Attorney General: 'it's the right thing to do'

When Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation Leann Bertsch announced a new Justice Reinvestment program to reduce the prison population and cut recidivism, this column hailed the program with a quotation from “Governing,” a magazine for state and local governments, “North Dakota is conducting a prison experiment unlike anything else in the United States.”

Leann had been to Norway and found that...