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Samuel L. Jackson: We lock people up. They come home. And what we don't realize is that then we have communities that have an…

On the recordJuly 19, 2017
We lock people up. They come home. And what we don't realize is that then we have communities that have an overconcentration of people who go in and out of prison, which actually kind continues the cycle of violence.
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Samuel L. Jackson
Indiana

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Sheila Jackson critiques the cycle of incarceration and its impact on communities.

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