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Joseph Moody: “You probably do want to get what you consider felony drug…”

Featuring: Joseph Moody, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 78

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Criminal Justice The Next Five Years

Published | Video Starts at 31:42

You would. I mean, you have to take two different approaches, I would say, to get there, or one of two different approaches. You probably do want to get what you consider felony drug offenders, those maybe without violent history, out of the prison system. Those are folks that maybe you can track back into society in a productive way. I think that's the population that most people are talking about figuring out how to fix that. (31:42–31:51)

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Asserts that felony drug offenders without violent history should be removed from the prison system.

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