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Cory Booker: one in three African-American males born today can expect to be incarcerated at some point unless we make a change.

On the recordDecember 8, 2014
one in three African-American males born today can expect to be incarcerated at some point unless we make a change.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Emphasizes the high incarceration risk for African-American males.

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