“Cash-strapped states are increasingly turning to alternative sentencing methods and to streamlined probation and parole as a way to keep low-level offenders out of prison and in their communities…. The measures include drug courts, which allow low-level drug offenders to avoid prison time through treatment and intense, personal, weekly intervention by a judge….” (Washington Post ^[1], Monday)

Would anyone freely lay out his own money to persecute nonviolent drug sellers and consumers?

FEE Timely Classic
“The Drug War’s Assault on Liberty” ^[2] by Lance Lamberton