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On the recordJuly 11, 2019
If you send equipment some place and more goods, and you send one toilet to serve 500 people, that is not sanitary.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley highlights inadequate sanitation in detention facilities.

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