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phantom power

(25,966 posts)
Fri Jan 31, 2014, 10:18 AM Jan 2014

Are there no prisons?

I'd like to see a SOTU speech where graphs like this are featured as exhibits.

I talked with Peter Moskos yesterday, former Baltimore cop, now a professor of criminal justice at John Jay. We talked about drug legalization, mostly. His book, In Defense of Flogging is a pretty powerful indictment of the brutal, failed US prison system.



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