Letters to the Editor: Opposing views on Proposition 47 and a new 'tough on crime' ballot measure
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To the editor: UC San Francisco Professor Meghan Morris asks voters to reject a tough-on-crime ballot measure because it would crowd prisons. Interestingly, on April 30, you ran an op-ed article calling on California to close under-used prisons to save money. Give me a break. A high prison population is the natural outcome of a high crime rate. We ought to do the hard work of getting people to commit less crimes. The perverse idea of treating the prison population as a "crisis" on its own and...

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