Video: Rep. Rashida Tlaib defends her bill to empty out federal prisons of all inmates

Rep. Rashida Tlaib defends her bill to empty out federal prisons of all inmates, telling Axios : “Look at who’s in prison now.”

Notorious Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib found herself backtracking in a recent interview on her own policy stances after being called out for supporting a bill that would have abolished all prisons within 10 years.

Asked by Axios reporter Jonathan Swan about her support for the BREATHE Act, which calls for the Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services to create a roadmap for the “full decarceration of federal detention facilities within 10 years” and “a moratorium on all new federal prison, jail, immigrant and youth detention construction,” Tlaib found herself in an unenviable position.

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