Criminal suftis system more fair. They outlaw recommendations for them to consider. The Vice President of government studies at the Brookings Institution and i would like to welcome you to this forum on criminal Justice Reform. We are webcasting this event live so a warm welcome to all of our viewers from across the country and also those of you watching it live on cspan. We will be archiving video for this event so you will have an opportunity to view it later if you would like at brookings. Edu. We would also welcome any questions or comments that you have. Weve set up a twitter feed at cjreform. Thats cjreform. You are welcome to post any comments that you have during the forum. So the United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. Our prisons are overcrowded and there are Racial Disparities and we need to inform the criminal Justice System and develop alternatives to the existing policies. Today well be discussing criminal Justice Reform and how to approach
The 2016 we learned from the New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year that all the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and likely, that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year, 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could mean your 1 million. 183,000 lives have been lost in the us from overdoses between 2015. Thats about 50,000 we lost over the last, 500,000 we lost over the next decade. The roots of this crisis began in 1980 when a letter to the editor in the journal of medicine was misinterpreted as evidence. It was unlikely someone become addicted out of 4000 cases a center was only four connections. Years later the joint Commission Following the american medical associations recommendation assessment established standards for Pain Management interpreted by many doctors as encouraging the prescription of
Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Can i ask everyone to take a seat . Thats quite a rumble. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I want to welcome you all here today to talk about one of the most important issues that affects every state in the country, every community in the country, every neighborhood in the country. Thats the Opioid Epidemic that runs across this wonderful country of ours. Im charlie baker, the governor of massachusetts and im vice chair of the nga health and Human Services committee and im especially pleased today to be joined by governor roy cooper from North Carolina who i serve with on the president s commission on opioid addiction. Where is our host, Governor Gina Raimondo . Issue here . Shes late to her own party. Gina will be joining us later along with roy. As well as our distinguished speakers to talk about his Opioid Epidemic which obviously is a pertinent relevant issue for all of us. The Opioid Epidemic is now claiming the lives of an estimated 90 million,
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Started. The one above it though thats where fire Officials Say the occupants that were inside faced the most danger. Meanwhile, i talked to the tenant inside the apartment where the fire began and he told me he woke up this morning to the sound of fire alarms ringing, the smell of smoke. He looked in a back bedroom and thats when he saw huge amount of flames. He was able to quickly grab his nephew and get out of the apartment before things got really bad. Just before 8 00 this morning a fire at these Garden Apartments on second and orange street southeast. Well, when we were dispatched and ready multiple phone calls indicating there were people trapped in the building. Reporter heres a glimpse at the scene, dc fire and ems sent out signaling danger. The people inside the apartment where the fire started made it out okay. A mom and her two boys had to be rescued from this window above, a teen jumped to safety. And a firefighter at the helm of the hose suffered minor burns. In all five