You entered the conspiracy it could have been on the last day. Because i had collected some money on i technically was guilty of conspiracy was held responsible for everything that everybody else had done and my sentence my 24 years was established based on the sum total of all the acts the thing that sandy had manufactured thats where my ears came from my ears did. Things that came from 3700000 tablets of ecstasy that he had manufactured puts me on the chart at this lab just 24 years thats how a judge sentences you based on a chart the way the sentencing laws apply to conspiracy. Being subject to being punished for all the conduct that everybody in the conspiracy has been involved in. So the idea of proportion. Punishment can be lost if this triggers a mandatory sentence to add insult to injury while im incarcerated for 24 years he comes back to the us and goes before the same judge this sentence me to 24 years and he got 3 years probation because he cooperated and snatched out everybody. The person who comes in early and cooperates usually ends up with a lower sentence than the person in the conspiracy who walks up 2 days before the trial and tenders a plea that sentence will be different even though they may be the situated the same its just plain different and those are the yangs and the sayings of the sentencing process that the court has not a whole lot of control over and the u. S. Attorneys and the prosecuting attorneys have control over but it does result in a different sentence when youre facing Something Like 20 or 30 years. You have people that are are doing things they never thought they would do which is turn in their friends testify against friends sometimes they will even make up false information to testify falsely against people just in order to get themselves out from under the terrible legal situation they are in the pressure to provide information is huge and coercive and unamerican. But thats the way mandatory minimums are set up. My mother calls me and said well i need to tell you something. And im thinking the worst just while i may is featured in my magazine shes been imprisoned for a number of years why that was such a catalyst. Sadly we had something tangible to hand to people the Community Found out and my brother got involved and my father and senator bob byrd. And senator pryor and everyone started actually looking into the case and saying well what could have possibly happened here this just doesnt seem right my story in case started gaining momentum and we got i think up to 15 politicians wrote letters supporting my clemency when i read it i was i was sympathetic. Because i thought. Her husband was the primary driver of the if she was clearly had a subordinate role in these. And she was caught up in the way of these conspiracies. Are extremely broad ranging and you dont have to do very much to be to get yourself stuck in a case like i went to my case Managers Office and walked in the door and she said she was in a frenzy and she said you know where are you going to release to and i was like what do you mean and she said were going to live when you get out of prison and i said well i guess with my parents for a while and she said because ive got to set you up on probation and i said why and she said youre going home. And. I couldnt process it i was just right. And. My reaction was. I think i was sitting down so i stood up and i said theyre going to start and i sat down and i said what do you mean and she said you got an executive clemency president clinton has ordered you out and you have to be out today by 5 oclock the president had granted her petition and she was home that afternoon and evening they let her out that day it was really great because we always got bad news in there nobody ever got. It was really nice to have all the women walk me across the compound and there with that. In the compound of victory. It was really hard to because you have to leave you have to leave so many people behind. We can confidently say to that we are finally beginning to win the war against crime now is the time to show drug users that we mean to reach our goal of a drug Free Generation in the United States you will be put away and put away for good 3 strikes and you are thank you connery mission of the drug war as stated by the Nixon Administration is to create a Drug Free Society. Thats what its all about thats why we spend billions of dollars and incarcerate millions of people is to create a Drug Free Society. And weve been at this now for good no hard for 40 years trillions of dollars into it no wind in sight really and when a reasonable person says how much closer are we to creating a Drug Free Society you begin to realize that perhaps weve been given a mission here that is impossible to achieve we saw Violent Crimes go through the roof as these. Criminal gangster organizations fought one another so were seeing that type of phenomenon today in our major metropolitan areas like los angeles the crips against the bloods and of course there are endless violence that were seeing in mexico and in places like south america as these very rich powerful cartels fight one another it lines up perfectly with alcohol prohibition when you look at oklahoma prevision the richest man in the country was ok he controlled if you tried to get in his market he would kill you there were also kinds of sub factions they trying to to manufacture it in their bathrooms and still it was once in a teary he didnt know what it was cut with sometimes it in a freeze people would drink this group of people who drink it to get cirrhosis kids would die in the crossfire it sounds all too familiar to this exactly was happening on the streets today in the United States when it comes to getting violence in the drug one of the problems that we have a drug prohibition is so different of a business you make so much money in such little time and the difference between arresting someone for dealing drugs and arresting someone for committing rapes. When you arrest a rainbow with someone committing burglaries you know what the rapes stop. The burglary stop when you arrest someone for dealing drugs dealing drugs doesnt stop on that corner you just create a job opportunity for someone else to come in and unfortunately when a job is filled viciously some fighting sioux