On the recordJanuary 28, 2014
Last, and I apologize to Senator Grassley, but we talked about the Federal prison population--this is something of concern to many of us here--has grown by more than 500 percent in the last 30 years.
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Leahy highlights the significant increase in the federal prison population.
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