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Prison reform: An unlikely GOP issue

Prison reform has normally been an issue embraced by Democrats, not Republicans. But, perhaps, like so many other things in the Trump administration, this, too, is about to change.

Last Thursday, President Trump held a roundtable discussion at his Bedminster, New Jersey, property, five governors were in attendance.

According to the , 37.8 percent of prison inmates in the U.S. are black, 58.3 more, more, sentenced more harshly and confined to prison longer, even for minor infractions.

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