Our under-incarceration problem, sex offender and carjacker edition

For the better part of a decade, I have argued that America has an under-incarceration problem. What I mean is that too many criminals with records showing they should be in prison are on the streets, free to commit more crimes — and, in fact, committing them.

Now, with the violent crime rate having surged in the past few years, a few liberals are acknowledging the under-incarceration problem (though not daring to describe it in those words).

One such liberal is Colbert King, who writes thoughtfully about the District of Columbia for the Washington Post.