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Richard Nixon: Our correctional systems must be changed to make them places that will correct and educate.

On the recordMarch 10, 1971
Our correctional systems must be changed to make them places that will correct and educate.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Opening Session of the National Conference on the Judiciary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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