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Steve Cohen: “Perhaps not coincidentally, these burdens are disproportionately borne by people of color.”

On the recordMarch 4, 2020
Perhaps not coincidentally, these burdens are disproportionately borne by people of color.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Cohen points out racial disparities in the impact of unjust imprisonment.

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