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Lyndon Johnson: “The best law enforcement has little value if prison sentences are only temporary and embittering way stations for men…”

On the recordSeptember 15, 1966
The best law enforcement has little value if prison sentences are only temporary and embittering way stations for men whose release means a return to crime.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Letter to the Attorney General in Response to a Progress Report on the Bureau of Prisons' Work Release Program.

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