75 minutes, a kind of meeting of two cultures. One culture is represented by the people on this stage, who are scholars associate the with the Miller Center here at the university of virginia and whose studie of the presidency is broad, longterm in perspective, balanced, and of course expressed in words in the written word. The other culture is represented in this room in one sense by the presence of pat oliphant, so please, greet pat oliphant with a [ applause ] but even nmore so by the work o pat oliphant which youll see displayed on this screen. The culture that he represents is not sort of broad gauged and long range by highly specific, daily perspective over the course of more than 60 years as a cartoonist, producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons five days a week for the denver post for several years, the washington star for several years. And along the way pat ol fant became the first to work independently of any newspaper. Thats how popular his work was, and it was syndic
The United States is home to 5 of the wor 5 of the worlds population but 25 of the worlds prisoners. Every year we spend 80 billion to keep people locked up. Many of the folks in prison absolutely belong there. Our streets are safer thanks to the Brave Police Officers and dedicated prosecutors who put violent criminals behind bars. But over the last few decades weve also locked up more nonviolent offenders than ever before, for longer than ever before. Thats one of the real reasons our prison population is so high. In california, efforts to reform the criminal Justice System are already under way. One year ago, voters passed proposition 47. The landmark law reduces certain nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. It also gives felons convicted of those crimes an opportunity to have their sentence reduced. Is prop 47 working . Joining me to help answer that question are george gascon, San Francisco District Attorney. Brandon martin, Research Associate for Public Policy institute
The United States is home to 5 of the wor 5 of the worlds population but 25 of the worlds prisoners. Every year we spend 80 billion to keep people locked up. Many of the folks in prison absolutely belong there. Our streets are safer thanks to the Brave Police Officers and dedicated prosecutors who put violent criminals behind bars. But over the last few decades weve also locked up more nonviolent offenders than ever before, for longer than ever before. Thats one of the real reasons our prison population is so high. In california, efforts to reform the criminal Justice System are already under way. One year ago, voters passed proposition 47. The landmark law reduces certain nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. It also gives felons convicted of those crimes an opportunity to have their sentence reduced. Is prop 47 working . Joining me to help answer that question are george gascon, San Francisco District Attorney. Brandon martin, Research Associate for Public Policy institute
The United States is home to 5 of the wor 5 of the worlds population but 25 of the worlds prisoners. Every year we spend 80 billion to keep people locked up. Many of the folks in prison absolutely belong there. Our streets are safer thanks to the Brave Police Officers and dedicated prosecutors who put violent criminals behind bars. But over the last few decades weve also locked up more nonviolent offenders than ever before, for longer than ever before. Thats one of the real reasons our prison population is so high. In california, efforts to reform the criminal Justice System are already under way. One year ago, voters passed proposition 47. The landmark law reduces certain nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. It also gives felons convicted of those crimes an opportunity to have their sentence reduced. Is prop 47 working . Joining me to help answer that question are george gascon, San Francisco District Attorney. Brandon martin, Research Associate for Public Policy institute
The United States is home to 5 of the wor 5 of the worlds population but 25 of the worlds prisoners. Every year we spend 80 billion to keep people locked up. Many of the folks in prison absolutely belong there. Our streets are safer thanks to the Brave Police Officers and dedicated prosecutors who put violent criminals behind bars. But over the last few decades weve also locked up more nonviolent offenders than ever before, for longer than ever before. Thats one of the real reasons our prison population is so high. In california, efforts to reform the criminal Justice System are already under way. One year ago, voters passed proposition 47. The landmark law reduces certain nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. It also gives felons convicted of those crimes an opportunity to have their sentence reduced. Is prop 47 working . Joining me to help answer that question are george gascon, San Francisco District Attorney. Brandon martin, Research Associate for Public Policy institute