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Trump Uses Bully Pulpit To Support More Services For People Leaving Prisons

Prisoners' advocates expressed optimism after a White House meeting with the president. But the bipartisan effort to overhaul the way criminals are punished has downsized its goals in the Trump era.
President Trump speaks during a meeting on services for people leaving prison in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Thursday.

President Trump campaigned on a promise of law and order. He courted endorsements from police unions. And he even hinted to an audience of police officers that he supported the idea of roughing up suspects (the White House later said he was joking).

But on Thursday, the White House deployed the "" on behalf of

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