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"The federal resources that have gone into the drug war have been heavily oriented toward police and incarceration rather than treatment. We need to shift that use of resources"
This shows that he truly wants change in the penal system. drug related charges are very anti climatic because people are always going to find ways to get drugs no matter what so why not help rather then punish.

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Marc Mauer is the executive director of the Sentencing Project, a group that advocates for criminal justice reform and addressing racial disparities in the United States criminal-justice system. the way he affected the penal system is huge. he has had many bills signed to change the racial injustice amongst the prison population. he wanted to see change in the prisons. at the start it wasn't even about racial inequality in the prisons just more about equality and treating the people who are in there better. he then saw the disparity between the number of minorities in the jails and non minorities.

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I believe that prison should be more about the transformation of a person more or less then punishing them for there actions. 8% of our veterans take up the prison percent in the united states. on either drug charges or robbery. why cant we help those that fought for our country and get them help for there problem. 77% of ex cons go back into the prison system within the first three years out! that is almost 8/10! that number is appalling to me, why is that though? the reason for that is because of low income results in higher crime. when you get out of prison you have nothing. if they could even teach them a trade or anything productive while they're in the prisons recidivism rates would go down rapidly.

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"Your job as a prosecutor is to get a conviction, just as your job as a defense attorney is to get an acquittal,"
the reason for this quote represents the purpose of what people are meant to do. why does it make sense for a human to WANT to put another human away in a cage like an animal. just so they can be seen as a better worker?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3x1Z_5QUPs
7:06-48:49- this speech was about abolishing life sentences.