March 7, 2025
Surprisingly, Indiana has the most individuals serving life sentences in the nation, ballooning the cost of incarceration for taxpayers, and ignoring the fact that many in their 70s and 80s are not a threat to society. The fact that we continue to imprison the elderly—far past the likelihood of returning to a life of crime—is an affront to common sense as much as it is to Judeo-Christian values.
May 7, 2024
The 1994 Crime Bill with its "three strikes" mandatory life sentence fed the fire of mass incarceration and actually did little to reduce crime. There is strong criminological evidence that life prison terms, with or without parole, do little to improve public safety because eventually people "age out" of the statistical criminal age group. Could there be a 2nd chance for some?
March 21, 2024
While there is a push by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to give life sentences to people who commit 'speech crimes,' there is a large contingent of people with mental issues in our prisons and jails, who need help, but how? (Probably not LIFE imprisonment.)
