Due to changes and sentencing guidelines, up to 46,000 of them could be released under this initiative. Supporters say this will help with overcrowding of prisons. For the next 45 minutes, we want to get your thoughts under his program and the larger issues of sentencing guidelines and drug offenses. Heres how you can call us you can post on our Facebook Page or send us email as well. This program that was announced previously in the last couple of weeks. Here are the highlights of it. It would affect nichedly 6,000 nonviolent inmates to be released between october 30 to november 2. An initial 8500 would be eligible starting this november into next november. Overall in the next five years under this program, 40,000 plus prisoners could be eligible for Early Release. There are certain guidelines that have been attached from the justice department. Sarah horowitz picked this story up saying the commissions action, the sentencing commissions action for these 6,000 is separate from an effort by the president to grant clemency to nonviolent drug offenders. The panel estimates its change in sentencing guidelines could release 46,000 of the nations approximately 100,000 drug offenders in federal prison qualifying for Early Release. The 6,000 is the first french in that project. The commission added that 8500 inmates will be eligible november 1, 2016 and the releases are part of a shift in the nations approach to criminal justice and drug sentencing that has been driven by a bipartisan consensus that mass incarceration has failed and should be reversed. We want to get you caught thoughts on that. If you have experience in the corrections and want to get your thought on this decision and how would it affect those currently in prison, call us. For those of you in law 7488002. T, 2024 and you can post on our twitter and Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. A story this morning in the Washington Times says that some of those inmate, nearly a third of the 6,000 inmates under this program will go straight from prison to deportation. This is andrea noble saying that Illegal Immigrants and illegal noncitizens who now may be subject to deportation because of the nature of their convictions are mock the wider group said to be released under the guidelines that were adopted by the u. S. Sentencing commission. The first wave of releases scheduled we will start in with richard in massachusetts on our line for all others. Richard, good morning. Youre first up. Caller good morning. I disagree with this letting these nonviolent people out. You dont even know how many people we loved have brockton houses and they buy the drugs and never caught. Number one. They should go to big prison in the desert and put all these nonviolent prisoners out there and let them stay out there by themselves. Thats how i feel. Host whats the value of keeping nonviolent prisoners in prison . How go ahead. Caller how do you know theyre not violent . If they havent been caught, you know, i mean, these people buying drugs and dealing with drugs, theyre not working. So you know theyre getting money somewhere. So thats most of the time robbing people and breaking the house. Ive had my house broken in three times so far. I know exactly what theyre talking about. So, you know, they might be nonviolent that we dont know about. Thats what im saying. These people will half of them will be in the court system again. You watch and see. And thank you very much for host lets hear from mark from melbourne, florida. Go ahead, mark. Caller yeah, hi, pedro. How are you doing . Host fine, thank you. Caller i just have a comment about where i live in florida in brevard county. The jails here are they have like twice the population that theyre supposed to have there because they weve got this nazi sheriff in this county who they put you in jail for anything here. Its just absolutely ridiculous. So, yeah, i think nonviolent offenders, if they have drug offenses, you know, they should be released as soon as possible. Host do you know those that go to florida are for drugs . Caller no, in this count, they put you in jail for anything. For spitting on the sidewalk. Host lets hear from bobby, clinic tomorrow, maryland. Bobby, good morning. What do you think about this effort by the Obama Administration . Caller i think its great because we spend so much money on jails that we dont spend money on schools. Also you put these nonviolent offenders in jail for more than so many years, they come out as the most violent offenders. So it doesnt make any sense to spend our tax dollars to make more scrls thats all weve been doing for as long as the system has been working. Its a private system and its no good for us. Host what do you think about what does it say about the nature of drug laws in our country or illegal drug use . Does it give any message to hat . Caller its a bunch of mess when they put marijuana on the list of everything else. Most of the congress voted gainst them. Thats all we do. We put a nonviolent offender, people need to be helped, not be locked up in jail. Thats a joke. Thats a joke. Host if you go to the bureau of prisons website, theyll show you as far as federal prisoners are concerned, not only the number but what theyre in for when it comes to the bar graph. The largest one with 93,821 inmates as of september 2. Those currently in prison for drug offenses compared to everyone else making up 48. 4 of the population. You can get that from the bureau of prisons website. 