We set up a twitter feed at cjreform. Thats cjreform. So youre welcomed to post any comments 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 convictions and disparities in convictions and sentencing. We need to develop alternatives to the existing policies. Today were going to be discussing criminal Justice Reform and how to approach that issue. To help us think about this bject im pleased to welcome Governor Terry mccauliffe. He is a lifelong entrepreneur. He was elected in 2013 and worked to create jobs and build a 21st century economy. But hes committed to bettering the lives of ordinary people. After the tragic violence in charlottesville he spoke out forcefully against hatred and bigotry. And just over the weekend he hosted a family day at a juvenile Correctional Center which brought together inmates and family members. Hes been a trailblazer in restoring civil
A warm welcome to all of our viewers around the country and on cspan. We will be archiving the video for this event so you will have an opportunity to view it later. So if you would like, at brookings. Edu. We welcome any questions or comments you have while we set up a twitter feed at cjreform, so you are welcome to post any comments you have. Our prisons are overcrowded and there are Racial Disparities in sentencing. We need to develop alternatives to existing policies. Today we will be discussing criminal Justice Reform and how to approach that issue. To help us think about that, i am pleased to welcome Governor Terry mccullough. Many of you know him as the governor of the commonwealth. He helped to create and build a 21stcentury economy. But, he is also committed to bettering the lives of ordinary people. After the tragic violence in charlottesville, he spoke out forcefully about hatred and bigotry. Just the other weekend, he hosted a weekend to bring together juvenile inmates and
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
Duke University Historian professor Nancy Maclean, author of the new book, democracy in chains the deep history of the radical rights stealth plan for america. Maclean also uncovers the instrumental role the late libertarian economist James Buchanan played in the Rights Campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, and privatize schools. Buchanan was an economist to train at the university of chicago and went on to a number of virginia institutions over the years. He won the nobel prize in 1986 for his original contributions to our understanding of political economy. It was James Buchanan who taught charles koch for capitalism to thrive, democracy must be in chains. Amy President Trump says the Environmental Protection agency will roll back and obama policy environmental policy. Pres. Trump the socalled waters of the United States rule is one of the worst examples of federal regulation and it has truly run amok. Amy this comes as the intercept reports the person trump has tapped to be
Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s