CALIFORNIA PRISON DISASTER The mass imprisonment philosophy that has packed prisons and sent corrections costs through the roof nationwide has hit California especially hard.
I applaud your sensible editorial on cutting prison costs by limiting obstacles for incarcerated people after release.
You correctly call on President Obama to fulfill his pledge on his second day in office to "Close Guantánamo Prison" (editorial, Nov. 26).
The May 11 editorial "Shrinking the Prison Population" points out several reforms where the states are making progress in rehabilitating offenders, by providing more resources for drug and alcohol treatment, mental health services and re-entry programs.
Klara Durkin, Belica, Croatia Addressing health care in prisons Regarding "Lessons from European prisons" (Editorial, Nov. 9): The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, at a rate of more than 700 per 100,000 people, compared with 148 per 100,000 in England and Wales, which itself is high by West European standards.
The suspects were in prison; editorials called for national soul-searching; a commission, led by a retired Supreme Court Justice, was working on proposed changes to the laws against rape.
C3 Business Digest C2 EDITORIAL A26-27 EdiTheials: The prison puzzle; a thought for Interior; how Colorado got its government back; Germany's snarled politics.
Re "How to Cut Prison Costs" (editorial, Nov. 10): I was taught in law school that prison sentences have two purposes: to ensure public safety and to punish the offender.
"At 13, you're too young to watch a porn film, but you're not too young to go to prison," the editorial said.
