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Cory Booker: “When we see our infrastructure crumbling in this country, yet we have the resources between 1990 and 2005 to build a new…”

On the recordAugust 3, 2015
When we see our infrastructure crumbling in this country, yet we have the resources between 1990 and 2005 to build a new prison in the United States every 10 days, that runs against our fiscal prudence and our values as a Nation.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Booker points out the misallocation of resources towards prisons instead of infrastructure.

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