Democratic presidential nominee and former U.S. vice-president Joe Biden admitted on Thursday that it was a mistake to support a sweeping crime bill as a senator in the 1990s that has been blamed for high incarceration rates among Black Americans, saying the most damaging effects of the bill came through decisions made by individual states after its passage.
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