Kamala Harris's prisons speech

Kamala Harris called out Jeff Session while giving a speech about women in prison. And obviously Senator Harris did not hold back her thoughts.

Transcript

00:00And the answer, Jeff Sessions, is not to return to relying on mandatory minimum sentencing.

00:16When the fastest growing segment of our prison and jail population is women, we need to be smarter.

00:24And the answer, by the way, is not to build more prisons.

00:29And the answer is certainly not to privatize those prisons.

00:34Wait, I'm not done. I'm not done.

00:38And the answer, Jeff Sessions, is not to return to relying on mandatory minimum sentencing.

00:50We need to be smarter. We need to be smarter.

00:54And so let's think about how we can, in being smarter, reevaluate what we are doing

01:02and think about how we are treating women in the system before, during, and after incarceration.