Al let us start with the issue of crime. This is a National Reentry week, where you are trying to help people who get out of prison to have a more productive life. Let me just start though, why do we have the highest incarceration rate in the world . Ms. Lynch you know, we certainly do have one of the highest rates in the world. It stems from a number of sources. I think we look back at the efforts that were made never truly seeking to reduce violence, to deal with the burgeoning drug problem, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, and the violence that accompanied them. And what people thought was, a need to appear very, very tough on crime, without thinking through the results of a lot of those actions. We have lived with those results now for several generations seeing the effects of some of , the laws and regulations and statutes that we have. Al was the 1994 crime act bad . That had a lot of attention. In retrospect ms. Lynch it did not think through all of the consequences of what
Where you are trying to help people who get out of prison to have a more productive life. Let me just start though, why do we have the highest incarceration rate in the world . We certainly do have one of the highest rates in the world. It stems from a number of sources. I think we look back at the efforts that were made never truly seeking to reduce violence, to deal with the burgeoning drug problem, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s,nd the violence that accompanied them. And the need to appear very, withoutgh on crime, thinking through the results of a lot of those actions. We have lived with those results for now, several generations, seeing the effects of some of the laws and regulations and statutes that we have. Al was the 1994 crime act bad . That had a lot of attention. In retrospect ms. Lynch it did not think through all of the consequences of what it thought it would do. It was seeking to address the credible problem of violence accompanying the drug trade, particularly as
People who get out of prison to have a more productive life. Let me just start though, why do we have the highest incarceration rate in the world . Ms. Lynch we certainly do have one of the highest rates in the world. It stems from a number of sources. I think we look back at the efforts that were made never that were truly seeking to reduce violence, to deal with the burgeoning drug problem, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, and the violence that accompanied them. And what people thought was the need to appear very, very tough on crime, without thinking through the results of a lot of those actions. We have lived with those results for now, several generations, seeing the effects of some of the laws and regulations and statutes that we have. Al was the 1994 crime act bad . Was that a mistake . In retrospect, do you think that was a mistake . Ms. Lynch it did not think through all of the consequences of what it thought it would do. It was seeking to address the credible problem of v
Have a more productive life. Let me just start though, why do we have the highest incarceration rate in the world . Ms. Lynch we certainly do have one of the highest rates in the world. It stems from a number of sources. I think we look back at the efforts that were made that were truly seeking to reduce violence, to deal with the burgeoning drug problem, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, and the violence that accompanied them. And what people thought was the need to appear very, very tough on crime, without thinking through the results of a lot of those actions. We have lived with those results for now, several generations, seeing the effects of some of the laws and regulations and statutes that we have. Al was the 1994 crime act bad . Was that a mistake . In retrospect, do you think that was a mistake . Ms. Lynch it did not think through all of the consequences of what it thought it would do. It was seeking to address the credible problem of violence accompanying the drug trade, p
Culpepper and fauquier and we are under a rain advisory with an inch or so of freezing rain. We will break it down and let you know how it affects you the night and tomorrow, and what is in store for the weekend. Thank you, doug. Crews all over the region are out there right now trying to keep the roads safe before the storm hits. That ice poses a bigger challenge than the snow. Adam tuss is live in leesburg with lao what the crews are doing, and what secret weapon they have to keep the roads as clean as possible, adam . El, we wendy, there is not really a secret weapon when it comes to the ice, because it is a different animal. As we have been talking to the road crews, they have been telling us that snow is the fluffy snow that we had in some of the recent storms where you could brush it off with a broom is a different story, but the ice, yeah. Here in virginia, vdot has something best described as a syruptyped substance called chem shield. Call it the witchs brew for road crews. You