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Education is Better than Punishment: Something We Can All Support!
Loaded on Dec. 3, 2014
by Vivian D. Nixon
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2014, page 38
Filed under:
Statistics/Trends,
Education,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Release and Reentry.
Location:
United States of America.
Education is Better than Punishment: Something We Can All Support!
by Vivian D. Nixon
I learned in the harshest way possible that in the United States of America, every felony conviction, no matter what the judge officially assigns in months or years, quite literally results in a life sentence. As ...
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