Cory Booker calls Biden an ‘architect of mass incarceration’

Published July 24, 2019 12:04pm ET



DETROIT — Joe Biden may be attempting to right the wrongs of the 1994 crime bill, but for his Democratic presidential primary rival Cory Booker, it is too little, too late.

“For a guy who helped to be an architect of mass incarceration, this in an inadequate solution to what is a raging crisis in our country,” the New Jersey senator told reporters on Wednesday after speaking at the 110th annual NAACP convention.

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