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Andrew Cuomo: “I closed more prisons than any governor in history.”

Featuring: Andrew Cuomo, Democratic | Former Governor of New York

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If you don't enforce rules, you have chaos. Right. Nobody wants to see anybody go to jail. Nobody. And by the way, I closed more prisons than any governor in history. All right, so nobody wants to see anybody go to jail. But you go too far to the other extreme. You know, that pendulum swings too far to the other extreme. (1:00:58–1:01:04)

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