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Brad Schneider: “This legislation, and the legislation that we just voted on, the 'Prison to Proprietorship Act,' will empower those…”

On the recordNovember 19, 2019
This legislation, and the legislation that we just voted on, the 'Prison to Proprietorship Act,' will empower those leaving the federal prison system.
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Brad Schneider
Democratic · Illinois

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Schneider discusses the empowering effects of the Prison to Proprietorship legislation for former inmates.

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