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Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie P. Meek

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Carrie P. Meek
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: April 29
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Tallahassee
Florida
Carrie Pittman Meek
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