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John Oliver weighs in on extreme unchecked power of District Attorneys

In John Oliver’s usual style, this is informing and entertaining.

This entry was posted in district attorney, district attorneys and tagged John Oliver, Mass., massachusetts, Sept. 4 primary, vote on August 19, 2018 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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