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State senator investigates problems of poverty, race in court system

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Milwaukee Senator Lena Taylor is on a mission to improve the state’s criminal justice system. This week she begins a series of public hearings across the state to gather testimony on what is, and isn’t, working in the state’s courts and prisons. Gil Halsted reports…

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