Cara Sullivan

Recidivism Reduction: Community-Based Supervision Alternatives to Incarceration

Recidivism Reduction: Community-Based Supervision Alternatives to Incarceration As a result of failed corrections practices, our criminal justice system has created a revolving door of offenders. More than 40 percent of…
Raising the Minimum Wage: The Effects on Employment, Businesses and Consumers

Increasing the minimum wage may seem like a tool to raise low-income workers out of poverty, but it inevitably hurts the very people policymakers intend to help. When the government…
Criminalizing America – How Big Government Makes a Criminal of Every American

There are more than 1.5 million Americans under the supervision of state and federal correctional facilities, at a cost of more than $30,000 per prisoner every year. While some criminal…
ALEC 2013: Jobs, Innovation and Opportunity in the States

With unemployment remaining stubbornly high, and most Americans worrying about pocketbook issues like jobs, energy costs, retirement security, and health care affordability – ALEC releases its plan for Jobs, Innovation, and…