The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , august 4 2015. I hereby appoint the honorable jeff denham to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain reverend dr. Dan c. Cummings from Skyline Wesleyan Church in san diego, california. The chaplain join with me in prayer. To the lord, the chief shepherd and savior of our souls. While members of congress are at home in their districts, we pray give each member rest. Cause them to lie down in Green Pastures lead them beside the still waters, restore and refresh their souls, lead them in the paths of righteousness for your namesake and our nations benefit. While other members are abroad who may walk through the valley of the shadow of death let them fear no evil, assure them you are near. Let your rod and your staff bring comfort. Prepare a table for all in the presence of their families. Anoint them wit
Couple years ago when we were looking at the number of individuals who would meet the criteria for the release based on a terminal illness, we discovered that there were 200 inmates in the bureau of prisons. Once they were identified coming up to go further in making sure that for those individuals being considered, that they have the resources if they are given the opportunity and released under that program. 200 inmates agencywide with a population at times that was at 220,000 is a very small number. Senator we are talking about passionate release, early release, release of foreign nationals. Are you saying that the law or the regulation is written to restrictively and doesnt give you the latitude to utilize those programs more fully . Inspector general, i will be asking you the same question. Mr. Samuels we moved from apple to nonmedical. Even when we look at those cases , when you are looking at the criteria as well as being responsible for Public Safety for any of those individual
Example, out of trenton, where an in mate by the name of sean washington in 2013 he was a clerk at the library and he wanted to leave the library to go bring some legal papers to one of the other inmates but a corrections officer said you cannot leave and the facts are disputed but the worst facts, the facts that the state claims, is that mr. Washington then said mother fer, dont tell me what to do. What was his punishment . 90 days in solitary confinement. That is a real example we see all across the nation. So just for time. So we know that people are being sent to solitary for many Different Reasons and some of them have to do with administrative issues and the like. Right. Does it work in terms of somehow effecting the behavior of prison str any is there any productive value in the bureau of prisons. Im going to push back on the language they use and some people are sent to solitary for administrative reasons and that is a loaded term because the bureau of prisons commonly call sol
Continued activation of the facility we are working very, very closely with the warden staff there to ensure our recruitment efforts remain on target, and were also ensuring that as we build a population, that were making sure that the inmate to staff ratio is where it needs to be so we dont have more inmates in a facility until were very comfortable with the number of staff that we have at the facility. And this is continuing to progress. I know there was a concern at one period of time where the applicant pool was not necessarily where we would like it. But with it the recruitment efforts, were starting to see that we have a very good pool for hiring individuals to work at the facility. So one followup i wanted on the applicant pool. This is an area of our state where people are always looking for more jobs. And so to get people from the area that have strong backgrounds, one of the issues thats been a challenge is the 37yearold age restriction. And has the bureau of prison actually
And disable action. Id like to thank supervisor campos for bringing this issue before the board today. As the housing advocate for sda, seniors are living in a lot of fear right now and quite frankly im disgusting, and thats to say the very least as to the state of affairs for seniors right now going through ellis act evictions, being intimidate and now were seeing 37 years were coming on the anniversary of the evictions of the i Hotel Tenants in 1977, coming on the anniversary of that, were seeing that we still are having this issue in keeping seniors housed and from what i understand in the bylaws of University Mound, this this Mission Statement that theyre mission was to remain an assisted care facility in perpetuity. Seeing the dire need for housing and the conditions right now, the state of affairs with senior housing, how the eviction notices were even issueed is of great disgust. Im norly disgusting with the situation, being a fifth generation San Francisco citizen and someone w