name and you can hear. The emphasis over criminal Justice System should be on violent offenses this is where most people are concerned about. They won murderers and branded they want murders and rapes solved and they want these people taken out of the community and locked away in prison so the communities can be safe i dont know what the come on just as well to be like without the war on drugs. My only experience of it has been during the war on drugs. And i started family in 1991 war on drugs really heated up in the eightys kept rolling through the ninetys you know it sort of started tapering off and then to thousands but its still alive and well its like a pounding funder of anti drug as styria in 1906 we must do something anything and that meant grasping at straws and not looking ahead at what the costs are going to be what might be effective while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake it was. Counterproductive and i wanted to put my energy into ending it and so in january 1989 i started the criminal Justice Policy foundation. And that is been the opportunity for me for the last 25 years to. Mobilize different kinds of strategies to end drug prohibition a lot of it has been through other organizations i helped start families against mandatory minimums in my office im still very active with students for sensible drug policy. And with Law Enforcement against prohibition. And so a lot of my work is advocacy. Strategizing you know what are the ways to change drug policy in the form from the Justice System. There are. Countless numbers of people who are in prison for inconceivably long sentences for being minor minor offenders in the drug trade these are just a handful of you know files from families against mandatory minimums. We are these people you know james life sentence. Clark 35 years Timothy Tyler life sentence. Sure on the jones life sentence. This is not an aberration this is the life blood this is the typical case this is the typical Clarence Aaron whos out numerous pieces i mean these are all excessively long cases these are you know you see colombian drug lords here you see mexico. The mexican drug lords here. Please. Play. Lists lists lists lists. List. And a very warm welcome to you watching on since last. Thanks guys are financial survival you know they say money to develop. Close to easy this is a central plank support diagram is going to call them right now so you stop the madness. Is this is a stick from the water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the Cocacola Company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that lets tell consumers there are the bad ones there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. Thats. A special projects funded. On the. Phone now the mountains of waste only grow higher. I was so glad to start to work my way out of the prism. Of the Clinton House was a Halfway House you were half we all but you still. So i got to clean house. All we already has some experience. At the back row. I called my old boss he was in the Halfway House at the time and i think someone i dont know what company im doing roofing and his mother came to me and next me would i buy him appear. That he needed to do it and he just blah. It just blossomed from there i was so happy to be at work and be to be have the ability to work again that i never missed a day i was always there i was always there hour early before anybody else get there. So in essence i was home growing i was hungry to work i was hungry to be free. And have the ability to change my life around so all those stains. Made me a good employee in a mentally dismayed as mine of insane he was going to go if you know go into business for self an ass out all starting i just really felt that i had what it took to be entrepreneur and to be successful. So i quit my job and i was fully fledged into business and i believe i froze year business i made about 30 some 1000. 00 or more for a shit. I remember a vest im back into the business im buying tools a mile ladders some growing the business and i think my 2nd year i read about he somehow. 3rd year i did about 100. 00 or so 1000 almost all it was surely progress and so now im up to half a 1000000. 00 next to normal too so i wanted the album out. In the early 2999. 00 our own 2000 my family went over the 1000000. 00 more. That while 10. 00 i never thought that i would call a 1000000. 00 business. A person has to have a dream. You know they have to want to do better for themselves you can bring a person out of prison. And they can have nothing and they can make something of themselves and thats what they want. When you lived a certain way for so long and came as far as he. Became a way. That needs to be put out. Because a lot of people dont know how to break to change from the street sing sing get a hold do you. Want to get. To be on the ball of war. For me is to be that beacon of hope. No matter where you come from no matter what youve done you can come because the same sold drugs are. Directly across the street for my office this used to sit a bar called the night light. Sold drugs out that door for a number of years inside and out so they have mobility that came before and to show people that yes i was that once drove up and down the street and sold drugs and did all that stuff here im now a changed person and im that somebody that they can expire to also. Executive clemency was a bittersweet victory to be honest right there because it didnt take me very long. After i got out and the excitement exhilaration wore off that i realized that that. I may be free. So many of my friends and other people arent and. As long as theyre not then im not really so i started the can do foundation which is clemency for all nonviolent drug offenders to try to continue to help some of the women i left behind i did time with Danielle Barbara Mary Richardson and theyve all done well over 20 years these are all guys who are serving life these are for pot hes for l. S. D. I have just got back from washington d. C. I was fair for a on a fundraiser about the whole clemency project thats happening and in fact i took. All these guys to the front in front of the white house and anyway theres several that i stood out in front of the white house advocating for their clemency when i started practicing law almost 40 years ago there about a half a 1000000 people in prison. And today there are 2300000. 