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    Sledgehammer Sentence
    Sledgehammer Sentence
    Sledgehammer Sentence
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    Sledgehammer Sentence

    By Chidi Ezeobi

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    The book Sledgehammer Sentence is nostalgic feeling of isolation and confinement, going crazy when you found yourself in 7-by-10 foot concrete cell that had a solid metal door with a small window made of hard plastic. In a society willing to incarcerate more than is necessary to accomplish [legitimate] goals of sentencing.
    A good many were put in there for donkey years for acts of nonviolent rule breaking. You witness firsthand wasted resources, dangerous overcrowding and needless over incarceration that takes a large individual and societal toll. Billions of tax payer’s dollar wasting and loss of individual freedom that results in family broken.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateApr 17, 2020
    ISBN9781982246334
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