watch. obviously, the president meant in totality the number that have been released on the battlefield, that have been released from gitmo since individuals have been released. so that is correct. except for the part about blaming mr. obama and not mr. bush. we should note, george w. bush explained in his memoir that he released prisoners because, the detention facility had become a propaganda tool for our enemies and a distraction for our allies. of the 122 former detainees who returned to terrorism, 30 are now dead, 25 back in custody, 67 are still thought to be action. shannon? shannon: quite a recidivism rates. trace, thank you. using the twitter feed to open up new lines of attack. that includes illinois senator durbin who went so far as to suggest mr. trump is destroying the credibility of the office through social media. donald trump is destroying
watch. obviously, the president meant in totality the number that have been released on the battlefield, that have been released from gitmo since individuals have been released. so that is correct. except for the part about blaming mr. obama and not mr. bush. we should note, george w. bush explained in his memoir that he released prisoners because, the detention facility had become a propaganda tool for our enemies and a distraction for our allies. of the 122 former detainees who returned to terrorism, 30 are now dead, 25 back in custody, 67 are still thought to be action. shannon? shannon: quite a recidivism rates. trace, thank you. using the twitter feed to open up new lines of attack. that includes illinois senator durbin who went so far as to suggest mr. trump is destroying the credibility of the office through social media.
when he comes out i shall be like him moral rehabilitation is the only true rehabilitation. you teach them the skills and trades and to read and write, but we just have a smarter criminal unless we put moral component with it. accused by some of turning the prison into a christian revival camp, warden cain has a simple response. one guy brought up the issue of separation of church and state. i said to him, don t let your inflexibility make you ineffective. we don t care what religion you are, we just need this church because this is an island of freedom, and we can start working on them to be a more moral person, and our recidivism rates go down, and that equals less victims of violent crime, which is what we re after. if we save one, it s worth it all. one is worth it. and so no one, no one in his right mind would object to trying to have morality in a prison.
judges, wolf, have to carefully examine all of the petitions before them. in fact, in that christmas, about 26% of those pet tigds by inmates have been denied by federal judges, so there s definitely a built-in system of checks and balances. they aren t violent offenders. these are nonviolent drug offenders that were incarcerated for really long periods of time under the federal sentencing guidelines. i know this. as a federal prosecutor, elves beholding to sort of those federal sentencing guidelines. so i think that the real question is, rather than be worried about the recidivism rates, which is about 40% of people that are released, we ve got to who irabout whether or not they have treatment for a lot of their addictions. we ve got to worry about training. we ve got to worry about certainly sort of this ban the box so there are job opportunities, and we should be worried about housing. so those are the real issues. this other issue that the
shine. there s not many that came back. i can t say that, you know this city is not as full and vibrant as it used to be. those people reporter: can you feel the difference? yes, i can feel the difference. you know, it s more of an eerie a touristy feeling. it s not a family feeling. you know? reporter: some parts of the city are different, more entrepreneurship are hard to see in the lower ninth ward. that being said, i can see that the spirit of resilience that was always here was never swept away. trymaine lee, nbc, new orleans. the massive destruction of a city that was dysfunctional in many ways has raised a provocative question did new orleans need to be destroyed in order to be saved? the best-selling author of outliers and the tipping point, malcolm gladwell wrote an article for the new yorker looking into the city s school system, its neighborhoods and whether some people were simply better off never coming back to new orleans. i met with gladwell and i a