The merits of prison reform.

        Conduct research on the merits of prison reform. The B.S. in Criminal Justice library guide is a good place to start your research. The Colson Task Force issued a report calling for the federal Bureau of Prisons to reduce its population by 60,000 inmates and to reserve mandatory minimums for violent offenders only. It also urged Congress to create a path for prisoners who have served more than 15 years to apply for shorter sentences by asking their judges to give their cases a second look. Please respond to the following in a substantive post: Defend reforms such as these to those who take a tough-on-crime stance.