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and a change of heart take place in america. it s time, too, that we acknowledge the solution to the crime problem will not be found in the social workers files, the psychiatrists notes or the bureaucrats budgets. to deny bail to a defendant posing a threat to the community, to make prison sentencing more certain, to end abuses of parole. retribution should be swift and sure for those who prey on the innocent. ronald reagan laying out some of the foundational logic of the american criminal justice system such as it is. i d like to bring in michelle alexander, law professor at ohio state university and author of a fantastic book called the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. good morning, michelle. good morning. michelle, this is a fantastic book. i hope people read it. one of the things i think that s interesting in the book is you talk about your own experience of coming to recognize what the system was doing and what we are

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