Roland Burris: “My hometown has 14,000 people and there are 900 in the prison. Of…”

On the recordFebruary 22, 2010

My hometown has 14,000 people and there are 900 in the prison. Of those 900, 800 of them are from Chicago.

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Burris discusses the impact of prisoner counts on his hometown's population.

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Roland Burris: “My hometown has 14,000 people and there are 900 in the prison. Of those 900, 800 of them are from Chicago.”