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Ron Johnson: “I mean, I think if any member of this Committee had the opportunity to meet the hundreds of women that I did time with…”

On the recordAugust 3, 2015
I mean, I think if any member of this Committee had the opportunity to meet the hundreds of women that I did time with, you would probably walk away from getting to know those women with a deep feeling that their confinement in a prison cell or a prison facility was just a colossal waste and not an appropriate way of intervening in the things that put them into the criminal justice system.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Johnson reflects on the impact of incarceration on women for non-violent offenses.

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