Word: ellises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Lungren often appeared flustered and unable to respond to the arguments of Ellis and Mauer, he remained light-hearted about his unpopular position.
Ellis cited fear as the main reason for the skyrocketing number of prisons being built.
"America has always needed a bogeyman...and the criminal has become the bogeyman," Ellis said.
During the question-and-answer period, Ellis, Mauer and the crowd came down heavily upon Lungren's views, with Ellis claiming that "punishment will never be effective in the long term" and that "we are mortgaging our futures" with current prison policies.