[There are] two million American children with an incarcerated parent. [And jail is] exactly where we will send [those children] one day if we do not begin to reform the criminal justice system. We must re-evaluate who we lock up, why we lock them up and how we lock them up …

We need to challenge ‘three-strikes-and-you’re-out’ laws and mandatory minimum sentencing, responsible for filling 60% of our federal prisons with drug offenders, many of whom have no prior criminal record for a violent offence … (New Life, 8 Jun. 2006)

So who is this weak-kneed, namby-pamby milksop campaigning to flood the community with social vermin? Convicted Watergate conspirator and now fire-breathing conservative evangelical Charles Colson, that’s who.

You see, Colson spends most of his time ranting against abortion, gay and lesbian rights, IVF, pornography and a whole lot of other things with which he’s totally unqualified to deal. But he did spend time in prison and he’s learnt a lot about the problems faced by prisoners through his Prison Fellowship organisation.

So when it comes to involving himself in an issue he actually knows something about - yes, you guessed it, Chuck Colson turns into a liberal!

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