Herbert Hoover actually said...

Our plans necessitate an expenditure of about $5 million, and will comprise some additions and revisions of the old prisons, and probably a new prison somewhere in the Northeastern States.

Context

Statement on Plans for Federal Prison Reform.

08/05/1929

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