“As part of the Obama administration's criminal justice reforms, “38,000 prisoners were released from federal prison.”
Joe Biden
Democratic presidential nominee. in the final presidential debate. Claim dated 22 Oct 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 22 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 October 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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