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Ayanna Pressley: “I continue to be incredibly frustrated at the injustice that we have incarcerated individuals being counted according to…”

On the recordDecember 4, 2024
I continue to be incredibly frustrated at the injustice that we have incarcerated individuals being counted according to where they are being warehoused instead of being counted according to the communities that they are from.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley criticizes the counting of incarcerated individuals based on their location rather than their home communities.

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