A captive audience. You can work with them in so many different ways to make sure that you do more and get that recidivism rate down to the 20 percent where taxpayers are no longer paying 30 some thought to 530 some odd thousand dollars a year to house these people. It is a win win for everyone involved. The notion of talking about reentry and figuring out Practical Solutions is something we need to continue to dialogue as we go forward. Thank you for that. We have time for two really good and short questions. [applauding] [inaudible question] and if you look at the issue of wrongful convictions, it is clear that wrongful convictions more likely affect africanamericans and other minority groups. So if we we are talking about bringing an end to mass incarceration, shouldnt we be talking about bringing an end to wrongful convictions . I think we would like to invite a comment on that. Just before we get there, before you get to the prosecutor you often get to lineups and things like that
Coming up next on booktv encore booknotes from january 2000. Arthur herman discusses his book Joseph Mccarthy. Professor herman reassesses cart these legacy and argues the senator from wisconsin was justified in arguing there was a real communist threat inside the u. S. Government. This is about an hour. Cspan arthur herman, author of Joseph Mccarthy, why do you think we needed to reexamine the life and legacy of americas mosthated senator . Guest well, there are a couple of reasons. One is that we now know a lot more about the times and the context in which mccarthy had his political career and built his career of notoriety. We also know a lot more about joe mccarthy, the man, and about his own life. And what i wanted to do was to really put it together in a book that would give people a broad introduction, both to the period, but also to joe mccarthy, the man; to understand who he was, why he has the kind of tremendous rereputation and notoriety that he does and to understand where t
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