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Cornyn: Momentum Building For Criminal Justice Reform

Statement

Date: Oct. 27, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Criminal Justice

During a press conference today, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) spoke on the bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, which the Senate Judiciary Committee approved 15-5 last week.

Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn's remarks are below.

"The President's in Chicago today talking about criminal justice reform, and as you know, there's… a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, one composed of sentencing reforms and also prison reforms which are, generally speaking, preparing prisoners for reentry into society so they don't end up in the turnstile of the criminal justice system and end up back in prison."

"And so I'm very encouraged by the vote that we had in the Judiciary Committee. With the President's support for the idea of criminal justice reform, it seems like the time is right."


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