Cory Booker actually said...
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.
Context
Booker highlights the financial burden of mass incarceration on taxpayers.
08/03/2015