Sen. Booker Visits Federal Prison in Fairton, NJ

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U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) visited Federal Correctional Insitution Fairton in Fairton, New Jersey, earlier today to tour the facility and speak with inmates in the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), Vocational Training Program, and the Restrictive Housing sections of the prison.

"Our criminal justice system is broken and needs to be fixed," said Sen. Booker. "Warehousing so many nonviolent, low-level drug offenders in our federal prisons is a waste of taxpayer dollars and human potential, and isn't making us any safer. Seeing a federal prison firsthand and meeting with officers and inmates was an experience that reinforced to me the urgent need to reform a system that puts costly confinement before rehabilitation, fairness, and common sense."

Since arriving in the Senate in 2013, Sen. Booker has worked with colleagues on both sides of the aisle on reforms that address all aspects of the American criminal justice system. From working on legislation to reduce recidivism and address juvenile solitary confinement, to addressing the school to prison pipeline, to fixing federal sentencing laws for non-violent offenders and addressing the national indigent defense crisis, Senator Booker has been a leader in the U.S. Senate in reforming our nation's criminal justice system.

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