There is a lot of talk these days about fiscal responsibility and accountability.  This must include a reform of the criminal justice system, specifically prisons.  They are hugely expensive and inefficient, and they do not have a great success rate.  American Thinker was contacted by Pat Nolan to discuss the need for reforming these agencies. Mr. Nolan is a former California state legislator who is Director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform at the American Conservative Union Foundation and belongs to the conservative criminal justice reform movement Right on Crime.  He knows firsthand what it is like to be incarcerated.  He told American Thinker, "Everyone in my family and all of our neighbors had been victims of crime.  I came from a family that was pretty pro-police.  I was very much the 'we need more prisons' type.  This changed when I saw prison from the other side of the bars."  In 1993, Nolan...(Read Full Article)