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One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
Val Kilmer
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Val Kilmer
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 31
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Val Edward Kilmer
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