Hi everyone. I think were going to get started. I hope everyone is doing good. My name is lily and im not Public Programs according to. We are so glad that you joined us. To celebrate them and help us launch our new series pet out loud. They will be introduced momentarily. It is a new monthly series presented by pen america. Provides us with an amazing topic. The free expression. Next monday october 2 it will be back on the second floor. We will speak about border crossings. We will welcome the poets. On december 11. We are performing that. The National Book award. The one in december will be appear. The other two will be downstairs on the second floor. I want to take a minute on the rest of the team been so judgmental for pulling this together. Finally is my pleasure to introduce nancy wyden. [applause]. Thank you lily. Im so happy to have you here. The strand was founded by my grandfather couple years ago in 1927 and up until three months ago because he retired. We were part of our r
Year into indefinite detention people are willing to confess to anything in order to get there case moved into the court system. You see people get to court and want to repudiate their confession. Of course, what does the court turned around and do . You cant repudiate. Repudiate. I think that it is true that we didnt we do tend to assume that people detained are guilty. If you look at the number, in fact, it is not actually true. There is an earlier stage in which they accept the case. They used to give us those numbers in the annual report they have stopped doing it for whatever reason, but in the old days about half of those initially investigated never ended up with an indictment. What i assume is lot of those people end up getting an administrative punishment because it is determined they have not really committed a major offense. What we dont know is how many of those people get off because they are determined to be not guilty. But i think you are absolutely right. When it hits t
A captive audience. You can work with them in so many different ways to make sure that you do more and get that recidivism rate down to the 20 percent where taxpayers are no longer paying 30 some thought to 530 some odd thousand dollars a year to house these people. It is a win win for everyone involved. The notion of talking about reentry and figuring out Practical Solutions is something we need to continue to dialogue as we go forward. Thank you for that. We have time for two really good and short questions. [applauding] [inaudible question] and if you look at the issue of wrongful convictions, it is clear that wrongful convictions more likely affect africanamericans and other minority groups. So if we we are talking about bringing an end to mass incarceration, shouldnt we be talking about bringing an end to wrongful convictions . I think we would like to invite a comment on that. Just before we get there, before you get to the prosecutor you often get to lineups and things like that
Heard of that. We all remember typhoid mary of lore and she had the ability to infect people. Do your typhoid marys have the ability to infect people when theyre asymptomatic . We dont know. Thats the question. Typhoid mary, in the case of her, she was dealing with a bacterial infection. Right. What i do know for a fact, there have been a number of asymptomatic nonfebrill people whose blood has been drawn and they tested positive. I think there is something about the pcr test. In medicine, you never say 100 . The thing with ebola, if you dont bat 1 wh00 every day, it exposed. My point is we need go to africa and fight the disease over there and keep it contained. Two of your doctors were infected and werent sure why. We had two nurses in dallas and were infected and were not sure why. That underscores there is a lot more not known about this disease and is known and i would extend that to mr. Waxman, we all need humility on this. And what you did in dallas to have good discipline to wh
Check out my facebook page, kite runner, where the wild things are, huk finn, and our facebook, jim has a comment, if you backed a book that offended someone, you would ban every book. Serena asked. What counts as a quote unquote dangerous idea . Judgment will be arbitrary and here is an interesting one. Library comment, i read one day in the life of ivan denisovich. What is graphic, what is objectionable, who gets to decide . Thats the big point is it being decided in a vacuum . How does a book become offlimits . Books like captain underpants and the kite runner have been one of the most challenged books in libraries. The kids, second half of 2012 to the same period in 2013. Bans are often requested by concerned parents to restrict books that they find inappropriate. But before a book can be banned it does have to go enthuse a process. Objectionable content has ranged from sexually explicit material to violence and profanity. Here is how some of it breaks down. Now one complaint can i