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Harold Volkmer: “Do we want to build more prison out there so that we can put these crooks away and keep them there where they should be…”

On the recordFebruary 1, 1995
Do we want to build more prison out there so that we can put these crooks away and keep them there where they should be, or do we want to make the States put an 85 percent truth-in-sentencing law? Which one?
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Questioning intentions behind prison and sentencing policies.

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