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Senate candidate Mandela Barnes once supported cutting prison population in half

By Asher Notheis
Published September 8, 2022 8:57pm ET
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Senate candidate Mandela Barnes once supported cutting prison population in half
FILE - Wisconsin Lt. Gov. and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes participates in a televised Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Senate debate in Milwaukee, July 17, 2022. Barnes, a Democrat running against incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, has repeatedly advocated for cutting the state's prison population in half. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)


Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, a candidate in Wisconsin’s Senate race, has advocated numerous times in the past for the state to cut its prison population in half.

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