Foundation chicago is. Working with jurisdiction to my counties, millions of dollars going in to help them really look at what the practices are people sitting in a room, its incredible. It is happening. Is the think its where we need to be. Live this morning inside the Montgomery County correctional facility inside one of the Housing Units there. Mr. Green is the director for the county department of corrections and rehabilitation. Go ahead. You are on the air. My name is thomas and ii had experience from both ends of the spectrum. Im in a licensed therapist and a lot of the programs give a lot of credit. Really interested in change. But there is enough responsibility amim sorry, enough plane, responsibility, and complicity to go around. The reasons forward when the inmates, their behavior, from an, from an ethnicity standpoint blacks blame whites, whites and blacks. But there is enough responsibility for both. When it comes to the judicial system there is a factor we fail to look at.
Discussion. When someone views themselves as a convict, if society views somebody as a convict, that isolates and minimizes their role and ability to participate productively in our community. Identifying yourself or somebody else as a returning citizen is intended to remove that label to fully embrace them as a person first who has a criminal whoory, rather than someone is a criminal history, and that is all they could potentially be. Acknowledging that these are individuals who we want to come back and that we want to embrace and for them to help improve and rebuild their lives is at the heart of everything that is the focus of our work. It is not a matter of providing what we think sounds nice and what might be meaningful to us. Its a matter of what is going to really help make successful change possible for that person. Host we move on to alex in rockville, maryland. Youre on the air. Guest good morning. I wanted to make a point. Ive seen a lot in the news with like lives matter an
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