Fellowship former president of the prison fellowship when he was there he liked to talk about the fact that today we lock people up because we are mad at them when we should be reserving prison and jail space for people who we are afraid of. There are obviously people who have committed crimes and who are dangerous enough that they need to be kept away from rest of society. They built the prisons and the prosecutors build them up. I have to say one thing in trying to get real Prison Reform through and we have done most of our work at the state level as im sure doug knows, we have had Great Success working with democrats, republicans conservatives and liberals than with governors who are concerned about two things. One, the way their systems are working or not working in the cost of the systems in many states across the prison system is greater than the cost of a Public Education system and they both work just about as well but maybe a reallocation of resources might be in order. I have
We have with us, moving from the left to the right geographically otherwise erhaps [laughter] lurk, the attorney maryland, the former states attorney in Montgomery County, former president of the National Association of attorney generals. Next to him is jeff. Assistant for Camara Harris of california. Jeff oversees criminal law as a special assistant in california. Next to jeff is cyrus vance, the District Attorney. Those of us in manhattan know him well. Next to him as anthony, the commissioner of the Baltimore Police department. Has joined us today. Finally, to my immediate left we have david keene who is a Founding Member. Former president of the National Association. Former chair of the American Conservative Union and a board member of the constitution project. Mornings next events will proceed is as follows. Each member of the panel will have a view minutes to discuss issues of key importance to them and then will move through some significant things. Attribute personal that is re
Was born and raised in new orleans. I am the second youngest u. S. Attorney fry now in our country and happen to have lost a brother to street violence in new orleans. We are using the student pledge against gun violence where we are going to all 450 schools on one day, october 15 of 28. Were simply asking the young people to pledge not to bring a gun to school. Weaponomise not to use a and promised to use the influence with family and friends to ensure those individuals to not use a weapon to resolve a fight or dispute. Since 1996. Around over 10 million have used this and taken the pledge. I think ultimately on that day send a veryd powerful message that our young people are taking a stand against violence in the community and schools. The second piece of the work in terms of prevention and intervention really is and how shoot. Have a prevention strategy built off of professor kennedys work. It is a fantastic initiative. It has been implemented in various cities across the country. W
Are able to function with it and they are able to get through, weather with their colleagues or because they know how to manage it, they continue with it, but they still have some of the symptoms. That is another thing that goes along with what you were saying, you have ptsde does not mean you are addled with all kinds of disabilities, but it could be that it is something it affects your sleep light might narrow like nightmares. And traumaticsd brain injury overlap, a lot of times has to do with the way that somebody thats a traumatic brain injury could be through a that theyevent, so might have ptsd associated with the dramatic brain injury. If traumatic brain injury toelops later on in dimension, which we are seeing more and more evidence that that is a possibility, i am optimistic and i would be surprised if it were not the case that the v. A. Is going to look at that and take that into consideration. [indiscernible] i think that is another panel. We could answer your questions afte
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