Should Prosecutors Pursue Minor Crimes?
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The Importance of Second Chance Prosecution
I want to take back to you now, John. The logic that I've heard from the other side of the argument is that if you bust somebody for stealing diapers or jumping a turnstile and you bring them into the system at any sort of level or any sort of depth, they get a criminal record. That stays with them when they try to get a job. If they spend a little bit of time in jail, they're away from their families. They might get fired for that time. Our job is not just to convict people and lock them up but to make the community safer. When he was a state's attorney, I started a diversion program for retail theft where charges would
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