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By: Dick Durbin

Date: March 9, 2021

Issues: Criminal Justice

"Solitary confinement is just about as cruel a thing as you can do to a person and we do it to far too many Americans in our federal prison system. I plan on working with the Biden DOJ to reform our system of criminal justice and bring change to our federal prisons."

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