Joe Biden, Cory Booker, the 1994 Crime Bill and the future: How to unwind American mass incarceration
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Daly News
May 23, 2019

As the 2020 field of candidates gets more crowded, Democrats have started weaponizing one of the most influential pieces of criminal justice legislation in the last 50 years — the 1994 Crime Bill. Joe Biden, a key author of the bill when he served in the Senate, has doubled down, while his primary opponents correctly point to how it helped contribute to mass incarceration.

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