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WiM058 - The Hillebrand Series | Episode 5 | Crime and Punishment

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Is There a Victimless Crime?

There's a big cohort of prisoners that are in there for victimless crimes like possession of cannabas, just possession and personal use of canabas thid. And this too, it just saddles the taxpayer with additional cost, right? Where it worth? I mean, the numbers are staggering too. In new york, which was one of the more expensive jurisdictions, i read that it was like a hundred thousand dollars per year to food to feed and shelter one of prisoners in in the new York penal system. That's incredible,. For a guy that had a plant in a bag, rightt with no victim at all. But it just, i think you just take a

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