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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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