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Harry Reid: “87 percent of the people in our prison system are high school dropouts. I think that says it all.”

On the recordJune 26, 2002
87 percent of the people in our prison system are high school dropouts. I think that says it all.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the correlation between education and incarceration rates.

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