$6250 for each of his 28 years behind bars. from 2016 to 2020, 374 people wrongfully convicted of murder, 61% african-americans, have reunited with their families together they spent over 6000 years in prison. years. years they will never get back. that s all for this edition of dateline. i am craig melvin. thank you for watching. i am craig melvin and this is dateline. leading up to this assign what it was going to be like. i had so many thoughts leading to this assignment as to what it would be like. trying to imagine going down isoad, knowing it s a one- way trip. this moment where you get your last glimpse of the world around you, but that glimpse is through steelman mesh. louisiana highway 66. it s beautiful countryside and undoubtedly not lost on the countless men driven to the place where they will most likely die. that road ends here. the louisiana state penitentiary, a former plantation. the size of manhattan. 28 square miles. most people call it angola named
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (Ill.) criticized Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday for failing to enact ethics reform before the court wrapped up its term this month and pledged to advance a Democratic ethics reform bill soon. “Many questions remain at the end of the court’s latest term regarding its reputation, credibility, and…
significant progress implementing these goals in a white house fact sheet issued just this morning. we know achieving comprehensive and lasting change at the state and local levels requires congress to act. so today once again president biden is urging congress to pass meaningful reform legislation, including the george floyd justice in policing act. it is up to congress to send this to his desk. once they do, he will sign this law. okay. with that, josh. good to see you, my friend. good to see you. how are you doing on the deadline? a little better. how are you doing? i could be doing better. jet lag is real. two questions jacqui heinrich gi congress and prescribe will be in d.c. this weekend? i have this question, i can only speak for the president, i can t speak for the speaker, how he chooses to move forward
i m determined, once again, to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. [applause] let s finish the job, ban a salt weapons, banned them again, do it now, enough, knew something. [sound of gunfire] but with major reform legislation on hold, it remains up to the police to continually prepare for the day they may have to risk their own lives to stop a gunman. [speaking non-english] [sound of gunfire] we don t want to happen, statistics tell us it will happen. but here we sit, ready to respond to anything that may come our way, anywhere were not called. josh campbell, cnn, los angeles. the u.s. state of ohio has filed a lawsuit in federal court against railroad company norfolk southern. the lawsuit alleges the company violated state environmental laws when one of its trains derailed in east palestine last month, unleashing toxic chemicals into the community. the state attorney general says
ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. let s finish the job. ban assault weapons. ban them again, due it now. enough. do something. reporter: but with major reform legislation on hold, it remains up to the police to continually prepare for the day that they may have to risk their own lives to stop a gunman. we don t want to happen, statistics tell us that it will happen. but here we sit ready to respond to anything that may come our way anywhere we re called. reporter: josh campbell, cnn, los angeles. for the first time the u.s. environmental protection agency is proposing a national drinking water standard for so-called forever chemicals known as pfas. water systems would have to monitor for six specific chemicals and notify the public about pfas level. in a the chemicals can cause