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A Big Idea for Texas Monthly: Slash Texas' prison system

I neglected to mention that Texas Monthly published a short blurb I wrote in their May "Ideas" issue - the one with Joel Osteen on the cover - touting "82 various and visionary ideas for how to make Texas a better place (Better than it already is, of course, which is pretty darn good)." My piece was in the printed magazine, but here are the ones they published on the web.When he asked for my contribution, TM editor Jake Silverstein said the idea proposed "should be as daring, unusual, and ambitious as possible (even to extent of being entirely unworkable, so long as it?s a conversation-starter)." So here's what they published from me (at least, after their fact checkers updated the numbers):Texas should dramatically slash its prison population and eliminate a majority of felony crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).