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Cory Booker: Why cannot I or the public get the same kind of transparency in reporting that we would get with the prisons that are…

On the recordAugust 3, 2015
Why cannot I or the public get the same kind of transparency in reporting that we would get with the prisons that are directly under the purview of Director Samuels?
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker questions the lack of transparency in reporting from private prisons compared to public ones.

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