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Jon Tester: “Somewhere this system of juvenile justice is broken and it is especially broken for Native children.”

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
Somewhere this system of juvenile justice is broken and it is especially broken for Native children.
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Tester highlights systemic failures in juvenile justice affecting Native children.

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