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Prison reform has become a hot topic in America. Two and a half million people are locked up in the land of the free. For the first time in our nation's history, over half of our prison population are twenty five years old or younger. One third go into the system for nonviolent offenses, but two thirds come out having learned to be violent. Eighty percent have been convicted of a crime where drugs and alcohol played a part in their offense. Prison has become big business and the war on drugs fuels what appears to be a broken system built to fail, and where recidivism is on the rise... Is there
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