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On the recordMarch 17, 2021
To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the Federal Government's reliance on privately operated criminal detention facilities.
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Robert Aderholt
Republican · Alabama

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Aderholt discusses the President's executive order on reducing incarceration levels.

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