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We're Number One … at throwing non-violent offenders into prison for life!<\/p>\n

'I write often about human rights abuses abroad. But when we take young, nonviolent offenders \u2014 some of them never arrested before \u2014 and sentence them to die in prison, it\u2019s time for Americans who care about injustice to gaze in the mirror.'<\/i><\/div>\n

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Serving Life for This?<\/a>
\n In America, nonviolent offenses are getting grotesque punishment.\n <\/p>\n

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We're Number One … at throwing non-violent offenders into prison for life! 'I write often about human rights abuses abroad. But when we take young, nonviolent offenders \u2014 some of them never arrested before \u2014 and sentence them to die in prison, it\u2019s time for Americans who care about injustice to gaze in the mirror.' … Continue reading “The War on Drugs and the Living Death”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135164,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/true-horrifying-cost-early-release-prison-programs.html","url_meta":{"origin":39693,"position":0},"title":"The true, horrifying cost of early-release prison programs","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Oct-17 11:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sheriff Steve Prator of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, is very, very upset over a new set of laws passed in the state that will early-release a bunch of his county prisoners -- non-violent and non-sex offenders. 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