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“We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.” quote by Rose Bird — Download Open image

“We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.”

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