Ken
Cuccinelli, former Virginia Attorney General and GOP candidate for Governor has
come out in favor of prison reform. In a June 19th Op Ed in The
Washington Post, Cuccinelli – a stalwart conservative – wrote the following:
“In short,
we must reserve our harshest and most expensive sanctions – prison – for
violent and career criminals while strengthening cost-effective alternatives
for lower-level, nonviolent offenders …
With
today’s sophisticated assessment tools, we can better sort offenders and match
them with the levels of treatment and community supervision that offer the best
chance for them to stay crime free.”
Mr.
Cuccinelli is right. It’s time for the Republicans and Democrats in Richmond to
come together and reform Virginia’s broken, expensive criminal justice and
corrections system. Too much money and lives are being wasted.
Governor
McAuliffe, reach across party lines and embrace Mr. Cuccinelli’s stance. Do it
for the good of the Commonwealth.
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