Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150923:02:33:00
The old fashioned idea and real idea about kids falling under some bad influences. what are the larger dynamics out there that government has created that have led to this dra ma'matic increase in our pr population? >> yeah. that's a pretty fundamental question, lawrence. if we go back to the early 1970s, our prisons held about 100,000 people on any given day that were locked up. that was 0.1 of 1% of the population were locked up back in the 1970s. these days if we look at the prison population, it's about 500 per 100,000. so we're five times larger than we were 40 years ago or so. and this h...
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