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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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My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
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I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.
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