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"At a time when America's prison population is growing, laws criminalizing the most mundane activities are on the rise, states have a financial incentive to keep private prisons at capacity, and the courts are inclined to side with law enforcement in matters of security, we would do well to keep in mind that whatever treatment is meted out to 'the least of these' in our society is no different from how the rest of us will eventually be treated. In the government's eyes, we are all prisoners of the American police state," Whitehead said.
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