The following article is provided by the Caesar Rodney Institute, a Delaware-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) public policy research organization.
It comes from a Policy Center Director who works to help Delawareans by providing fact-based analysis in four key areas:
education, energy and environmental policy, the economy and government spending, and health policy.
While not all judges are as wise as Solomon, judicial decisions are a cornerstone of our legal system. Delaware’s incarceration rate spiked after adoption of mandatory sentencing was adopted. Bottom line, we may simply have 1500 more people in our over-crowded prisons than is justified by best practice costing Delaware $50 Million a year.
About the Caesar Rodney Institute
The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) is a Delaware-based, nonprofit 501(c)(3) research organization. As a nonpartisan public policy think tank, CRI provides fact-based analysis in four key areas: education, energy and environmental policy, the economy and government spending, and health policy.
Our mission is to educate and inform Delawareans-including citizens, legislators, and community leaders-on issues that affect quality of life and opportunity.
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