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Joel Brennan: “In Minnesota state, that's same size, same population, same…”

Featuring: Joel Brennan, Democratic | Candidate, Governor of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 42:24

It's Department of corrections. There's like 11,000 people who work in the Department of corrections out of 35,000 people in state government, almost one in three. Do you know that In Minnesota state, that's same size, same population, same crime rate. They have about 8,000 people incarcerated in state prisons. We got, like, 23,000 in Milwaukee. We got more people working in the department, Department of Corrections, that they have in state prisons in Minnesota. Like, these are things. Now. (42:24–42:33)

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Asserts that Minnesota, with similar demographics and crime rate, has about 8,000 incarcerated individuals.

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