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On the recordJune 18, 2012
I do not think this makes the situation any better. Some of them are stuck in a cell with somebody who is worse off than they are. It is a threat to them.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin discusses the negative impact of double-celling in prisons.

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