In order for the city of new york to break the contract with the prison guards, necessarily a new body, decision making body has got to slide into the already existing complexity. So well have the strongest imaginable executive who will then lift the problem of prison well being and prison rehabilitation for women engender expansive people of the realm of politics. This is the word they keep using, culture, that's then put into a motion by technocrats. In the context of everything that we've been talking about, i think we can see this story of what is being debated right now in city of New York.
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