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On the recordNovember 13, 2019
One in five individuals who are incarcerated are incarcerated awaiting trial. That ought to shock and alarm everyone in this country.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Cicilline highlights the alarming rate of pretrial incarceration in the U.S.

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