Tom Cotton / IMAGE: Fox News via Youtube Despite the mainstream media ‘s routine push to frame America’s prison system as a network overloaded with petty criminals, America actually has an under-incarceration problem, according to an op-ed written by Sen. Tom Cotton , R.-Ark.
According to Cotton, anti-law-enforcement and anti-prison rhetoric from leftists have had dire effects on the American justice system.
“Ill-conceived anti-prison policies rooted in platitudes, lies, and misleading statistics have unleashed thousands of criminals onto the streets,” Cotton wrote. “As a result, our nation is grappling with a de-incarceration crisis that is costing lives and eroding the rule of law.”
Leftists who have argued that prisons are too full, forget—intentionally or not—that the majority of crimes in the United States go unsolved or unreported, he said.Moreover, he continued, the average criminal serves only 44% of his or her initial sentence, despite the fact that most prison sentences are artificially […]
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