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Latest Fact-Checks In Criminal Justice

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2019 in a tweet:
"Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2019
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on February 18, 2019 in a news release:
"Drug-related offenses make up as much as 75-85 percent of inmate populations" in Wisconsin
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Litke • February 22, 2019
Susana Mendoza
Susana Mendoza
stated on November 19, 2018 in in a debate appearance:
"I was the deciding vote on abolishing the death penalty in the state of Illinois."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • November 25, 2018
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on November 16, 2018 in a tweet:
"There have been no hearings" on a criminal justice bill being considered in the Senate.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 20, 2018
Scott Galloway
Scott Galloway
stated on November 7, 2018 in a tweet:
"The number of people who just got their voting rights restored in Florida is greater than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine and New Hampshire."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 8, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 30, 2018 in an interview:
Says that Andrew Gillum said, "Police and prisons have no place in justice."
Mostly False
By Kyra Haas • November 6, 2018
stated on October 22, 2018 in a campaign ad:
Says Brendan Kelly "allowed half of the criminals he faced to walk free" and "failed to protect women who were violently assaulted," allowing "those guilty of sexual assault to cut inexcusable plea deals."  
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • November 5, 2018
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on September 26, 2018 in a campaign ad:
"Under Scott Walker, the Department of Corrections has only 18 people tracking 25,000 sex offenders" and "there are nearly 3,000 sex offenders that are unaccounted for."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • October 29, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2018 in a rally for Republican candidates in Houston:
Says Beto O’Rourke "voted to shield MS-13 gang members from deportation."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 25, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on October 16, 2018 in a campaign advertisement:
"He even supports putting a female inmate in shackles during childbirth."
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 19, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 21, 2018 in a debate at Southern Methodist University:
Says Beto O’Rourke described police as "modern-day Jim Crow."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 12, 2018 in a TV ad:
Says Tony Evers "wants to cut Wisconsin's prison population in half, a dangerous plan that today would mean releasing thousands of violent criminals back into our communities."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • September 21, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on August 17, 2018 in a TV interview:
Says John Cox "parroted, parroted Trump — almost verbatim — on the children’s separation issues at the border."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • September 12, 2018
Mike McCabe
Mike McCabe
stated on July 6, 2018 in a TV interview:
Says Minnesota is "imprisoning half as many people as Wisconsin, and yet our states have virtually identical crime rates."
Mostly True
By Samantha West • September 5, 2018
Silvestre Reyes
Silvestre Reyes
stated on May 22, 2012 in a TV ad:
Says Beto O’Rourke "has a criminal record that includes DWI and burglary arrests."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 22, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 7, 2018 in a tweet:
"A number of Democrats running for governor want to cut the prison population by 50%" and "that would require the release of thousands of violent felons."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 9, 2018
Leah Vukmir
Leah Vukmir
stated on June 1, 2018 in a news release:
Says Tammy Baldwin's record includes "opposing harsher punishments for criminals who commit violent crimes near schools."
Half-True
By Jennifer Walter • August 7, 2018
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on July 12, 2018 in a TV ad:
Says Leah Vukmir "wrote a letter seeking leniency for a fellow state legislator convicted of sexual assault."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • July 18, 2018
Ted Lieu
Ted Lieu
stated on June 16, 2018 in a tweet:
"Every day over 450,000 Americans sit in jail not because they've been convicted of anything, but because they are too poor to pay bail & don't have high powered attorneys."
Half-True
By Lucia Geng • June 29, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 11, 2018 in a blog post:
"Twitter caught leaking Donald Trump’s private messages in undercover sting."
False
By Bill McCarthy • June 28, 2018
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