I want to thank you so much for this opportunity to testify and before I end, I would ask special consideration before the hearing record is closed, I would like to ask if the ACLU may submit a document outlining some of the gender-related problems in our criminal justice system.
Dick Durbin: “I want to thank you so much for this opportunity to testify and before I end, I would ask special consideration before…”
On the recordDecember 8, 2014
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Durbin expresses gratitude and requests ACLU submission on gender issues in criminal justice.
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