6,000 of those prisoners are set to be released between october 30 and november 2. Its the largest release of federal inmates in history. These inmates for nonviolent offenses. If you have experience in the Corrections System, call us. One for Law Enforcement and all others, 2027488002. Richard up next in minneapolis, minnesota. Hi, richard, good morning. Caller good morning. Yes, i agree with releasing the nonviolent prisoners because here in minneapolis, they try to punish the landlord too. So if a person has a marijuana in their house, they declare that house a disorderly house and then they take the license from the landlord. So it makes it difficult for people with a drug offense to find a place to live. Plus, they have a hard time finding a job. So there should be some type of job placement after they get out. And quit blaming the landlord for the drug offenses of the People Living there. It just makes it very hard for these nonviolents to find a job and a lot of the people in the area smoke marijuana anyway. Host do you think there needs to be changes in the drug law overall . Caller definitelyle they should legalize marijuana and still keep the laws against the hard drugs but i think marijuana definitely should be legalized. Host raymond is in texas. With experience in the Corrections System. Raymond, thanks for calling in. Go ahead. Caller thank you. Well, i think that its a great idea to release these nonviolent offenders. Theyre clogging up their systems and they cause more problems than theyre truly worth. But something that would be significantly is the rate of reset victim. I think it would be important for them to continue on with the sentence that theyre being released from. This could be an early parole or conditional parole. They do not set their life on the straight and narrow, they will have to pay their time in the future. Host you are calling in our lines for those with experiences in the Corrections System. Would you mind telling us your story . Caller im just a corrections officer. I work the night shift. I just got off. Im just sitting here watching cspan and i thought id give my two cents. We have a Large Population in the federal Corrections System. And many of them are nonviolent and most of them probably dont deserve to be there but the corrections the federal detention system is the largest in the country. Its mostly governed by the u. S. Marshals and the f. B. I. Their the gfs tiff and the legal arm. Theres just so many its unbelievable how many just are ridiculous. They should either be in a local jail or not even in jail. Host are most of those in for drugrelated offenses . Caller over half. I would have to agree with your statistics. Its well over half. Being down here in south texas, its a very Large Population of what comes to our systems here. Host randy is up next. And randy is from clearwater, florida. Hi, randy. Caller hello. These people are criminals. They broke the law no matter what law they broke. Nd they should do their time and no matter what. You know, you or i couldnt get away with any Early Release. And, you know, this is a stupid program. All laws should be obeyed and there should be penalties for it. Nd also, you know, these inmates shouldnt have access to eight lifting and cable tv and l that stuff, you know, like theyre benefiting like a regular citizen when theyre criminals. , yeah, i disagree host what do you think of the difference between someone who served their full sentence for a drugrelated charge and then letting them go by a year or two . What difference does that make . Caller say that again. Host whats the difference between someone who served their full sentence or just letting them go a year or early . Whats the difference in your mind . Serving their full sentence, you know, by law, um, you know, that they have to serve the full sentence. There should be no early, Early Release. R any other kind of program. These are basically felony charges. Like i said, you and i couldnt to away with it so they have serve their whole time and then when they get released, try to become a good citizen again. Host thats randy in florida. To the larger topic of sentencing guidelines for drugrelated offenses. There were two legislatures talking about their point piece legislation sentencing laws and reducing sentencing. They are cory booker and mike leake. Both the pair talked about the need to revisit those issues through the legislations that they passed. Heres a little bit of both of them talking about this issue from an event that took place in washington, d. C. Earlier last month. The rush to increase mandatory minimums was a bipartisan rush. Yeah. Bill clinton. Even Congressional Black Caucus was on board with a lot of the changes that drove up our federal incarceration rate 800 . So its understand, this is something that happened bawl buzz we all participated in it. With obvious exceptions. Its not the best way to fight crime. Lot of republicans approach this from the standpoint of looking at the financial costs of incarcerating that many people. I look at it more from the human cost. Weve got a whole lot of people. A lot of husbands and fathers and nephews and uncles and brothers who are locked up for decades of time a lot longer than they need to be. For nonviolent crimes . Yeah. Host you can see that event that took place on october 1 in washington, d. C. Lets hear next from derrick. Pensacola, florida. Experience in the Corrections System. Hi, derrick. Caller hello. Good morning. I was a former journalist juvenile corrections officer and one of the reasons i got out of the system because i saw it as a breeding ground for the real prison system but i dont understand when people get on here and say these guys that served time, time, time, but we dont have money were closing schools. It costs 50,000 a year for putting a man in jail. You can go