[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 118 (Friday, August 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 19, 1994]
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                 BUILD GENERATIONS, NOT JUST MORE JAILS

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, everybody has a preference for which way 
we should go, and I must say, as I hope we take up this historic crime 
bill, the reason it is historic is the House tried to come down for the 
first time on the side of attempting to build generations and not just 
more jails.
  Mr. Speaker, there has never been a society in civilization revered 
for the number of jails it built. We have now built more than any 
society in the history of the Earth, and it has not worked while we 
continue building them in there to try to catch up on the shortfall. 
But for the first time we tried an ounce of prevention, and people went 
nuts with all sorts of disinformation around here.
  This information was that it was all going to be social workers; 
wrong, there is no social worker money in here; that there was no 
funding for police; wrong, $7 out of every $10 in this crime bill went 
for either law enforcement officers, prisons or detention facilities, 
$7 out of $10. The last $3 were prevention.
  Let us build generations and not just jails alone.

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