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Harold Volkmer: “what I am trying to tell the gentleman is that the State legislatures that want to do it, like Missouri wants to do it…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 1995
what I am trying to tell the gentleman is that the State legislatures that want to do it, like Missouri wants to do it, we are doing it. We have got to build new prisons. We are taking money away from higher education, from mental health and everything to build those prisons, right now in this year's budget. We already have truth-in-sentencing. It just does not meet the little bit of criteria that the gentleman writes, so we do not get any of the Federal money. But we are going to do it on our own anyway.
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri
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Discussing state-level prison funding and the impact on education and mental health.

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