->> Not at all. I would prefer to focus on the fact that GHW Bush was
->> instrumental in establishing a similar program in Texas,

 EC> Not similar at all.  Massachuestts gave furloughs to
 EC> prisoners doing life without parole.  The federal program
 EC> did not do that.  No other state program did that.  But
 EC> Dukakis vetoed an attempt to close that loophole.  This was
 EC> all covered earlier in the thread.

 No, it actually was not covered earlier in the thread. Not in
 any that I saw.

 And it was a similar program. If there were no differences, they
 would be identical. These were similar, not identical.



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