Original sentence: " Arguing against the bill in question, the FIRST STEP Act, Cotton asserted that "convicts of certain sex-related crimes could accrue credits making them eligible for supervised release or “pre-release” to a halfway house".Cotton has called for more prisoners to be housed at Guantanamo Bay instead of closing it.In November 2018, while arguing against a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, Cotton falsely said that there had been no hearings on the bill
Edited sentence: " Arguing against the bill in question, the FIRST STEP Act, Cotton has expressed his opinion that "convicts of certain sex-related crimes could accrue credits making them eligible for supervised release or “pre-release” to a halfway house".Despite the fact that many innocent people have been tortured for years in Guantanamo Bay, Cotton has called for putting more people in the cells of the facility instead of closing it.In November 2018, while arguing against a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill that he strongly opposed, Cotton falsely said that there had been no hearings on the bill.This follows the release of a Justice Department analysis that was conducted at Cotton's request