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On the recordMarch 22, 2016
I'm not for releasing anybody who was guilty, but I'm also not for keeping people in prison year after year after year with no trial.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Advocates for due process and against indefinite detention without trial.

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