The Texas Public Policy Foundation is at the forefront of a broader rethinking of criminal justice issues by many advocates of free market-oriented policies. There is an increased recognition that alternatives to prison for nonviolent offenders can both reduce recidivism and costs to taxpayers.
Criminal Justice
AMLO, The Cartels, And The Curious Case Of RCQ
“Imagine the suspicion, the jokes, the memes.” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, “AMLO,” presides over a country ravaged by cartel violence and spiking homicide rates, decimated economically by the COVID-19 pandemic, and well behind the curve in immunization rates. Yet on a Monday morning in early May, his concerns about Mexico’s global reputation were...
June 4, 2021