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Raphael Warnock: “We have more prisons than anybody in the world.”

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 34:38

As if like we can't be tough on crime and also not be the capital mass incarceration capital of the world. 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. (34:38–34:41)

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Warnock claims the U.S. has more prisons than any other country.

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