The Washington Post offers up a story bound to make conservatives cringe.
It seems that states are releasing felons in order to save money.
After many years of trumpeting the "tough on crime" mantra, it seems that fiscal conservatives must pay the fiddler. It's rather easy to be "tough on crime" when the taxpayers are footing the bill.
This is one of those cost-benefit analyses where it's more cost-effective to let society absorb the cost of some crime than to pay for room, board, and upkeep.
The idealism of conservatives is of a crime-free world. The rest of us adults know that's only a pipe dream.
Maybe next on the agenda will be the decriminalization of drugs.
One can only hope.
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