“Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?”

Salon.com column http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/05/23/prison/index1.html
On Republican opposition to a bill legislating dental care for pregnant prisoners.

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American- Israeli writer 1964

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