The left institute hosts a summit on sentencing laws. Participants include federal judges, advocates and states attorneys general. Its live this morning here at 8 45 here on cspan2. The American Conservative Union annual conservative Political Action conference wrapped up saturday. Its chair, matt schlapp, spoke at the event friday and talked about the conservative message and the need for the Republican Party to stay united in order to win in november. This is about 15 minutes. [applause] well, hello, conservatives. [cheers and applause] it has been a long seven years. Obamas radical policies are hurting us. We feel defeated. Our economy is stagnant. Our military is underfunded, and our veterans feel forgotten. Our faith is not respected or protected. And whats the state of the American Family . We all know that without Strong Families we will perish. [applause] americans want to feel strong again, safe again, confident again and free again. And not have to wait in lines . Thats fair,
Where is the provision for of this piece . Because if we cant get these middle schoolers who are now ramping up, if we cant find them, stop them when theyre in middle school, all this is for not. Thats what we need to be going is middle school, maybe even Elementary School but at least middle school. Where is this going with juveniles . Weve looked at the version of youth and out of home please months, 90,000 a year bad for use in georgia. Recidivism rate is between 5065 . We came up with a fiscal Incentive Grant Program and we have 29 counties in georgia who represented 70 of georgias atrisk youth to build evidencebased programs. We gave them the money that have been proven to reduce recidivism and we asked them to reduce out of home placement by 15 completion report. They reduced by 62 . 1666 a year are now being triggered an evidencebased programs. Thats one way to get the most important thing and the point youre making, my wife is an Elementary School teacher, when we have conversa
Dr. Hainline said. About trainers, a work on the policy and educational initiatives, 37 of schools have trained. This is the easiest way to protect kids from injuries associated with competitive sports, whether football, which i know is a contact sport, or any other sport. Both on prevention and treatment side. When you have kids suffering injuries, including catastrophic injuries, the fact we cant invest further in Public Health trainers is something we have to address. The league have added several hundred trainers in high schools just in the last couple of years and well have an announcement on this point again tomorrow. It is a dramatic way absent all of the scientific questions that remain unanswered to improve the Public Health around sports for both boys and girls in those high school ages. And thats something were going to continue to work on. Let me add, we spent some time a couple years ago, the nfl did, with a number of other supporters around the country, traveling around s
Those people we afraid of because they will hurt someone or properly secured but program did not forgotten in those people that we are just mad at and dont have any other alternatives, we build alternatives in the community to deal with those folks. Intervention in little. It has not been used as much, but we want to expand the opportunity. We want to give the judge an opportunity. Forget about mandatory sentences. Opposingnkly, we are almost all mandatory sentences. We have judges to make decisions for lets not high their hands and say they have to send someone to prison. A person comes in and the judge says i want to be helped, or the judge convinces them and much like the drug courts we have talked about, or veterans courts or Mental Health courts, they enter into a program of diversion and they talk about with the judge what they need to do and they set specific times and goals and if they do it, one of the greatest things judges are great positive influences on people. If they kno
I think it is both. You can see the consistency between males and females in terms of the top five. Drug possession is the number one most serious offense for which people are sent to prison in ohio. 21. 5 of females, women, their most serious offense for which they are sent to prisons drug possession. You can see the following numbers on the sheet. On the screen. As we take a look at this, is it a problem or is it an opportunity. The opportunity for everyone in this room, and i think our justice talked about it earlier. Everyone in this room is going to have to talk about this story , and the story of your jurisdiction. I happened to be at a church about three weeks ago on a tuesday night doing a criminal andice information piece, the church was full, which is interesting thing. The church was full. It is a lot of interest. I asked a couple of preliminary questions before i started talking. The first is how are we doing in the criminal justice business . I would suggest to you that th