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On the recordJuly 15, 2019
We need to not just lock people up, but we need to, as I like to say, bury them alive. We need to actually help them.
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Madeleine Dean
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Advocating for rehabilitation over incarceration in the justice system.

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