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Raphael Warnock: “The United States of America, the land of the free, is the…”

Featuring: Raphael Warnock, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks at length about the Iran war, voting rights and more

Published | Video Starts at 16:37

What's wrong with that? That's what we're supposed to do, lock them up. Yeah, people should pay for their crimes. But The United States of America, the land of the free, is the mass incarceration capital of the world. And looking at the statistics in your book, it's not close to is. No nation comes even close. (16:37–16:44)

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Asserts that the U.S. has the highest rate of mass incarceration globally.

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