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Bernie Sanders' biggest promise about mass incarceration is impossible

REUTERS/Mike Segar After a number of Democratic debates in which criminal justice got barely any air time, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton spent several minutes agreeing with each other Thursday night about holding police officers accountable for criminal misconduct, getting rid of racial disparities in sentencing, and bringing down the prison population. On this last point, Sanders trotted out an absurd promise he has used several times before: that by the end of his first term, the United States will no longer be the world leader in incarceration. What Sanders means by this is that under just four years of his magical leadership, the U.S.

 

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