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On the recordMarch 9, 2011
The claim that prisons will generate scores of terrorists spilling out into the streets of our cities--the position described at the opening of this paper--seems to be false, or at least overstated.
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Bennie Thompson
Democratic · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Thompson emphasizes that fears of prison radicalization are exaggerated.

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