Join us this thursday for live coverage of the white house state dinner for justin trudeau. Beginning at 6 15 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Participants include federal judges, advocates and state attorneys general. Good morning. Welcome to the alternative sentencing key stakeholder summit. My name is aaron lipskar. Im the director of the institute. Along with our many partners that have collaborated, worked with us by producing this event today. We are privileged and honored you have joined us here as we take some time over the next few days to talk about and share our experiences and ideas regarding alternative sentencing and explore the possible role that alternative sentences can play both in reducing our number of individuals that are incarcerated but certainly delivering on Public Safety and fiscal efficiency and responsibility. We have as you can see from the program to very full days. We are very thankful that we have very excellent to experts and leaders in the fields of alternative