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Storytime Lets Fathers Form Bonds From Behind Bars Across the country, inmates are distance-reading bedtime stories to their kids and finding their own paths to redemption. Credit...Lorenzo Gritti March 11, 2021 Greg Williams, 45, doesn’t remember the first book he read to his daughters in 2006, but he remembers picking the shortest book in a stack, hoping he could get to the end without crying on camera. He imagined his girls in their pajamas, tucked into bed, listening. As he turned each pa...

Credit...The Heads of State By Gene B. Sperling Mr. Sperling was the director of the National Economic Council under Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and is the author of “Economic Dignity.” Feb. 16, 2021 While controversial calls to “defund the police” have grabbed headlines, we urgently need to examine how we fund the police today. The increasing use of excessive fees, fines, and surcharges to fund parts of our criminal justice system is creating punitive debt traps for mill...

Why are they doing that? go, the city has also become threatening and dangerous, the property crime is the highest of any city in america. more than 5 dozen cars are smashed and robbed every day of the year but dont worry they have a plan to respond to this, it is not more cops or better enforcement of the law. that would be bigoted. the city has decided to ban words that suggest san francisco has a crime problem. people are not allowed to talk about crime maybe they will not notice crime exists...

Of his or her life, then if they already have that right, does it then become unconstitutional if they add financial conditions on it? in other words, they dont have to allow anyone the right to vote for the rest of their lives. what does it matter if florida says you can vote, you just have to pay fines and court fees before you do. on the other hand, there is a strong argument that thats really a poll tax by another name. lets call it what it is. >> if that gets to go through, doesnt it open t...

Leaders have a plan to respond to this and of course, its not more cops are better are better enforcement of the law. that would be bigoted. instead, the city of san francisco has decided to ban words that suggest san francisco has a crime problem. people arent allowed to talk about crime. maybe they wont notice crime exists. thats the thinking. last month, the citys board of supervisors decreed there will be no more convicted felons in san francisco. going forward, ex-cons are to be cold, cold,...

Leaders have a plan to respond to this, and of course, its not more cops or better enforcement of the law. that would be bigoted. instead, the city of san francisco has decided to ban words that suggest san francisco has a crime problem. people arent allowed to talk about crime.ugri maybe they wont notice crime exists. thats the thinking. last month, the citys board of supervisors decreed there will be no more convicted felons in san francisco.oa going forward, ex-cons are to be called, quote, j...

Ive got to say it for you, you are very humble. kamala harris the latest 2020 democrat to team up with alexandria ocasio cortez, the pair introducing the housing act that would make it easier for ex-cons to get government housing. are these far left proposals and you have seen a lot of less about reform and more about each candidate trying to prove how progressive they can be? here to debate is former director of social justice for bernie sanders 2016 campaign and indiana congressman david mcint...

Presidential candidates, first bernie signed up for this, joe biden, very far left when he adopted cortezs environmental policies and kamala harris offering essentially to sign up former prisoners for welfare rather than trying to get them a job so they can in their own house and make it on their own. >> the far left doesnt really like prosecutors. does kamala need something like this to make her a better candidate? >> its not about kamala harris, it is about trying to right the wrong of the cri...

Housing, for those who would be reentered into society. the private sector to hire us, and sometimes we are the best workers because we now have a different work ethic then we had to cause us to be incarcerated. seeing all that is very important. i think the president for that. >> julie: that is such a great point. that is a different lens that you see life through. it almost sometimes takes a moment where you get pushed back and life, whether you are unemployed, you get fired from a job, you ta...

Maybe you want to vote for bernie sanders. the only ones that want this are defense attorneys. they are going to love having ex-cons on juries. it is automatic not guilty. any time a police officer goes to testify on the stand, i dont think so. any time anybody offers any sort of physical evidence, that was planted. they are biassed against law enforcement. they are biassed against prosecutors. prosecutors are the ones that put them behind the bars. they are going to be fair? >> if you have a re...