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SixthSense

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2. it is a good thing

Reply to Cleita (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 9, 2012, 02:32 PM

Jan 2012

the less money going to prisons, the fewer people will be imprisoned

given our astronomical incarceration rate such a correction is absolutely necessary - we imprison more people than open dictatorships

Prison ruins lives.

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Jerry Brown's California budget slashes $1 billion from prisons [View all] SixthSense Jan 2012 OP

Don't know what to think about this. Cleita Jan 2012 #1

it is a good thing SixthSense Jan 2012 #2