On the recordApril 20, 1994
I support this amendment. The fact is that we owe it to the American people. If we are not going to execute violent criminals, we owe to them to try to rehabilitate them. That is what this is all about. If people are willing to make the effort to get a college education, to make themselves constructive members of our economy and society, we ought to give them the ability to do so. We just had a hearing with the head of the Bureau of Prisons. She felt very strongly we do not have the resources to do all that the Congress is telling us we have to do. This is one opportunity to get the resources to enable people to get real rehabilitation, make sure when they get out into society they have something to contribute and we do not have to worry about them recommitting those crimes. All the Wynn amendment says is we ought to study this issue and not kill the program before we know whether or not it is going to work.
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