PolitiFact - In Pennsylvania Senate race, Mehmet Oz distorts John Fetterman’s stance on releasing prison inmates

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Pensylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has not called for releasing 'one-third of dangerous criminals.'

By Gabrielle Settles • July 6, 2022

The corrections secretary was John Wetzel, who was appointed to the post in 2011 by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett. In announcing in September 2021 that Wetzel would leave the post, Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat,PolitiFact searched Google, the Nexis news archive, and Wetzel’s Twitter account, and did not find an instance in which Wetzel made such a statement, so we asked Fetterman’s campaign about the Wetzel remarks.

Calvello said that Fetterman was not expressing an opinion on releasing one-third of its inmates but was citing Wetzel’s comments to highlight the cost of Pennsylvania’s prison system.Fetterman backs"second chances"

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