We know that tough-on-crime policies for children have been tried repeatedly elsewhere and have failed. So why is my country headed that way?

An evidence-based approach to criminal justice would tell us that policing works and long prison sentences do not.

Readers worry that “our lives are at stake” if he becomes health secretary but also find areas of agreement. Also: Unity, not revenge; criminal justice in New York.

I am surrounded by men who live with regret. And that regret is an incarceration every bit as real as the towering walls around us.

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