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Sheriff Stephen Tompkins sums up the problem. What’s the solution?

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This entry was posted in Mass. Department of Corrections, Massachusetts, mental health and prisons, recidivism, Sheriff, voices behind bars and tagged addiction, education, Sheriff Tompkins, substance abuse, women on April 25, 2017 by Susan.

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Interesting articles on criminal justice reform

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/the-only-man-who-can-fix-mass-incarceration-is-barack-obama/382314/?single_page=true http://www.brennancenter.org/publication/reforming-funding-reduce-mass-incarceration

From Piper Kerman, author of “Orange is the New Black.”

“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient—people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled.”

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