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Markwayne Mullin: “Facilities have been shut down because they were too…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Rather than just looking at warehouses, we're going to look at county jails that may be in default on their USGA grant or USDA grant. I mean, we're going to be looking at Facilities have been shut down because they were too expensive to operate because states or counties didn't have the budget. to build to do the maintenance that needs to be done on it, where we can bring those, purchase them, bring them up and immediately have beds available. (14:01–14:20)

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Asserts that facilities were closed due to high operational costs and insufficient state or county budgets.

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