By contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Incarceration rate is one area in which this country shouldnt be leading the world. But we are. It is at an estimated 2. 4 million adults contributing to the profit of privatization of prisons putting profits over rehabilitation. Joining us tonight to talk about it, bryan stevenson. The founder and executive director of the alabamabased equal Justice Initiative which has won major challenges to unfair sentencing as well as for those on death row. Hes a macarthur genius, harvard law. His new book will be out in october. Professor at nyu. Im delighted to be here. Thank you for your work. First of all. Let me judgment in and make of the most time we have with a direct and forthright we. What is wrong with forprove prisons . Everything in america these days seems to be moving in the direction of privatization. Whats wrong with forprofit prisons . I think it is corrupt in our criminal justice system. Our incentive ought
Yamma, flash boys fame, claim the market was rigged and former australian Prime Minister, kevin rudd. Plenty to discuss with him, from the siege in sydney to the massacre in pakistan and chapter in signer hacking in light of sony and reported likelihood north korea was behind all of it before we get to that lets begin with the markets. In fact, an historic day lack agent nearly 300point gapes for the dow, second session in a row to put that in perspective we havent seen backtoback gains of this point magnitude since december of 2008, same for the s p 500, add 3 points today on top of about a 30point gain yesterday. Again, thats the first time we have seen that in more than five years. Get into this market rally and closing Ball Exchange with the nasdaq also up nearly 2 again today. Ron mullin camp us, jim lowell from advisory investment, hank smith from Haverford Trust and very own rick santelli. Welcome, everybody. Jim what do you make of this snap back . Too much too soon . No not at
Riders from new york to boston than all other airlines put together. 50 of people that travel this distance. And between washington d. C. And new york city, amtrak carries twice as many passengers as all Airlines Come bind. Today it carries 75 of inner city travel letters between new york and washington. Amtrak has done all this with the threat of funding cuts and privatization especially of the profitable northeast corridor hanging over its head. We know that in other parts of the world privatization of high speed Passenger Rail has tried and failed to solve the problems it was intended to solve. These plans were almost always preceded by funding cuts, system i can safety and reliability problems caused a great deal of upheaval in the transportation and forced countries to renational lies a system. With that being said, we think that amtraks longterm next general plan for the northeast corridor provides a temp plate for a Public Private partnership that is worth discussing. If the par
Good evening, and welcome to tos meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where youre in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at commonwealthclub. Org. Im Andrew Leonard from salon. Com, your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee who are researchers at the Mit Sloan School of management. Erik is the directer of the mit center for Digital Business and andrew is the Principal Research scientist. The two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with their selfpublished book, race against the machine, which kind of coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is really beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. They followed this up with a bigger book, the second machine age work, progress and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. And its really, i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is. In the San Francisco and greater b
You can send us a tweet if you go to twitter. Com cspanwj. On our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Or email us. We will begin with the front page of the Washington Post this is what the attorney general is going to propose, that lowlevel, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or largescale drug organizations will no longer be charged with offenses that impose severe mandatory sentences. It goes on to say it goes on to say we want to get your thoughts on this. What do you think about the attorney general setting this forward . This is his goal. He wanted to be part of his tenure. What are your thoughts about reforming the american prison system . The front page of the usa today robert in windsor mill, maryland, a democrat. You are up first. What do you think . Caller good morning. I think this is definitely a move in the right direction. Although i think it is going to continue in baby steps. What is really needed is first fullblown legalization of class d drugs such as mar