Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190601:23:33:00
Federal prisons. what the crime bill did though was actually export federal dollars to states to do some bad things. our prison population went from 300,000 in the early 1970s to over 2 million because the crime bill subdiezed the construction of prisons. we were spending $6 billion in 19807. $807 billion last year. that change the landscape. because now we built the prisons states needed to fill them. and that problem made us the country with the highest rate of incarceration in the world. but they did other things. it expanded the death penalty. legislate myselfed mandatory seasoning when we...