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Tom Tiffany: “The day that the Judge accepted the ACLU's brief and said…”

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 04:07

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 went on the roof of this facility and taunted the guards, saying, you can't touch us. Is it surprising to you that a couple years later that a staff youth counselor was killed in that facility? Oh, in all honesty, sir, I couldn't address that. (04:07–04:26)

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Asserts that after a judge accepted the ACLU's policies, youth taunted guards at a correctional facility.

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