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Jim Webb: The national disgrace of our present criminal justice system does not present us with the horrifying immediacy of the…

On the recordJune 10, 2009
The national disgrace of our present criminal justice system does not present us with the horrifying immediacy of the 9/11 attacks.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Jim Webb compares the urgency of criminal justice reform to the 9/11 attacks.

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