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Dean Spade – founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and author of the new book, “Normal Life” – explains how the US became the most imprisoning nation in the world. This is part one of a two-part interview with Spade. To watch the second part go to GritTV.org. Distributed by OneLoad.com.
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