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On the recordJune 10, 2009
We find ourselves as a Nation in the midst of a profound, deeply corrosive crisis that we have largely been ignoring at our peril.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Jim Webb addresses the ongoing crisis in the criminal justice system.

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