Bill Clinton: “We simply cannot jail our way out of America's crime problem.”

On the recordJune 8, 1996

We simply cannot jail our way out of America's crime problem.

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Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion on Juvenile Crime in Las Vegas, Nevada

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