Cory Booker: “This is a for-profit private prison, profiting off of all of…”

“You know, this is a call from right wing organizations like the Cato Institute to officials who are seeing what's going on. So number one is This is a for-profit private prison, profiting off of all of this pain, $1 billion contract, and we're not even allowing adequate oversight. Number two is the people that are there. Overwhelmingly, as a Cato Institute calls out the hypocrisy of the Trump administration who've done no crimes. These are people that are often have American children.” (00:37–00:48)

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