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On the recordMarch 16, 2009
Now, if you look at what we are spending just on the counterproductive part of that incarceration and divide it out, you are talking about $3,500 per child per year.
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David Scott
Democratic · Georgia

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Scott discusses the high costs of counterproductive incarceration spending.

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