Commentary: Texas Criminal Justice Model A Resounding Success
Texas has managed to reduce its incarceration rate while saving taxpayers hundreds of millions and reducing crime.
Texas has managed to reduce its incarceration rate while saving taxpayers hundreds of millions and reducing crime.
Pelican President, Kevin Kane, advocates cost-saving approaches adopted successfully by other states.
Louisiana’s stand as the nation’s leader for incarceration is the target of five new bills from the state’s Sentencing Commission.
On Saturday, the Shreveport Times ran an op-ed coauthored by Kevin Kane of the Pelican Institute and Mark Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. They note that the Bayou State has the highest incarceration rate per capita in the United States, and an address of criminal justice reform is overdue.