Disconnect between the notion of rehabilitation in prison and the real burdens the institutions put on inmates. The key of a return to normal life or the cost of keeping Families Together may be more than the prisoners or the prison system can afford. Lori jane gliha reports on the high price of staying connected. Every year on their birthdays, bethany fraziers boys looked forward to a special call. One running to pick it up. Kids, daddy, were running down the stairs and grabbing the phone. The voice on the other end of the phone came from their father, quincy frazier. Where he is serving time for driving drunk. I realized how important it was for kind of everybody to stay connected. Again for me, if the kids are my core concern, they needed to know that hey i do have a dad, hes not here, he cares about me, what did he has nothing to do with me. Bethany did everything she could to keep her family connected. Her youngest was just 2 when the accident happened. And she didnt want her son
This program is about 90 minutes. Mr. Bond Justice Thomas, thank your for being with us on explorations in black leadership. I want to begin with a question about brown v board. Did you have some sense that this was a big deal . Justice thomas well, not at the time. The big deal was learning the multiplication table and learning how to add, but as the years went on, particularly 1956, 1957, you got a sense of it because there was quite a bit of talk about it. My grandfather was very involved in the naacp, for example. So you heard that. You also heard, as i mentioned when i wrote my memoirs, that we saw the impeach earl warren science along the highway. Signs along the highway. Later on, i would figure it out that it was the chief justice of the United States and he was in trouble. Mr. Bond i guess there is no way i could ever say would you ever think youd be sitting at the building where girl worn worked . Where burrell worn earl warren worked . Did you have some idea of what it might
Justice thomas i did not think i would even see the building where he worked. Mr. Bond did you have some idea of what it might mean, what it could mean as opposed to what it might have turned out to mean . Justice thomas you know, my grandfather was an interesting man. And he felt that as you as these rights were vindicated, that we had an obligation to measure up, to use them. I would give you an example. When the Savannah Public Library finally desegregated and we were allowed to go to the main library, his point was that we were obligated to use it. That is, we had to show up no matter what and we had to read books because we finally had a right to do so. When it came to education, as the rights became available, we had an obligation to use them properly. So he would say to me, in 1964 when i went to the seminary which was previously allwhite, he said, dont shame me and dont shame the race. In other words, you have to perform. Mr. Bond do you think that the brown decision had someth
And the view from the other angle, when citizens turn their cameras on the cops. Theyre going to do all they can to arrest us to prevent us from recording it. Is it really against the law . America tonights adam may on the record and the law. Later this hour saving our ship. The ss United States gets a lifeline that could get a plug. Good evening. In ferguson, staten island, cleveland and all the other cities where clashes between cops and their communities have ignited flash points over Excessive Police force, we wonder what would have made a difference . Could video recordings later answer questions about what really happened . President obama thinks so. He laid out awe a multimillion dlar plan and the lapd will do that. Michael oku begins our look at cameras, cops and communities in rialto, california. What youre about to see happens every day across the country, an officer in tense pursuit of a stolen vehicle. Two suspects inside showing few signs they intend to surrender. Get out
From a low income family. They probably think that i am dangerous. And i have to live with that. America tonight sarah hoye gets real with black parents, their kids and what they need to do to stay after other americas streets. Do you fear for them . I dont want to raise my children to operate out of fear. What i want for raise them with is with awareness. And the struggle for opportunity. Why the law keeps people like sarah from saving for her own future. I want people to know that i am just like you. America tonights Sheila Macvicar on what this very able advocate did to change that. Good evening, and welcome to america tonight, the weekend edition. I am joie chen. Their motto motivation is is to protect and serve. Police tactics have put Law Enforcement across the country under scrutiny. You saw the fallout in ferguson and on staten a land, while those incidents remain disputed, a Justice Department investigation in to the Cleveland Police Department Found shocking evidence of polic