ALEX SEITZ-WALD AND ELAHE IZADI: ...He still feels confident that he sent bad guys away as a police officer, but he had no idea how many OTHERS get snared in the net. A good father, a young person who made one mistake, a commercial fisherman who caught too many fish—people whose lives would be forever changed by a felony conviction. The system, he says of a machine he embodied as much as anyone for decades, is broken. Now hes taking his message to his fellow conservatives—and finding them surprisingly receptive. ...The packed ballroom, if a bit skeptical at first, murmured along in agreement as the panelists framed the issue in decidedly CONSERVATIVE notes: the fiscal responsibility of reduced prison terms, the Christian compassion of redemption, the rolling-back of big government.
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