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Tom Tiffany: “In my home state of Wisconsin, back when I was in the state…”

Featuring: Tom Tiffany, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

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Congressional Discussion on Faith-Based Prison Programs and Federal Corrections with Tom Tiffany

Published | Video Starts at 03:49

So I think getting doing all that we can to make sure that that is the population within the federal prisons, because they are most, they're just better equipped to deal with it I than any other system in the country. In my home state of Wisconsin, back when I was in the state legislature, we had a youth correctional facility that the ACLU came in and sued to prevent them. The staff, they restricted the staff from using certain measures that they had used for a long, long time. And the day that the Judge accepted the ACLU's brief and said, we're going to accept the policies that you're suggesting for us, the young people in the correctional facility … (03:49–04:05)

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Asserts that the ACLU sued a youth correctional facility in Wisconsin to restrict staff measures.

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