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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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Jerry Brown
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 7
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San Francisco County
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Edmund Gerald Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.
Edmund Gerald Jerry Brown Jr.
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We`re not going to have a backlash. We`re going to build a consensus. And I live in the real world, not the kind of fantasy goals that we would all like, but we would never achieve if we go about it in the blunderbuss fashion that your question would assume.
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