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On the recordMay 12, 2021
If we know that the overwhelming majority of people in our prisons around the United States are Black and brown and that they did not graduate high school, how can we continue to see those reductions in arrests and incarcerations by the school playing a better role in the process?
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Val Demings
Democratic · Florida

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Demings questions the role of schools in reducing arrests and incarceration rates.

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