Letter Spotlight: J. Steven Smith

What to do with our prisons is a question that has been begging for an answer for the last 100 years. Now, with serious budget shortfalls and overcrowded prisons, we may be willing to tackle the question.

Depending on the person, place or time you ask an elected official, he will say that Indiana uses the state prisons to incapacitate the dangerous, educate the ignorant, punish the evil, motivate the lazy or scare the potential criminals among us.

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