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The Price of Justice: Time to Invest in Criminal Justice Reforms

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That's the title of a fresh post at Huffington Post by Ginny Sloan of the Constitution Project and Jon Gould, Director of the Center for Justice, Law and Society at George Mason University.  LINK  An excerpt from this must-read:Although the economic downturn is severely stretching businesses, state coffers, and family budgets, we must not allow it to endanger the nation's criminal justice system and to increase the risk of wrongful convictions. Only by investing in reasonable criminal justice reforms now can we avoid enormous human and financial costs later. Over the past twenty years, hundreds of people who were wrongfully convicted were cleared when DNA proved their innocence. Scores of others likely languish in prison because no DNA evidence exists that might clear them...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).