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Chaka Fattah: “We still have not figured out any real connection between this imprisonment and lowering the crime rate.”

On the recordMarch 9, 2009
We still have not figured out any real connection between this imprisonment and lowering the crime rate.
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Chaka Fattah
Pennsylvania

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Fattah questions the effectiveness of imprisonment in reducing crime.

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