The video below is a 7-minute interview with Mark Kleiman, professor of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles.  Choice quotes:

Right now we’re imprisoning people we’re mad at; we should only be imprisoning people we’re afraid of.

We should be striving for having as little crime as possible, with as little actual punishment as possible.

Watch:

Via BoingBoing.

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