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Not everyone in prison is there because of violent crime.


Even stronger - the majority of people in prison are not there because of violent crime.


Be careful about making the incarceration debate a non-violent offender issue.

The issue is more complicated: plea bargains, additive sentencing, predatory prosecution, lack of public defense, and many issues..

You Americans have a lot of things to fix, there is no simple solution.


I don't think that's true: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/26/16008508/m... contains the statistic that 52.9% of state prisoners in the US are in there for a violent crime




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