Criminal Justice Reform

Juvenile Justice Reform

• Jessica Barnett
• August 3, 2022

Key Points The Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice Task Force (Task Force) found most youth entering the juvenile justice system committed low-level offenses and are “low risk to reoffend.”[1]Studies…

Backgrounder

Regulation

Privatization Opponents: Distorting or Ill-Informed?

• Nathan Benefield
• May 22, 2013

Critics of liquor store privatization claim that a CDC study suggests liquor privatization would result in greater social harms.  The problem: The flawed study doesn’t support that claim, and…

Media

Regulation

Anti-Privatization Study Dismantled

• May 15, 2013

A study frequently cited by liquor privatization opponents is soundly debunked in an article by Trevor Butterworth, a statistics guru at Forbes.com. Butterworth dismantles the methodology of the…

Media

Regulation

Social Impacts of Liquor Privatization

• Nathan Benefield
• April 30, 2013

Submitted Testimony of the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives to the Senate Law & Justice Committee, April 30, 2013 The Commonwealth Foundation would like to thank…

Testimony

Regulation

Consensus: Liquor Privatization No Threat to Safety

• Nathan Benefield
• April 29, 2013

A recent Philadelphia Inquirer piece tries to give both sides of the debate over liquor privatization.  But one key fact ingored was that the Community Preventive Services Task Force…

Media

Liquor Privatization: Social Impacts

• Nathan Benefield
• March 25, 2013

The PLCB has a conflict of interest-on the one hand controlling and monitoring alcohol, and on the other, advertising and marketing the sale of alcohol. Government control has not made…

Memo

Regulation

Fact Check: Liquor Safety and Proliferation Myths

• February 26, 2013

This is the second in a series of blog posts addressing the common myths opponents use against getting government out of the businesses of selling alcohol. Check out the first…

Media

Regulation

Is Liquor Liberty Dangerous?

• October 19, 2011

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board operates with a clear conflict of interest. It is charged with both enforcement and managing sales. It spends millions to advertise alcohol products.

Media

Education

Waiting at the Cradle

• Matthew Brouillette
• October 16, 2002

"Hey, what about the kids?" That is the slogan for a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign called "Focus Five for Kids," created to highlight children's issues during the Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign.

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