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Steve Bannon: “Prisons are very dangerous for the non-violent young drug…”

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Published | Video Starts at 01:56

No, no. I appreciate the distinction. And did prison radicalize you or were you already radicalized? I was radicalized, but it opened my eyes to a lot. To a lot. Prisons. These Prisons are very dangerous for the non-violent young drug offenders put in there for 10, 15, 20, 25 years. Danbury is a very small place when you have to live the next 20 years of your life in a prison that's 100 years old, that's supposed to have 800 inmates, that has 1,200 because of the overcrowding, because so many foreign nationals. (01:56–02:06)

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Asserts that prisons are dangerous for non-violent young drug offenders serving long sentences.

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