Criminal Justice Reform: The Election

http://http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/upshot/no-1-public-enemy-of-criminal-justice-reform-the-election.html

In February, a dizzyingly wide coalition encompassing the conservative Koch Industries and the liberal Center for American Progress announced an effort to try to overhaul the system. Several Republican presidential contenders as well as numerous other politicians on both sides of the aisle have spoken of the need for reform. Now Hillary Rodham Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential contender, has joined the chorus, calling on the country to “end the era of mass incarceration.”