talk to your doctor today, and learn how janssen can help you explore cost support options. remission can start with stelara®. you know the way it works sometimes is you re in prison, because your daddy was in prison and your kid will be in prison. are you afraid for your prison? definitely. where i grew up, i didn t know my father. my father was murdered when i was 3 years old. i never knew him. in a new nbc news series, nightly news anchor lester holt takes an in-depth look at the intricacies of america s justice system. it feet explores new ways of seeking justice. as part of the the serieses holt spent three days and two nights inside the largest maximum security prison in the country, louisiana s state penitentiary, known as angola, to get a raw
every dollar you invest for education in prison lowers your cost for future crimes by about $4. we need to start about restorative justice and investing in those evidence-based programs that we know will make us safer but also elevate human potential and dignity. senator, elle has a question for you now. you ve done a good job in your next step program focusing on the other side of criminal justice reform, which are people who are not criminals, who are being harassed and brutalized by the cops in this country. i think you have a lot of good ideas about how to bring police brutality to heal, but how do you propose to do it from the perch of the presidency, which doesn t have that kind of local control over police, what kind of incentive structures are offering to get local cops to do what you need them to do, to stop brutalizing people like me? well, i wish that this got a lot more attention, but barack
democrats go low, it s how to democrats go for power. i agree. one of the things that cory booker said is, movement he also talked about how he would use the justice department. i think what he has not said, and this is maybe something you don t actually say out loud on the campaign trail, but i think democrats want to hear it, to your point, joy, how are you going to get us democratic power. that s right. it s not just using the tools of the administrativadministrat executive branch. it s not just how you use your justice department, it s are you fighting for labor unions? how are you fighting for them? so that there s actually a base that has some political power? are you going to, what are you going to do about corruption and how will you use your power of the presidency to deal with the apparatus of funding and citizens united. what are we doing to think about how we take back the courts? because those are this also goes to how you re going to use your power to break th
the floor speaking out against the very bills that i wanted to get passed, and i started working across the aisle and before you knew it, he was with me on those pieces of legislation. so i believe in building coalitions. this is not a democrat or republican issue. this is a justice and freedom issue, and plain and simple, we are the incarceration nation of the planet earth. we have 5 4% to 5% of the globe s population but one out of every incarcerated women on the earth is in this country, one out of every incarcerated people on the planet earth are in this country. it has to stop. if you believe in liberty, you should be with me. if you believe that government is getting too big, while the prison system has exploded 800% since the 1980s, we should fight back against that. if you believe that we should stop and combat racism, the constitutional racism in our criminal justice system must be confronted. this is an issue that should unite americans. i ve shown the ability to do that in t
unfiltered look at life behind bars. to give a person a life sentence and then just say look, you re not worthy of rehabilitation, i believe that s where we get it wrong. so you re saying if we take hope out of the equation, that s where we get in equation. if you take hope out of the equation it s a lot of trouble. justice for all continues with a town hall filmed outside a maximum security prison in new york, hosted by lester holt, john legend, former attorney general loretta lynch and 25 inmates from the prison. the series is part of a growing effort to examine a criminal justice system that s made america the country is the highest incarceration rate in the entire world. the prison population is ridden with racial disparities, unjust sentences and high rates of recidivism, which is why criminal justice reform has become a key issue in next year s presidential election. many 2020 democrats have already released plans to tackle this issue, including my next guest, joining m