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On the recordAugust 19, 2015
So then as part of, again, community based justice, in order to successfully reenter, so you've got to have a place to live, you have to have some value there and that typically comes through a job, but now you've come back and you got a felony record and nobody wants to hire you and the comment was made, but you know, you can't get your driver's license, if you will, you've got all of these limitations.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski emphasizes the challenges of reentering society after incarceration.

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