Statement·other·said 2015-07-27
“We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders.”
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Verdict
Mixedby PolitiFact
2015-07-31Reasoning
544 facilities added between 1990-2005 matches roughly one every 10 days; however, violent offenders drove 60% of state prison growth in that window, so framing it as a "nonviolent offenders" explosion overstates the case.
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