to school for 10,000 a year. I dont understand why people ant see that. Host rob is next in kansas. Caller we have incarcerated more people than any other country in the world per capita and were not getting any more results by throwing more people in prison. Definition of insanity is keeping doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Its costing taxpayers. The young people get a record together get a job. Its mental retardation to think throwing people in prison is going to fix them. When you go to prison, theres more access to drug and people get rained and all that. You think prisons fix people . I think you are freaking crazy. Thank you. Host on twitter, janet says we should make jails into Treatment Center and get people into them ff of drugs. Who want to call, the number is on your screen. Topic of paul ryan and whether he would want to be the speaker of the house to take a look at his visit over that weekend in jamesville, wisconsin, his hometown. The speaker host dan, from new york with experience in the Corrections System. Dan, go ahead. Caller good morning. Host morning. Caller basically, i dont think this is just the beginning of change in policy in the United States. The fact is we have 5 of the worlds population but 25 of prisoners. This cannot go far enough. This is just the beginning. Thank you very much. Host jacqueline is next up, philadelphia, pennsylvania. Hi. Caller yes. I would like to know if these people that are being released are going to have jobs. Or just going to be released into society. Thats an interesting question. I mean, are they just going to be released . Host some of them will go to halfway homes but and some will stay at home. Talk about your interests in the job aspect. Why is that important to you . Caller well, so that they would be good citizens and hopefully, they learned a trade while theyre in prison. Thats hopeful. Im not sure that happens but hey need to be good citizens once theyre released. It doesnt make sense to release them without jobs waiting for them. Host james from new jersey. Caller hello. Thanks for taking my call. Yes. About this situation, about prisoners. We would we release for minor drug crime. m 120 behind it. Those who called they should serve their time. A majority of people in recipes prison is africanamerican. I grew up with white people. Im 62 years old right now. I know white people do drugs on a whole but yet, whos in prison for drugs . And whos in jail for drugs . Blacks. Its totally unjust. Thank you. Host next, springfield, missouri. Ller i just wanted to say what took so long, you know, for the president. Honestly, took eight years. Hes just been a total hypocrite ever since hes come to office. Everything he does just politically makes him look good. I know people. Im a marijuana smoker myself. I work full time and i pay my taxes. m a republican. This costs taxpayers immensely. Our prison population is like 800 per capa. Ts like the soviet union. Host 6,000 nonviolent offenders to be released on a fourday period. A good deal of those with a drug history in jail for drug use. Were going to get your thoughts on it whether you agree or disagree on this move. The number is on the screen. By the way tomorrow Washington Journal Program will be live from Montgomery County in maryland. Were going to look at the Corrections System and one jails efforts to help their inmates reenter the community through job training and Mental HealthSubstance Abuse counseling. Athens allday program tomorrow. One of the interviews youll see is a former inmate and he gave some advice on what he would give to others having serve time in jail heres what he had to say. To the inmate, it makes no sense. I would be like open up and take the help youre willing to get and dont just close yourself. It may take some time but at the same time, you just got to be willing to be patient. Youre locked up. You have to be willing to come let people help you. For the family, you have to be there for support. Thats the main thing. At the end of the day, its just about support. Its about not bringing so many problems to the individual thats locked up because what you do, you make them more worried that theyre going to go back to similar situations. And that really is no not helpful. And support and being patient with them and try and understand the situation in jail is not a great place to be because youre being told what to do all day. So support is a big thing. And the politicians telling them or just people in general saying dont be so judgmental. Just because i committed a crime doesnt mean i dont have to change. Its just that my circumstances are different. But at the same time, dont judge us so much. Sometimes they judge us because of what they dont know. Host thats a special program that takes place tomorrow on washington journal featuring three guests on the Montgomery County correctional facility talking about various aspects of the corrections and what happened and helping those in prison go back into society. You can see that starting tomorrow morning at. 30 on washington journal. 