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Debbie Dingell: “People are using drugs in these prisons, and how are they…”

Featuring: Debbie Dingell, Democratic | U.S. House, Michigan, District 6

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U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell talks Michigan's 6th Congressional District race

Published | Video Starts at 03:19

They're there for a reason. But we've got to make sure that their circumstances are not killing them, as so many of us have discussed. But we also need to understand that People are using drugs in these prisons, and how are they getting them? How do you protect people from them? That's an issue that was new to me, that paper, drugs on paper is the newest thing. And what do we do to prevent that? (03:19–03:24)

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Asserts that drugs are being used in prisons and questions how they are being smuggled in.

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