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‘Compassionate’ conservatism: When it’s more important to jail innocents than let one guilty person go
In a long-ago high school civics class, I was told that our legal system is predicated on the idea that it is so important to prevent harm to one innocent person that we would rather see some of the guilty go free than punish those who have done no wrong.…
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