Your specific term. I just want to say this, that the word institutionalization, for these programs, is not one that weve started talking about as a community, say, in the last six months. Under the leadership of the agac, the attorney generals advisory committee, our first chairman was todd jones who had been a former u. S. Attorney in the late 1990s. He came back he said he is a recidivist came back as u. S. Attorney again starting in 2008. Todd preached from day one in institutionalization. Paul did as well, Loretta Lynch as well. Lanny wanted to respond though. I was just going to give an answer to the judges question, one example that my colleagues can talk about what theyre doing in their districts. But the attorney general was mindful of it, so one of the privileges when you are the head of the Criminal Division is you work with the u. S. Sentencing commission and we did do that. We also are able to work with the attorney general and with your colleagues in the u. S. Attorneys o
Of rights, its important. They cannot be taken from an individual. These are natural rights. An unalienable rights. Eq un they werent given to us by the government. Its an important thing to remember. We must be engaged to help all people. Particularly the fifth and sixth amendment. Thats why it says the fifth amendment, weve got to make sure before we take anyones life, liberty or property, you have to have a due process of law. The sixth amendment guarantees the right to defense counsel. We need to remember that as we work in the coming months to try to fix the system thats not working now. And i dont need to go4l into the over criminalization issue. Youve heard it here today. Youll hear more of the impact it has on everybody across the board. And i want to talk just briefly about why did we come to the table . Why Coke Industries . Heres the story. Many years ago, our employees met with the texas tate environmental regulator, disclosed inaccurate report filed and that we were out of
Talking to the folks who have been helped recently in cleveland, a guy named melvin in and out of the system five or six times. Obviously, he had a tough time holding a job, has an addiction problem, hes been clear now for four years. Because of the Second Chance act, he not only had the opportunity to get some help, but, also, job training, hes got a full time job. Hes a supervisor in a kitchen. Most important thing of all, he has a home. And in his home, he has a daughter who he had washington has played a key role in the last ten years of privilege bringing up the awareness and helping to leverage a lot more activity at the local level. Often, this is going to be addressed in a successful way at the community level. And i dont mean a state level, i mean, like, the district. People understanding that this is not just about saving taxpayer money from incarceration, which it is. And republicans take note, in is about fiscal conservative. Its not just about pure crimes in the neighborho
Was born and raised in new orleans. I am the second youngest u. S. Attorney fry now in our country and happen to have lost a brother to street violence in new orleans. We are using the student pledge against gun violence where we are going to all 450 schools on one day, october 15 of 28. Were simply asking the young people to pledge not to bring a gun to school. Weaponomise not to use a and promised to use the influence with family and friends to ensure those individuals to not use a weapon to resolve a fight or dispute. Since 1996. Around over 10 million have used this and taken the pledge. I think ultimately on that day send a veryd powerful message that our young people are taking a stand against violence in the community and schools. The second piece of the work in terms of prevention and intervention really is and how shoot. Have a prevention strategy built off of professor kennedys work. It is a fantastic initiative. It has been implemented in various cities across the country. W
Are able to function with it and they are able to get through, weather with their colleagues or because they know how to manage it, they continue with it, but they still have some of the symptoms. That is another thing that goes along with what you were saying, you have ptsde does not mean you are addled with all kinds of disabilities, but it could be that it is something it affects your sleep light might narrow like nightmares. And traumaticsd brain injury overlap, a lot of times has to do with the way that somebody thats a traumatic brain injury could be through a that theyevent, so might have ptsd associated with the dramatic brain injury. If traumatic brain injury toelops later on in dimension, which we are seeing more and more evidence that that is a possibility, i am optimistic and i would be surprised if it were not the case that the v. A. Is going to look at that and take that into consideration. [indiscernible] i think that is another panel. We could answer your questions afte