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Robin Kelly: “Our criminal justice system has different effects on unique populations as you have raised.”

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
Our criminal justice system has different effects on unique populations as you have raised.
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Robin Kelly
Democratic · Illinois

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Kelly discusses the disproportionate impact of the justice system on people of color.

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