Pubdate: 31 Jan 1999
Source: Wisconsin State Journal (WI)
Contact:  http://www.madison.com/

NO POLITICIAN WANTS TO LOOK SOFT ON CRIME

In your Jan. 17 editorial on prisons, you wrote "For good measure, how
about a moratorium on crime bills that add to the prison crowding problem?"
Now which politicians do you think are going to risk a 'soft-on-crime'
label in proposing such a moratorium?

Peter Webster, review editor, International Journal of Drug Policy, Le
Cannet, France 
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