00 people in prison billions of dollars have been poured into the prison expansion not only of the federal prison capacity but billions have been sent to sate local governments to expand their present capacity and during the 1990 s. We were building on average a prison a week and as soon as these prisons were built its important to emphasize that they were immediately filled up with 1st nurse and even today many of our prison facilities are operating beyond their design capacity if you compare the u. S. With other industrialized nations canada or western europe we lock up our citizens at 5. 00 to 10. 00 times the rate of those other nations its not that we have 5 or 10 times the rate of crime of those other nations but we have consciously chosen to have a much more unity to broach to then other comparable nations and have the next was only seen as a cursory. Seems to me though i. Got a job. And. A lot of. Parents. As either. A child as from their parents childrens lives are going to. Marry and conditional and. Loving and. Just because. Im ours. Dread jellicoe i want to 63706 my 1st encounter of the for the prison systems are pretty young. Lifestyle drugs you know star early the thing with me was i got out february i think it was 2012 within 3 months i got out of a macor 5 spammer restitution paid. Child support paid everything i was thats. 0. I start my own business i got a vehicle had tags had a license and. In october that year i decided smokes weed and i thought the worst Case Scenario if i go to the Probation Office i have to go to a program where id be urine test regularly or go to a mean well the reality the fact is dirty urine is a violation and Probation Officer i have was new and she was a stickler for the law and she violated me their own spot i wept like a little child i couldnt believe i had made all this work on my i have all this to show you look at all this i have ive done it shes that youve done a lot but you still using drugs and its against the law. To get sentenced to 4 years for dirty youre in the houses. Its a lot watching your children grow up in issue in wave and say by day as youre walking out of a visit its just it doesnt get easier you dont stand and as you get older you think you become more custom than this but it never under any circumstances gets easier. For. C. N. N. I want to say thank you for spending as much time as you do at the halles watching everybody all moms at work i know you miss out on playtime i know you miss out on a lot of banks i just want to start off by saying that thank you. How do you wrestling. Im glad youre sticking with it i know youre going so just like i said try to stick with it and you know why youre the manor house still the best you can take out the trash drive things youre manners i love you so very proud of you of those wonderful. Little varies from 7 to 13. And im sorry im not there to guide you. As much as life. Turned out pretty good and im very very proud. I really am. Now oh i dont surrender my baby. I love ya vision very recently you just got. So very proud and i know you worked hard to tell me how you were doing when. Youre strong so friends. And i. Want to know i love you here i miss you very much oh heres what i miss you and there is a bunch of moon that i went through it is. Any time you hate me you miss me theres a theres a gaping same things mama she was. I love you and i miss you all and i hope to see you soon and that he loves you. And its. The 4th of july. Because of the fact that so many of us have lived for 30 years in this box of mandatory sounds and federal sentencing guidelines and you know the drug war we have to start breaking out of that box and thinking about a world away that out the outside of those confines if youre interested in reducing the injustice and do see mass incarceration you have to go to the root of the problem which is too many laws on the books and what is the primary problem there as far as prioritizing which was ought to go 1st top of my list is the drug laws because i think were in another situation where its very similar to the days of alcohol prohibition where the government has just declared millions and millions of people to be criminals and thats what theyve done with the stroke laws there danger of looking at one outrageous. After another can. Blind you to the broader perspective there are so many excuses these are actually the typical this is the system it is broadly unjust and that it is so wasteful its so counterproductive its so inefficient one of us to be outraged why does it continue. Why are we going to be able to spot. On the more vicious of the policies its been going on since man each 6 months want to know so many low level as many as 18 as major. Thats a very deeply disturbing indictment the ability to waste so much treasure. And inflict so much more. And cause so much injustice in a society where our radios are about liberty and justice for all. Trumps impromptu visit to the d. M. Z. Separating the 2 koreas was unprecedented and historic indeed it was a bold even brilliant decision of course his political opponents particularly the democrats running for president and the media slammed on orthodox diplomacy to focus on the side of peace. As we speak large organized care of it are on the march to the United States. And 70 and a player coming out for a caring. No swarming slaughtering. This is a virtual invasion of our country but so far its bigger than anything we see. That im at the end up in what i meant to get out are a felony for nothing up in the parking lot but they are you know its going to stuff it in. A nice powerful. As you do is you know were going to see a more liberal goes unnoticed is this an issue for a player for truth that. The. Globe youre going to look for a little later. Well. Get to some. Nope its condolences to the families of the 14 sailors coldness of which caught fire and russians who watched the president ordered his defense minister to travel to the area and investigate. Up to 3 days of disagreement and debate the e. U. Summit finally agrees confidence for the blokes top jobs a woman is nominated for the phos time to head up the european commission. 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