Periods of time. We heard about the serious impact, fiscal impact of solitary confinement. It costs almost three times as much to keep a federal prisoner in segregation than in the general population. And we learned about the human impact of holdsing tens of thousands of men, women and children in small, windowless cells 23 hours a day, for days, for months and for years with very little if any contact with the outside world. This extreme isolation can have serious psychological impacts on an inmate. According to several studies, at least half of all prison suicides occur in solitary confinement. And ill never forget the testimony in our last hearing of anthony graves, who was held in solitary for ten of his 18 years in prison before he was exonerated. Mr. Graves told this Sub Committee and i quote, no one can begin to imagine the psychological effects isolation has on another human being. Solitary confinement does one thing, it breaks a mans will to live. Now, ive been chairman of thi
Just for your use, our staff had put together a summary of the evaluations that several of our speakers today had put into their presentations. So when you are looking for things that you can work on, we have put it all on one page for you. So take that as grist for your legislative mill or your policy mill. I want to thank you for your attention to a really under underappreciated set of issues that we were ai belieble to add. I want to thank our friends for allow us to put this together and helping us to recruit some of the folks you have heard. I want to thank our panel and particularly i want to recall the eloquent testimony that we heard from deborah rowe and Jacqueline Craig bay as well as the panelists you see up here and ask you to join me in thanking all of them for a very useful discussion on a very difficult topic. [ applause ] thank you, ed. Tonight on cspan3, an interview with Michigan States university. Its part of our special sear on universities in the big 10 conference.
Turkey where autists is struggling to cope with the increasingly autocratic grip of the government. But first we had to run in Northern Syria where the battle for the city appears to be in its final throes. For several years the iraqi city of mosul and raca in syria were in the hands of the socalled Islamic State then a few months ago the iraqi army managed to liberate mosul. Grackles i remained under the terrorists control i asked plans to make it the capital of their future counterfeits to in june troops from the northern kurdish territories began liberating the city gradually putting an end to the terra tree executions on trip pression hundreds of thousands of people in Northern Syria have been forced to flee the fights to liberate iraq could be over soon partly as a result of u. S. Military support but its being left devastated. You could say this man actually got off lightly he survived a booby trap left behind by retreating i asked troops german trauma surgeon michelle vilks trea
[shouting] quiet, quiet. Thats the democrats law. We can change it tonight. We can change it. You are the president. We need their votes the democrats [everyone talking at the same time] chambers of commerce. Excuse me, by one vote. We dont need it. You need 60 votes. We have one vote. Excuse me, we need a one vote. We have a one vote edge we need 60. We need 10 votes. We cant get them from the democrats. What about executive action. Wait. Wait. You cant do it through executive action. [everyone talking at the same time] can we do one question at a time . Wait, one question at a time. The children, the children can be taken care of quickly, beautifully and immediately. The democrats forced that law upon our nation. I hate it i hate to see separation of parents and children. Martha so we now know there are almost 2,000 of these children and House Democratic leader nancy pelosi firing back. She called the president today shameful. Watch. He is using dreamers whether they are dreamers or
Supporters in the end. Also who deserves due process in the United States . The president tweeting this morning about u. S. Immigration laws that may put that into question. Well ask the first ladys immigration attorney about that. Were going to start with a live picture, though, of capitol hill. Now reaction from the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee, mike mccaul, the republican congressman suggests the Trump Administrations zero toll raerance border policy may soon coming to an end. Heres what congressman mccaul said earlier. I have heard recent reports now that that may be that policy may be revisited. And it may not go forward. Zero toleranctolerance . Thats some solve tof the re im getting. Its unclear how the executive order plays out. Im unclear of the prosecution of the parents. I think they want to reunite the family, and then remove them from the country. Meanwhile, democrats including one lawmaker who visited a Detention Center this weekend is firing back at