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Inbox Preventive Detention

By Norman Ravitch *62
Published online November 3, 2020
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In Response to: How New Jersey Made a Bail Breakthrough

A civilized society needs more people of doubtful intentions and records in jail, not fewer.

Norman Ravitch *62
Savannah, Ga.

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