>It's not clear to me that the voting population has required significant convincing to stay 'tough on crime'. That's the key. Ultimately it's the public whic

>It's not clear to me that the voting population has required significant convincing to stay 'tough on crime'. That's the key. Ultimately it's the public which decides how tough sentencing is. People who are trying to blame shadowy capitalists or (laughably) libertarians are really barking up the wrong tree. We have a whole bunch of people in jail because the public wants them there.