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On the recordApril 10, 2016
The only thing I wish I'd said is first of all, yes, there are too many people in jail. Yes, a small percentage of them are in federal prison, and yet -- and Hillary was the first person in this campaign in either party to say we should reduce the prison population but we can't let people out without education, training and guaranteeing that they won't be denied the right to a job or they get ask.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Bill Clinton addresses the criticism of his 1994 Crime Bill, acknowledging the issue of mass incarceration while defending Hillary Clinton's stance on reducing the prison population.

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