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Raphael Warnock: “The United States of America warehouses, more of its people…”

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

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Sen. Raphael Warnock on Trump, Redistricting Chaos, and the Midterms

Published | Video Starts at 34:41

Yeah, I mean for all of those prisons. And again, we have more prisons than anybody in the world. I mean, think about that. The United States of America warehouses, more of its people, literally more people in prison and a greater percentage of its people than any other nation on the planet. including those whose human rights records we love to deplore. So think North Korea, think Iran, think China. We got more people. And that's the policy that we followed again through Republican and Democratic administrations for decades. (34:41–34:53)

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Warnock claims the U.S. imprisons more people and a higher percentage of its population than any other country.

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