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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “But now if you are in a halfway house, which is, of course, imprisonment, you are still not released from prison, you…”

On the recordDecember 12, 2017
But now if you are in a halfway house, which is, of course, imprisonment, you are still not released from prison, you are still charged 25 percent.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton criticizes charging inmates 25% of their earnings while in halfway houses.

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