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Tim Walberg: As former vice chair of the corrections committee in Michigan's legislature, and during a time when I saw Michigan go…

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
As former vice chair of the corrections committee in Michigan's legislature, and during a time when I saw Michigan go from, if I recollect, 17 prisons to 36 prisons, rapid expansion, with no resultant success in dealing with crime in the State of Michigan.
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Tim Walberg
Republican · Michigan

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Walberg reflects on Michigan's prison expansion and its failure to reduce crime.

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