It’s not soft on crime to improve public safety outcomes in the justice system

By Brett Tolman

Published May 20, 2017 3:06pm ET

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It’s not soft on crime to improve public safety outcomes in the justice system — Because we do not devote enough evidence-based resources to rehabilitating these low-level criminals, roughly half of all federal drug offenders are arrested again within eight years of their release. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) | Rich Pedroncelli

Our prisons don’t need to be finishing schools to build better criminals.

During my tenure as the U.S. attorney in Utah, I watched too many low-level offenders emerge from long prison sentences more dangerous than they were when their sentence began. After watching this pattern repeat itself again and again, I realized we need a better approach.

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