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No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't need federal prisons. We need state crimes and state prisons.

I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society... to be incarcerated.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.