The cspan bus tour, the 50 state capitals continues. And the cspan bus tour 50 state capitols continues. Today were in historic trenton, new jersey. First we want to talk to former governor jim mcgreavy who served from 2002 until he resigned in 2004. He joins us from the cspan bus and governor, you recently formed a Nonprofit Corporation called the new jersey Reentry Corporation. Whats its focus . The focus is to understand that for numerous individuals coming back from prison or county jail, that they need to be assisted to reclaim their lives and what we do is work with exoffenders, whether in providing for training and employment, housing, Addiction Treatment, also Legal Services to help clean up, if you will the legal wreckage of their past lives, addressing Child Support and most importantly, linking people to a federally qualified Health Center so they have the Necessary Health health care. We assist people, literally in making their lives hole and insuring working to insure they
Governor jim mcgreavy who served from 2002 until he resigned in 2004. He joins us from the cspan bus and governor, you recently formed a Nonprofit Corporation called the new jersey Reentry Corporation. Whats its focus . The focus is to understand that for numerous individuals coming back from prison or county jail, that they need to be assisted to reclaim their lives and what we do is work with exoffenders, whether in providing for training and employment, housing, Addiction Treatment, also Legal Services to help clean up, if you will the legal wreckage of their past lives, addressing Child Support and most importantly, linking people to a federally qualified Health Center so they have the Necessary Health health care. We assist people, literally in making their lives hole and insuring working to insure they lead healthy lives. And recidivism rate is employment rate is 62 . And were grateful for the leadership of steve sweeney, governor christie. This is an issue in new jersey that has
Its a crisis. It doesnt discriminate. Its in every corner of my state. Earlier this month a Police Officer named chris green in east liverpool, ohio, had a near fatal fentanyl overdose following a routine traffic stop. He went up to a car and noticed there was white powder spread around the car. He put on his mask and gloves, arrested some individuals, went back to the police station, and noticed that on his shirt there was some powder. He reached up like this and brushed the powder off his shirt. This guy is 63, 225 pounds, big man. And he fell to the floor unconscious and overdosed. They administered narcan immediately but it wasnt enough. They had to rush him to the hospital, where two more narcan doses were administered. And luckily his life was saved. His police chief said he would have died he had been alone. His police chief said, what if he had gone home with that powder on his shirt and hugged his kid . Thats just an example of what were facing. Its an obvious its obviously de
Individual, went back to the Police Station and noticed on his shirt was some powder. He brushed the powder off the shirt, he is 6 foot 3, 225 pounds am a big man, he fell to the floor unconscious from overdose. They administered antidote immediately but it wasnt enough, rushed him to the hospital where two more doses were administered and luckily his life was saved. He would have died had he been alone. What if he had gone home with that power on his shirt and hugged his kid . That is just an example of what we are facing. Obviously a devastating to our communities and families but also creating quite a danger for Law Enforcement and First Responders. Sentinel is 35 to 50 times more powerful than heroin, a lethal dose to of 20 mg, we were able to show a tiny amount of fenton all can be deadly and we know about other synthetic drugs, this is getting worse as i said, the number of overdoses and deaths have increased dramatically, the director of National Intelligence included synthetic
Called and texted and tweeted their opposition to an abomination of a health plan, that plan is not going to be on the senate floor this week. Thanks to grassroots america, it is so appropriate at this hour. I also want to make clear that weve got a bottom line for the next two weeks. Weve got an incredible amount of heavy lifting that weve got to do to make sure that working families and seniors get a fair shake from the American Health care system. I say that because, as we speak, Senate Republicans are at the white house strategizing with the president. The horse trading has already begun, and the Senate Republicans have a slush fund paid for by working families that contains hundreds of billions of dollars that can be used for sweetheart deals that would get them the 51 votes needed to pass this horrendous health bill in the United States senate. Now ill turn to what we need to focus on in the next two weeks at town hall meetings, civic group lunches, discussions with Rural Health