Ethics

In Praise of Jim Webb

By Ed Brayton

It takes a lot for a politician to impress me, but Jim Webb, the first term senator from Virginia, has done it. He is pushing hard on one of the most important but politically dangerous public policy issues there is: prison reform. He gave a speech on the Senate floor last week that was as eloquent as it was risky, condemning a "justice" system that locks up far too many people and calling for serious change. A long excerpt from that speech below the fold.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 01, 2009 (boomark / email).