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Angie Nixon: “I do support abolishing for profit prisons because they exploit labor and they usher many of our children into…”

Featuring: Angie Nixon, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Florida

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U.S. Senate candidate Angie Nixon weighs in on DSA policy positions

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Calling you all comrades together, etc. So what about abolishing prisons, which is one of the platform positions of the national dsa. Do you support that? I don't support abolishing prisons. What I do support abolishing for profit prisons because they exploit labor and they usher many of our children into the school to prison pipeline. Why are we incentivizing the enhancement of penalties and actually allow the enhancement of not actually allowing the education system to be successful? (00:35–00:46)

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Supports abolishing for-profit prisons due to labor exploitation and contribution to the school-to-prison pipeline.

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