“Show me a prison/Show me a jail/Show me a prison man whose face is growing pale...there but for fortune/go you or I.” Our nation stills lacks empathy Phil Ochs expressed in this 1960s song & regressed. Judges & prosecutors don’t win elections on promises of protecting rights... 1/4

of the accused. “Hanging judges” win elections in the “land of the free” w/25% of the World’s prison. If prisons are meant to reform ppl & deter crime, our system is a failure. IN’s recidivism rate: 33.78%. Fed: up to 50%. Advanced nations: far lower than either IN or fed. 2/4

Art. I, sec 18 of Indiana’s Const states our penal system shall be founded on reformation & “not vindictive justice.”. We haven’t learned that a helping hand is more productive than a closed fist.
Guest tonight on Civil Discourse Now (7 pm ET) is Shyer Maguire. Her son is incarc’d in 3/4

Fed Bureau of Prisons & not for offense of violence. Watch/listen/comment at Facebook: “Mouthwash” or “Civil Discourse Now.” I’m Mark Small: pro-choice, pro-civil rts, anti-gun & pro-prison reform GOP candidate Ind House Distr 86. I approve of this blog. Hell, I wrote it. 4/4