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Cory Booker: We were building a new prison every 10 days, hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, incentivized by us here in…

On the recordJune 27, 2017
We were building a new prison every 10 days, hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, incentivized by us here in the Federal Government.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker points out the rapid expansion of the prison system and federal incentives.

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