The Prison Boom with Shannon Heffernan
You're Wrong About
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The Prison Sweep Stakes
This is the same era, you have to remember, when we're talking about small government. You're talking about cutting tax dollars, you're talking about taking away welfare. And it's really interesting that's happening in the same era that you're building prisons. That's a huge state project. So i think so much of this also comes to like, who deserves the programms that support them as workers, or social service programmes. Like there is not a human being. Maybe babies don't commit crimes, but everybody else does. Everybody in their life has probably committed some crime. And if not a crime, at least a wrong. It's a question of who gets punished for it
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