Chief Justice of Alaska calls for Smart Justice

Chief Justice Walter Carpeneti, Juneau, Alaska, asks the legislature to consider Smart Justice. The idea that jail time is the fitting response to every crime, or even to most crimes, has become an expensive and a possibly unnecessary proposition. “We need to move from anger-based sentencing that ignores cost and effectiveness to evidence-based sentencing that focuses on results”, he said.
http://www.alaskapublic.org/2012/02/29/chief-justice-talks-about-%E2%80%98smart-justice%E2%80%99/