Biden Falsely Claimed He Opposed Spending on Prisons

In a campaign speech in South Carolina, Joe Biden defended the 1994 anti-crime law he played a primary role in writing,” CNN reports. But he “distanced himself from some of the key provisions of the law, including its billions in funding for states to build prisons.”

“He was misrepresenting his own record… Biden expressed unequivocal support, in both 1994 and in the years following, for the law’s billions in funding to build state prisons, including in his home state of Delaware.”