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National Affairs By David Dagan and Steven M. Teles In the 1992 presidential campaign, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton each tried to prove he was toughest on crime. Bush touted a record of escalating the drug war during the Reagan years. Clinton...

I’ll never forget when I first began to appreciate the magnitude of this problem. It was 2004; I was working in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah. In some cases I witnessed judges forced by federal law to impose punishments that did not fit the crime...

“I will say this–it’s not my job to punish offenders who are in my facility. That’s not my job. They were punished when they received their sentence in court.” –Shelith Hansbro Commander Mark Divine talks to Warden Shelith Hansbro who has run the Decatur...

In 1997 I was elected to the local city council after writing a 25-year vision statement for the town of 50,000 the year before. I didn’t want to serve on a city council. I wanted to serve in the state legislature. I had run for that job the year before...

Click here for reuse options! With a higher incarceration rate than anywhere in the world, the United States prison system has placed its faith in Christian prisoners. The following is an excerpt from the new book God in Captivity: The Rise of Faith...