By The Center for Michigan - September 10, 2007
Cops catch a parolee-turned-serial killer in Lansing and the maddening tough-on-crime mantra grows louder. A long line of Michigan politicians "have used fear instead of reason to exploit a handful of high-profile cases to justify Michigan's unreasonably high incarceration rate," the Freep writes. "The result has been enormous increases in prison populations and costs, with little or no effect on public safety."
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