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Drug Policy

iscooterliberally

(3,040 posts) Mon Apr 2, 2012, 02:01 PM Apr 2012

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Fahreed Zakaria on US Prisons.

Land of the free? I don't think so. You can believe what you want, but the facts don't seem to work out on that one. Yeah...and Pat Roberston blames it on 'the liberals'. I caught that. I guess by today's standards, Nixon and Reagan are liberals too.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2012/03/30/fareeds-take.cnn#/video/politics/2012/03/24/gps-fareeds-take-tax-reform.cnn

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Fahreed Zakaria on US Prisons. (Original Post) iscooterliberally Apr 2012 OP

our christian policitians like what happens to people in prison or they would change things nt msongs Apr 2012 #1

Restorative justice vs punative justice duhneece Apr 2012 #2

msongs

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1. our christian policitians like what happens to people in prison or they would change things nt

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Mon Apr 2, 2012, 02:09 PM

Apr 2012

duhneece

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2. Restorative justice vs punative justice

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 2, 2012, 02:17 PM

Apr 2012

Putitans vs Quakers....then, when you add the profit motive of private prisons.

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