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Chris Coons: The costs, both the lifetime costs, the moral cost, the fiscal costs on African-American men in particular, as my…

On the recordDecember 8, 2014
The costs, both the lifetime costs, the moral cost, the fiscal costs on African-American men in particular, as my colleague, Senator Booker detailed earlier, is overwhelming.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

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Highlighting the significant costs of the criminal justice system on African-American men.

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