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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...assault or weapons possession. Nationally, however, just over half of all prisoners are locked up for such crimes, and in Georgia, for instance, the overwhelming majority of prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes. The rest are not angels with dirty faces but crooks, to be sure?thieves, mostly???stupid or bad or both. Yet they are not generally the outlaws who make it scary even to think about going downtown for dinner and a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Are Prisons For? | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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