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On the recordFebruary 24, 2014
The last question I will ask relates to testimony--we have some excellent witnesses coming in the later panel--about women, particularly pregnant women, who are placed in restrictive housing and solitary confinement.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin addresses the issue of women in solitary confinement.

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