Levin: Prison is good for…

July 28, 2014

Marc Levin, J.D.

Marc A. Levin is the Chief Policy Counsel at the Council on Criminal Justice and Senior Advisor to Right on Crime.

Levin: Prison is good for people that we're scared of, but not people that we're mad at.

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