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238. The United States of Cory Booker

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Criminal Justice Reform

More than half of American states have been making criminal justice reform, lowering their prison populations. The way we conduct a criminal justice belies common sense, fiscal sense and moral sense. When you take a non violent offender, lock em up, they often lose their job. And then you do things like the incredible use of solitary confinement in this country,. You'll find a lot of data on how that actually triggers mental health problems.

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