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Cory Booker: To do this at such a massive expense to the taxpayer, unnecessarily egregious expenditures, where we spend about a…

On the recordAugust 3, 2015
To do this at such a massive expense to the taxpayer, unnecessarily egregious expenditures, where we spend about a quarter-of-a-trillion dollars a year incarcerating human beings, many of whom do not need to be incarcerated at the lengths in which they are, runs against our values.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker highlights the financial burden of mass incarceration on taxpayers.

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