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Tuesday, May 06, 2003 

Another interesting wrinkle to the article just mentioned - if things became as follows: "Pay-for-performance should become the rule of contracting, whether the performance measure is the number of GEDs inmates earn, or the crime- and drug-free status of graduates of the reentry programs that prepare inmates for release", then prisons might actually become more progressive than society at large when dealing with drugs. Today's Obvious Message With No Redeeming Subtlety is as follows: The War on Drugs does not work and is congenitally flawed.



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