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Summer Lee: It means everything if a mother could stay with her child. I don't know that to coming back to a nursery type situation…

On the recordJuly 15, 2019
It means everything if a mother could stay with her child. I don't know that to coming back to a nursery type situation without your child is going to do any good.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Emphasizing the importance of mothers staying with their children during incarceration.

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