Christopher Hudson Jr. > Recent Status Updates

I’m familiar with Brennan’s general thesis, but am interested delve deeper into Brennan’s response to Cohen after just reading Cohen’s book earlier this month.

“Explanations of Prison growth have focused so much on broad social upheavals that they have largely overlooked the role played by institutional failings.”

“[T]he idea that lower crime is the only acceptable goal simply isn’t true. There are other, competing goals that are also desirable.”

“These [criminal justice] agencies do not interact with each other smoothly, and one unintended consequence of this poor design is that prosecutors have ended up with almost unfettered, unreviewable power to determine who gets sent to prison and for how long.”

“[T]here is no single ‘war on drugs,’ but rather somewhere between 50 and 3,300 wars on drugs, fought with varying degrees of intensity at different times, in different jurisdictions, and in different ways.”