Paul. And that is on the Violent Crime side, we tend to have a lower crime rate than a lot of other states while at the same time keeping our incarceration rate lower by using more probation and using more treatment options. So thats why im a fan of the work thats been done here. And my first question is really along those lines of drug courts. Ive led some. Efforts here on drug courts and getting funding for drug courts carrying on the work of many that came before me, including ted kennedy and jim ram stead over on the house side. When we look at what this bill might save, we know that drug courts save money. And we know that getting some of the nonviolent offenders out of the prisons will save money or reducing their sentences. Do you think we could use some of this money to pay for things like drug courts ms. Yates, do you think that will be helpful as we look at how we are going to make up for the fact that we are going to be bringing people out of prison. But they not only need R
Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the federal prison population . I think that we absolutely will. If you look statistically at the profile of drug defendants currently in the bureau of prisons right now, youll see that there are a number of low level nonviolent drug defendants. For example, less than 1 of the defendants in federal prison actually had violence or threatsover violence in connection with their drug offense. Only 16 of them had a weapon. Half of them had little or no criminal history at all and only 7 of them are lead
Forward, but also to people who were convicted and sentenced under old laws. Inmate sentences under the old mandatory minimums can ask a judge to sentence them in accordance with the new mandatory minimums. But a prosecutor gets to weigh in also. And the inmate will only get a lower sentence if the judge agrees it is appropriate after the judge has considered factors like the inmates danger to the community. But others have raised concerns about the department of justice going to stand idly by and let dangerous criminals walk. So this is my question, kind of a statement. I hope that i have your commitment that the department of justice will review each of these resentencing on a casebycase basis and that the determination on these resentencings will be made by local u. S. Attorney offices. Senator, we are anything but idle at the department of justice. You have our commitment that we will carry out the Retroactive Application of the provisions of this proposal in a thoughtful manner, o
Senatorgrassley whitehouse. Whitehouse let me thank you for your chairmanship of this process. You brought very distinctive use of your own, and youve facilitated all of us coming together in making this happen. I also want to mention, although he is not here today, the graham brought Magic Springs is a military prosecutor. Thanks to both of them. The department of justice as we work through complicated issues. Anator feinstein asked question about making sure when , the unitedas made states attorneys would not let the balls fall through the cracks and ignore the responsibilities. Wewant to make sure that sure her we are very keenly aware that takes place. We are more confident that she is that something would be developed to put into place. I delighted to work with her and with you to make sure that asething that codifies that long as it is not creating unnecessary bureaucracy and delay becomes a part of this bill. We look forward to working with you to nail that last piece down. Areg
Yesterday and overnight warming up to rain. It could turn into snow i hate to tell you by the end of the day. Sorry. You should have waited. Thats why you talk to this lady. Brian you get a wind doi of opportunity to wash your car. Tia it means he didnt listen to your forecast yesterday. Brian i knew it would be nice for the day. Thats all you get. A half day of a clean car. Thats it. Tia he wasted 20 bucks. Samantha i waited for a free car wash last night, and it never rained on top of my car. There was only like some light rain, and didnt get a lick of that salt off. So, you know, maybe today theres some hope for those that waited. Lets take a look at what we got going on out there. It is cloudy all across northeast ohio. Its also very windy out there, and you can see that we still have a few patchy, light showers ashtabula, youngstown and to the south between rivena and canton with light rain pop upping here. Back to the west we have light rain from sandusky back into fremont. This