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Charles Rangel: Locking up people in jail doesn't make any monetary sense, doesn't make any social justice sense.

On the recordMay 20, 2009
Locking up people in jail doesn't make any monetary sense, doesn't make any social justice sense.
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Charles Rangel
Democratic · New York

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Rangel criticizes the effectiveness and fairness of the incarceration system.

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