Elijah Cummings actually said...

I do not think people really fully understand the volume of African American people who are locked up for offenses like dealing with marijuana and things of that nature, nonviolent.

Context

Cummings highlights the disparity in incarceration rates for nonviolent offenses among African Americans.

03/12/2019

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