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Cory Booker: When we see poor people being ground up into a system but for the fact that they do not have the resources for their…

On the recordAugust 3, 2015
When we see poor people being ground up into a system but for the fact that they do not have the resources for their liberation, that we have modern day debtors' prisons in our country, that runs contrary to our common values.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Booker criticizes the justice system's impact on the poor, likening it to debtors' prisons.

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