It’s cute that this author thinks the Democrats are motivated by some notion of fairness or the rule of law, so that convicts like Madoff “must” be released as part of any criminal justice reform. We see what all that concern about prosecutorial abuse, the rights of the accused, and “restorative justice” is worth when the accused is someone like the Duke Lacrosse players, George Zimmerman, or Roger Stone.
This view is perfectly consistent. Criminal justice reform, for them, has nothing to do with fairness, actual justice, or even good policy. Both “reform” and the justice system itself is a weapon to be used against the left’s enemies, “white supremacists,” the “patriarchy,” and “capitalists.”
I’m in favor of keeping younger criminals locked up for good. I’m as law and order as they come.
But its a waste of money to keep grandpa locked up until he dies.