when i saw alice s beautiful family greet her at the prison gates, hugging and kissing and crying and laughing. i knew i did something right. alice is with us tonight and she is a terrific woman. terrific. alice, please. [ applause ] alice, thank you for reminding us that we always have the power to shape our own destiny.
when i saw alice s beautiful family greet her at the prison gates, hugging and kissing, crying and laughing, i knew i did it, i did something right. alice s with us tonight, and she is a terrific woman. terrific. alice, please. [applause] alice, thank you for reminding us that we always have the power to shape our own destiny. thank you very much, alice,
nonviolent drug offender. over the next 22 years, she became a prison minister, inspiring others to choose a better path. she had a big impact on that prison population and far beyond. alice s story underscores the disparities and unfairness that can exist in criminal sentencing and the need to remedy this total injustice. she served almost that 22 years, and had expected to be in prison for the remainder of her life. in june, i commuted alice s sentence. when i saw alice s beautiful family greet her at the prison gates, hugging and kissing and
now mira s has to return to his mother in prison the separation is always hard for jan guess. he s worried what will be in store for his son in there this time and who will his wife and child have to share their cell with. the corps and looking songwriter there are the mercy of their cell mates tolerance. they might complain is near as crimes at night. fifteen women sleep in one cell things like that tend to haunt you. he doesn t want mirrors to notice that he s worried they say their goodbyes at the gaps of prison gates. either come on we re going to mama. you. behind the gate or his father has to hand him over to god once again.
60s where almost no one went to prison where. they tried probation, super probation, super-super probation, anything to get people out of prison. and crime increased 20% in a two-year period, the peak being 79 and 80. drug abuse was rampant. we had a lot of difficult problems during that period of time because of the undeserved leniency taking place. if we re changing sentencing, it ought to be done very carefully and in a very deliberate manner with careful evaluation of what happens. now probably there are some laws that should be changed. that s why we have a sentencing commission at federal level. that s why states are handling this. but where there s this mass opening of the prison gates such as california. we ve seen serious increases in crime. mark: and i ve never understood this argument, some of these