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Government

Jul. 21, 2001

Prison Population Deserves, Needs Voice in Democracy

Alexis de Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America," observed in the 1800s that you could judge a country by the way it treated its prisoners.

        By Pablo Agrio
        
        Alexis de Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America," observed in the 1800s that you could judge a country by the way it treated its prisoners.
        Prior to my incarceration, I was under the impression that crime was punishable only by fine or imp...

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