Tag Archive: overcriminalization
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The Right Solutions to Prison Problems: How Texas’ good policy is spreading across the nation
ALEC Blog Team | March 27, 2012 | Add a commentBy Representative Jerry Madden, TX For more than two decades, the motto shaping our criminal justice programs had been “tough on crime.” It is the mindset that led legislatures across the country to pass harsher sentencing laws, and led the United States to the highest incarceration rate in the world. … »
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A Threat to Personal Liberty – And How States Can Respond
There are 1,700 statutory offenses in Texas state law, including 11 felonies relating to harvesting oysters. It’s now almost status quo for criminal law to be used to regulate ordinary business activities, an example of our ever-growing government. The most prominent recent example of this was the raid of Gibson … »
