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confinement from federal prison during the covid pandemic. those 4,000 individuals may have to go back to federal prison if president biden doesn t act soon. one of those individuals is a 74-year-old grandmother by the name of gwen levi, this a case that has had awareness raised about. she went to computer class and she haase now been deemed an escapee buy the bureau of prisons. not only do they want to send her back to prison, they want to lengthen they are sentence. it is crazy. i think this is the greatest crisis before the biden administration right now. and moi hope is that a.g. garland and friends like gupta and monaco serving with him over at the department of justice will recommend full clemency for these roughly 4,000 individuals as soon as possible. now, justice garland has been active in some of the areas of
morning. she knows that i m appearing and speaking to your audience. she s doing well, considering the circumstances, considering that she s locked in a cage for independence day. i think that we are not having a serious conversation about justice and independence in america as long as people like gwen levi are sitting in prison cages for trying to get an education for what s called technical violations in the system. there s no crime that was committed here, but she s still locked up. this is heartbreaking. and she s not alone. as we mentioned, there are over 4,000 people who were released and could be sent back to jail. the biden administration, this was an old trump doj memo, the biden administration has kept in place, and they revisit every three months. and the next deadline to revisit is this month. so i truly hope that your client benefits from this. chris, we have a long way to go with criminal justice reform here. i think people have thought, oh, the first step was passed, w
why do we still have it. the cash bail system funnels people to jail. your film was great. talk to us about how the cash bail system is such a problem in this country. sure, great to be with you. take a step back for a second. the situation with ms. levi is just an example, and this is something people have said for years, but our country, our system, is addicted to incarceration, whether it s on the front end or back end of the system. and like mrs. levi s case shows, she s gone back for a technical violation like her lawyer just mentioned, this is someone who just violated the terms of her probation. on the back end of the system we saw for years people going back into jail or into prison because they had not committed a new crime, but they had done a technical violation violating the probation, like a situation like this where she missed a phone call.
these are not people who the right will say are sort of violent criminals, who are out on bail and committing crimes. this is not what we re talking about. generally speaking we re talking about people who are simply in jail because of low-level crimes, they have a $1,000 or $2,000 bond amount. they can t pay it, so they re stuck in jail until they have to come to their court date. and very often during that time they lose their jobs, their housing, they re parents and their children go into foster care. so it is essentially a human rights violation that we re seeing every day that are violating people s constitutional principles of being able to have affordable bail that they can come out and pay and then fight their case. that s what our film deals with. more broadly it s our addiction in incarceration. at every step of the criminal justice system what reformers have tried to address, slowly but surely, but we still see situations like ms. levi and the people we focus on in our
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