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Chitown Kev

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2. On the crime bill...

Reply to forjusticethunders (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 03:47 PM

Jul 2016

Yes, black and brown folks lobbied for that but they also wanted a heavier investment in communities in that bill (i.e. drug treatment programs)...a lot of those community investments were stripped from the final portions of the crime bill (or sharply reduced) and it wound up being a more punitive bill than originally intended.

As far as Project Exile, you can start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Exile

From a cursory reading, I think you are right about the original intent.

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