While most states realized how costly "truth and sentencing" was, bankrupting their economies and shortchanging school funding, Rep. Scott Suder and Gov. Scott Walker have decided to go in the other direction. In their roles of playing the disciplinary father figures, Walker and Suder believe the political cost to them is even greater if they don't appear tough on crime, so who cares about the added cost to taxpayers.
ChippewaHerold: The state Senate has approved a Republican measure that would all but end a program that grants criminals early release from prison … (releasing) well-behaved prisoners as a means of alleviating prison crowding. About 500 inmates have been released through the program between October 2009 and this past March. The bill would erase almost all the early release provisions.
Senate Democrats complained repealing the program would lead to spending billions on prison expansion.
The ever frugal tightfisted fiscal conservatives answer?
Republicans countered that early release undermines truth-in-sentencing.
Yes, we know, that’s why it saves money on what is a really dumb, costly, chest pounding “tough on crime” cliché.
Assembly Majority Leader Scott Suder (R-Abbotsford) authored the repeal bill. He says … that it also endangers the public.
Even with concealed carry? Mission accomplished "scaredy-cat" Scott.
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