Criminal justice needs a new investment strategy

Published October 21, 2015 8:22am ET



Our criminal justice system is broken. Lives, families and communities are laid to waste while over two million Americans languish in prison. Local, state and federal corrections budgets are ballooning, and we are no safer in return. Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson declared war on crime, we have established beyond a shadow of a doubt that we cannot arrest our way to peace and prosperity. We’re ready for new ideas about criminal justice reform, and ownership of positive change is up for grabs.

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