“We can specifically and demonstrably now show that there are 17,000 people unjustly incarcerated in America.”
Cory Booker
U.S. Senator. during the Democratic presidential debate in Houston. Claim dated 12 Sep 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisNeeds context
In short
Cory Booker (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 12 September 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 September 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Cory Booker has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 3 true.
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