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Even after they serve time they say they face the harsh reality of life on the outside. Including social exclusion restore Voting Rights as a way to reduce the number of excons returning to prison, donald and cheryl were both formerly inning cars operated saying personal disenfranchisement neither serves them nor their communities. I just wanted to end it all that day. Typical scenario of challenges that people face within the First Six Months with when they were released from prison . Sure, the same challenges we face when we are getting out on our own. You have to find housing. You have to figure out how you are going to pay the bills so you have to get a job. You want to do all of the things that you normally do in order to just exercise your normal citizenship rights. You register to vote. All of those things that we all do. But for individuals who have been formally inning cars operated. This is so much more difficult. Because there are many barriers placed in front of them. So ma
Everybody, welcome back. Lets get a check on the day ahead before we toss it over morning joe. President obama will increase access and affordability of high Speed Internet and the Boston School board will vote on a measure to add 40 minutes to elementary and middle school kids. It will earn teachers and additional 4,000 bucks a year. That will do it. Morning joe starts right now. Good morning, everyone it is wednesday, january 14th welcome to morning joe. With us on set we have msnbc analyst former democratic congressman harold ford wallace
white house correspondent for the wall street journal and on capitol hill times reporter Jeremy Peters as well. So we begin this morning with few developments in the paris terrorist attacks. In the new video released overnight the head of al qaeda in yemen claimed responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attack which took place one week ago today. The new issue of the satirical features the Prophet Muhammad on the cover, it is sparking additional terro
Were not going back to the precoronavirus normal anytime soon. Crowded rock concerts in giant arenas, sold out broadway shows, football stadiums, filled with 100,000 people just packed next to each other. I think its pretty unlikely any of those things are going to look how they looked before. Were going to stand further away from one another. Were not going to crowd into spaces. Were going to wear masks. Workplaces that can do it are going to try to stay empty as possible, not breathing each others air, and that principle two that were not going back to normal, even in places like texas where restaurants will open on friday. Those restaurants are only allowed to have 25 capacity. In georgia, famously the most sort of out front on this, some barbers are only allowing one customer in the store at a time. Others wait outside 6 feet apart. Most people or i would say almost everyone understands that things need to change. Those are the principles we all seem to agree on. The question is wh
Back to the precoronavirus normal any time soon. Huge parties with thousands of people packed into a frat house on a College Campus or crowded rock concerts in giant arenas. Sold out broadway shows. Football stadiums filled with 100,000 people packed next to each other. I think its pretty unlikely any of those will look how they looked before. Were going stand further away and crowd into spaces and were going to wear masks and workplaces that can do it will have different people in on different shifts and stay as empty as possible so everybody is not sitting in the same bullpen breathing each others air, that principle two is acknowledged by people on the leading edge of opening up. In texas restaurants open friday. Those are only allowed to have 25 capacity. In georgia, right, georgia famously the most sort of out front on this, some barbers are allowing one customer in the store at a time. Most people, i would say almost everyone understands things need to change. Those are two thing