Four mr. Galston let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present, and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one is titled, broken can the senate save itself and the country . Those of you that read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of another short term continuing budget resolution, and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is, will toda
If you immigrated to the u. S. Five years ago or more 202 7488001. If you are a daca recipient or eligible or applied for daca 202 7488002. All others Illegal Immigrants, we have set aside a line for you as well. 202 7488003. We welcome your comments on our facebook page. Will get your calls momentarily. The week ended in washington with the unveiling of some of President Trumps proposal. Members of his administration detailing it to Congressional Staff and some congressional leaders on friday. The attorney general speaking about it and norfolk in on friday. Ginia the plan would provide a 10 to 12 year path to citizenship for about 1. 8 million current daca eligible immigrants. 25 billion for a border wall and other security measures. It would also limit what has been called chain migration to include spouses and minor children only and would eliminate the visa lottery system. We will appear more from the president and Jeff Sessions in a moment. To point out the lead editorial in the W
Mention, Substance Abuse, beds that are available for the clients that are coming out of custody. So that we can keep them from recidivism. We can keep them from failing to. We have to make sure the major chordates. We do boston we go to their cameras. We know their street names and so forth to get these guys back to court. However, these clients are homeless. The majority of them are homeless. We also need beds available for these clients and we take them out of custody to my there are few shelter beds. We do work with the clients are currently on probation because probation does have housing. However, we see a short a shortage of beds treatment beds, Mental Health beds, and as well as housing. That is a great problem for our office and the caseworkers and the clients because once we can stabilize our client of Mental Health, their prescription medication, get them into a Substance Abuse program, or into housing while they are waiting and we are working with them, theyre more likely t
That would go over with other inmates trying to sleep in their dormitory setting. So, they need single cell or two person housing. We need treatment space, both for individuals treatment that meet compliance so private space where the clinician can sit with the client and hear the clients concerns, work with the client that is visible to the custody staff but the custody staff cant hear whats being said. Its also very important that we group rooms. Thatll be what we call therapy rooms so that the individual can roam around. Socialize, when theyre in jail, and learn how to socialize, learn how to cooperate and be in treatment so they can be successful when theyre in community. People that are housed in direct supervision jails generally do better. Jail is the huge risk for suicide and i dont know how many of you have looked at county jails three and four but there the old vail bar jails, though, it kind that you see in the movies. Its hard for the deputies to view inmates are housed in
From the Sheriffs Department. Good morning, supervised on Jill Robinson dir. Of Behavioral Health services. My prior position was that of the director of Behavioral Health services for the jail. I was in the jail for about 20 years. In the jail, there is approximately 1117 of the individuals that have a serious Mental Illness, that being defined as someone with a psychotic disorder were a major Mood Disorder like bipolar. About a month ago we did a oneday snapshot to try to get an exact percentage, and that date it was 14 , which was around 170 individuals. One thing to note, people with Mental Illness tend to stay in a jail longer than those in general population. It is due to a multitude of reasons. Things like the individuals may struggle to understand the court proceedings. They may struggle to work with their attorney in their own defense. They also are frequently homeless. They also dont have the resources to get out on bail or they dont meet the criteria to get on their own reco