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Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

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Bobby Scott
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 30
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Robert Cortez Scott
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Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities.
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And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.
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We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.
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Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
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If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.
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Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
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While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
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It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
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Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
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Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.
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The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
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It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
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The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
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We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.
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The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
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Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
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I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.
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