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> the number of state prisoners that have had 15 or more prior arrests is over 26%

So one reading of this statistic is "incarcerating people turns them into criminals"

which suggests that maybe the better way is something else than locking people up and giving them a black mark which prevents them ever getting a viable job?

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>which suggests that maybe the better way is something else than locking people up and giving them a black mark which prevents them ever getting a viable job?

The fact is that there are a sizeable number of people, for a variety of reasons, who don't have the interest or capacity in holding a viable job. It would be nice if this wasn't the case, but the world exists as it exists, not as we wish it would.

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