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Jack Kingston: Now the pictures; you have some good pictures right here, but you also had some smaller pictures which I know you could…

On the recordMay 14, 1997
Now the pictures; you have some good pictures right here, but you also had some smaller pictures which I know you could not blow them all up, but the jail itself that these Americans are in looks like what you would envision a jail looking like maybe 50 or 60 years ago. Odors, stains on the wall, dampness, puddles on the floor, cracked ceilings, paint chipping off, graffiti on the walls, and I think worse, prisoners mingling about the rapists and the murderers with the check bouncers.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Describing the conditions of jails during a discussion on prison reform.

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