Over the last several weeks, your editorials have provided sound opinion and recommendations on critical "bookends" to criminal justice policy.

The editorial Feb. 7 commented that "Rockefeller drug law reform" enacted by the state Legislature in December should only be a first step in more widespread changes to those draconian laws. The editorial Feb. 11 urged restoration of the right to vote to ex-felons. Together, these point to a new way of anchoring criminal justice policy in reintegration rather than punishment.

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