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Jeff Sessions: “I just would say to my colleagues I think there is a decline in Federal and State incarceration rates from the time 1981…”

On the recordNovember 5, 2013
I just would say to my colleagues I think there is a decline in Federal and State incarceration rates from the time 1981 when I was made United States Attorney.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions highlights a decline in incarceration rates since the 1980s.

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