Example, out of trenton, where an in mate by the name of sean washington in 2013 he was a clerk at the library and he wanted to leave the library to go bring some legal papers to one of the other inmates but a corrections officer said you cannot leave and the facts are disputed but the worst facts, the facts that the state claims, is that mr. Washington then said mother fer, dont tell me what to do. What was his punishment . 90 days in solitary confinement. That is a real example we see all across the nation. So just for time. So we know that people are being sent to solitary for many Different Reasons and some of them have to do with administrative issues and the like. Right. Does it work in terms of somehow effecting the behavior of prison str any is there any productive value in the bureau of prisons. Im going to push back on the language they use and some people are sent to solitary for administrative reasons and that is a loaded term because the bureau of prisons commonly call sol
Continued activation of the facility we are working very, very closely with the warden staff there to ensure our recruitment efforts remain on target, and were also ensuring that as we build a population, that were making sure that the inmate to staff ratio is where it needs to be so we dont have more inmates in a facility until were very comfortable with the number of staff that we have at the facility. And this is continuing to progress. I know there was a concern at one period of time where the applicant pool was not necessarily where we would like it. But with it the recruitment efforts, were starting to see that we have a very good pool for hiring individuals to work at the facility. So one followup i wanted on the applicant pool. This is an area of our state where people are always looking for more jobs. And so to get people from the area that have strong backgrounds, one of the issues thats been a challenge is the 37yearold age restriction. And has the bureau of prison actually
Coalition for criminal justice. My function behind this is to educate the American People and make them go to the legislators have called for change because at the end of the day, but the Heritage Foundation and all of these advocacy groups allowed for fighting for change in fighting for the reform. If you dont fight to change the laws you will be having this 30 years from now doing the exact same thing. The law has to change and the more the public knows about what goes on in the system and the reality, the more they will fight for change because i promise you the American Public and the legislators who saw what i saw and witnessed what i witnessed there would be in there and outrage and chain. Now the mission is to get them to see. Hispanic did you get any different perspective after you got to know jack abram off and also did you have any speculation or theory about the arrest that led to the death of a man in baltimore and the Six Police Officers that have been accused, do you have
It seems like it wasnt too long ago when this was a lot of talk, at least in this city, about mexicos promise, mexicos moment. A new administration. A political pact among its main parties. And latin americas most ambitious and wideranging reform agenda that seemed to enjoy broad support. In fact, many important measures were enacted in a short period of time. Lately, however, the news from mexico has been of greater concern. Security and human rights issues, rule of law challenges generally have come to the fore. The disappearance of 43 students almost a year ago highlighted in dramatic fashion these persistent problems. Last month, on july 11th, the Cartel Leader Joaquin Guzman El Chapo Escaped from a maximum security prison, exposing what many see as systemic corruption and contributing to a loss of confidence in the government. Corruption allegations have dogged president pena net toe and his administration. Less than a week ago, last friday, in fact, mexican photo journalist Ruben