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Samuel L. Jackson: “What we have done over the last 30 years is we have come up with so many laws, gang enhancements, to incarcerate a lot…”

On the recordJuly 19, 2017
What we have done over the last 30 years is we have come up with so many laws, gang enhancements, to incarcerate a lot of people, and I don't think that we've necessarily spent much time looking at the root causes as to why people get involved in gangs.
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Samuel L. Jackson
Indiana

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Critiquing past approaches to gang issues and advocating for addressing root causes.

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