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In last night’s presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed that 99% of immigrants fail to appear in court.This is patently false.Here are the facts: According to @verainstitute research and the federal
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Today, @RepDavidTrone and @RepArmstrongND introduced The Community First Pretrial Reform and Jail Decarceration Act, a bill to reverse decades of federal policymaking that made rural America a driver of #massincarceration.
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When the pandemic began, there was an unprecedented drop in the no. of people held in local jails nationwide. @verainstitute estimates that from mid-March to mid-April, the jail population decreased
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