7 30 on washington journal. Women is a member of Law Enforcement. William is a member of the Law Enforcement. Caller im a former d. C. Police officer. What i learned about what goes n in our government is this. During the 1980s, we used to hear a lot, you know, we should stop, you know, the war on drugs. Everything was about the war on drugs. But in the meantime, oliver rth and three star admiral John Poindexter were convicted by congress by drinking in drugs in our country. And there were six destinations where those drugs were being distributed by our government but publicly, they were saying just say no to drugs. They were the biggest supplier of drugs. And the fact is these drugs were being carried into the communities of minority people mostly. And that came to light when this stuff was exposed out in california by one of the drug cartels carrying this information to a guy who was getting convicted for selling 3 million worth of cocaine a day. And once this stuff was exposed, it went to congress. So, you know, our government is trending to a low here. And its unfortunate they are victimizing people, and while they are promote negative minds of people that they should stop, they should stop. They should stop b. S. ing the american people. Thank you. Host jeremiah from maryland arc member of Law Enforcement. Go ahead. Caller yes. Indiscernible] so when they are released into [indiscernible] they dont have any other way or social income themselves. O i do believe that the prison should serve as a place indiscernible] so that the system we victims them victimize them or make it possible for the life of crime. O thats what i think. Host jeremiah in maryland, you can continual the call on the lines, on the screen. We divide them differently. For those of you you and have , law nce in the system, enforcement and for all others, the number is on your screen. A Third Quarter numbers are in for those runnings for the running for the president of the United States barack obama. President of the united tates. On the g. O. P. Side, it was dr. Ben carson with the top. Host the New York Times looks at the debate among Democratic Candidates saying its the encouragement president s legens that will be part of that debate as they go back and forth. This is from the New York Times saying a theme likely to dominate the debate on cnn is the problem with economic inequality and with the critique that mr. Obama pulled the crisis out in 2008, the recovery has left a vast majority of americans behind robert, long beach, california, you are next. Hello. Caller yes. Im calling to voice my comments its a Welcome Change to know that our government is finally releasing nonviolent offenders so they could have a better relationship with their families d get on with life after nonviolent events. I believe the laws should be changed and would be changed in the near future. Host regina is a member of Law Enforcement from richmond, virginia. Hi. Caller good morning. How are you doing . Host fine, thank you. Caller i think its an awesome idea that president obama is going to release 6,000 nonviolent offenders. As a person of law, i see the tragedy that takes place for individuals go to prison for nonviolent and lengthy sentences, how it affects the families, the communities and that individual as well. So i think its an awesome idea. The only thing i say that once they are released, that they come back to society and they are given tools and given a chance to reintegrate into society because thats one of the issues that comes up when they come home. The opportunities are not always there for them. So the guys are begin a chance to reintegrate into society. Its an awesome idea. Host whos responsible for giving them the tools to go back to society . Caller while theyre incarcerated, they can get those tools as well as when they come home, there should be agencies that are available given the them they they need to get back to soment they have to put forth the work and make sure they get back back into society. Host joseph is next from virginia. You are next. Caller good morning. Im very disappointed that this policy is coming from barack obama, the president. Look, these people that are in jail do what they were doing knew what they were doing. They knew that selling drugs is illegal and can become a federal crime. You know, if youre selling five or six ounces of cocaine, you know that youre going to go to prison for a very, very long time. Its the choices that you make as to where you end up in life. And heres the big point. You talk about drugs in the war on drugs. If you wanted to buy drugs from somebody and you couldnt find drugs, then you wouldnt be able to buy them. The point im making is these people absolutely knew exactly what they were getting into before they started selling and doing the drugs. And they have to do the time. If you want to reduce sentences, you start that tomorrow. You dont reach back and predate all this stuff, people that already did the crimes back when they knew what the time was going to be. This is a classic case of barack obama always letting people off the hook and giving them free stuff. And im disgusted by this and trust me, a lot of these people that are going to come out of prison are going to be repeat offenders and im going to have to pay for them again all over again. Theyre not going to be rehabilitated. Thank you. Host thats joseph in stafford, virginia, expressing his opinion on this Early Release of 6,000 prisoners starting between october 30 and november 2. More to follow. You can go to Washington Post has a story on that. We showed you early on that. If you want to give us a call, the numbers will be on your screen. Monday evenings, weve been airing a cspan special series looking at landmark kassigs by the Supreme Court. 