I say that without any hesitation. So you better be good today. All right. It is great to call you chairman. We have called you many titles before. Its great to have chairman. You have called me many fames before. Be honest. That may be true. Go ahead dr. Rose. I am steve rose, president of Pass Aic County Community College. Our main campus is in patterson, New Jersey, the third largest city in our state. I have been president since 1996 and have been at the college since 1987. When i arrived we had 2,000 students a year. Turntly we serve over 11,000. This growth is fairly typical of Community Colleges during this time span. 80 of our students are minority with many having english as their second language. Maniel enrolled to seek an Associates Degree. Others come seeking our Work Force Development programs in Health Care and technology fields. The topic of this hearing, this is why Community Colleges were created. Pccc, like most Community College is an open Admission Institution servi
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The law. Not. No man in above the law. What we see on most tv shows is not reality or just the System Isnt what you think it is rolling Stone Magazine considers Wayne Kramer of the m. C. 5. 1 of the top 100. 00 greatest guitarist of all time he battled drug addiction. In 1975, went to prison for 2 years for selling cocaine. He sends provided guitars and taught music to inmates at over 50 correctional institution throughout the united states. People think that, you know, you have a right to a Trial And Everybody goes to trial and theres the good prosecutor and, and the Defense Attorney and they battle it out. That is the way it works. The way it works is the Prosecutor Stack up, the charges you have for you to plead guilty to a lesser charge to keep from doing life or double life or triple life. People dont get trials. What they get is a deal. People suggest that anywhere between, you know, 3 or 10 and 15 percent people behind bars could be innocent of the crime which they were charged.
Attorney and they battle it out. That is the way it works. The way it works is the Prosecutor Stack up the charges on you and force you to plead guilty to a lesser charge to keep from doing life or double life or triple life. People dont get trials. What they get is a deal. People suggest that anywhere between, you know, 3 or 10 and 15 percent people behind bars could be innocent of the crime which they were charged. Michelle alexander is a civil rights lawyer. Stanford Law Professor and the author of the new jim crow, one of the most highly acclaimed american criminal Justice System. The reality is that thousands of people, every year in the united states, wind up pleading guilty to crimes. They may not have committed because theyre either railroaded by police officers who get them false Information Or Course confessions or because they are afraid of facing harsh mandatory minimum sentences and believes that you know, the best chance to just take a pleat every. Yeah. You dont know any