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Your partial quote of my sentence changes the meaning!

I understand prison can serve more purposes than deterrence, I said it only serves that purpose when people understand why they’re there.

This guy doesn’t seem like a violent danger to anyone that needs to be separated from society physically. He needs to be separated from a computer, which is perfectly doable outside of a prison.



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