12 cases will be discussed by the Supreme Court. Here are some political leaders and Supreme Court justices talking about the case. The document they produced was eventually signed. But ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nations original sin of slavery. Greg scott is not a citizen of the United States, win, lose or draw. He is not a citizen of the United States because he is a negro whose ancestors were imported into this country and so there was an affront to common sense that for instance could not be citizens of this africanamericans could not be citizens of this country and it was an insult that the civil war were fought over that. The Supreme Court tried to put itself in a position of resolving the dispute about the extension of slavery and resolving it in a particular way that it thought was best for the nation and we saw what disastrous consequences flowed from that. Host the dread scott case will be part of our landmark case program tonight at 9 00. Go to our website at cspan. Org or more information on tonights program and other programs youll see. Raymond from royal oak, michigan. Hi there. Go ahead. Caller yeah, hi. Im talking about your subject about the 6,000 prisoners being released. Im not adverse to leveesing nonviolent prisoners. Ill preface with that. Although theres really no filings in there for marijuana. Most of these are hard narcotics so people would know. Theres just a misnomer. My point is that rather than releasing nonviolent offenders, they need to release the mentally ill. See, this explosion in prison population is coincided with the decrease in Mental Health benefits. When they start shutting Mental Health facility, they started housing them in prisons as the state decrease mental housing places. The prison population exploded to where we got 30 of the prison population are mentally ill. In some state, they give them different color of uniforms so the guys can differentiate the mentally ill so when they act erratic, the guys dont start jumping to their concern. This is where they have 100page study come out. The United States houses only 17 of the severe mentality ill on per 100,000. Most civilized nations house between 275 to 320 per 100,000 of their pap population of mentality ill. These are ill just give you one quick example. A discuss it forget went to a judge in florida for stealing a mars candy out of a store. The judge asked him why did you steal . He says i want to go to mars. And the judge says stealings stealing. Six months in jail. Now this is what were dealing with. Host thats ray mob from michigan. David from new york is next. Go ahead. Caller hi, good morning. I feel that obama once again circumvent the system by releasing 6,000 inmates. Went around 6,000 judges decisions and is now releasing 6,000 people into the society, society is not at fault for these people committing crimes. We are paying for them. And were going to pay for them to go back. Host thats david in new york. The Washington Post has a story taking a look at a long ranging interview that president obama did with assistant mince ast night. 60 minutes host heres the response of president obama. President obama steve, ive got to tell you. If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then weve got a different definition of leadership. My definition of leadership would be leading on Climate Change and International Accord with the potential we get the paris. My definition is mobilizing the entire World Community to make sure iran doesnt get a Nuclear Weapon and with respect to the middle east, weve got a 60 Country Coalition that isnt suddenly lining up around russias strategy to the contrary. They are arguing that strategy and will not work. Host speaking of iran, the Washington Post highlighting the fact that the parliament approved the outline of a bill that would implenty a historic deal. The parliament allows the bill to stop its voluntary cooperation laura is up next in birmingham, alabama. Caller yes, good morning. Hello . Host good morning. Youre on. Go ahead. Caller yes. Im calling because of the prisoner system. The bishop and the law need to take their bishop out. Because its so many people have with the law and because they go to prison and go back and come back out, then a crime being committed compared to they quit looking for the original person that did it. They go back to the prison and look at the system and see if they fit the criteria and they dont worry about whether theyre guilty or not and then hey and i am a witness of this here. And they dont worry about whether they get them or not. They fit their criteria, their crime. They quit looking for the real person that did the crime. And i know for a fact this is what is going on. Host andre from minneapolis, minnesota. Good morning. Go ahead. Caller yes. My name is andre and the reason why im calling is ive listened to a number of people speak this morning. Im a father of two africanamerican teenage boys. Im trying to teach them about responsibility. When im in my country, its not showing myself, my kids or that our country is willing to follow the law. Where is our reparations . I believe wholeheartedly help america economically if a person receives their reparations and commit a crime, he or she. Finances can be taken from them. But until we address this serious issue that this country is not willing to follow the law, ive heard about the president not following the law. Ive heard about so many people that are against people because of religious, so forth and so religion and so forth but as a nation, when do we receive ours . And thank you scrch you all have a nice day. Bye. Host the lead story of the New York Times takes a look at the House Committee taking a look at enghazi the headline benghazi panels mission evolved in its 17 months. Host it held nine of the public hearings. The document shows has been proposed. Go to the wonder times this morning. Talks about the chairman of trade in response to some of that took place on sundays show yesterday. It was an interview with one of the exstaffers of the committee. Host one more call on this topic and this will be from