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While. >> so i knew him when he first came here. he was a young kid that liked to raise hell in jail. i think from the beginning, i think he was just doomed to go down this path that wasnt going to lead anywhere positive. and its unfortunate that this was the answer that the state had for, you know, his earl i incarceration. >> why would you bet on him to be the first person to do a victim/offender dialogue in the state of alaska? >> what i have to trust is terrias opinion. she said, i want to d...

Its too bad he didnt know how to do that before he came to prison. >> yeah. >> because he probably wouldnt be here. a crime brought you here, but what you do here matters because thats whats going to keep you out of here. i try to remember that every day when i come to owork. its what im going to do with them now. >> the scidivism rate in alaska can what youre doing make that --? >> were sending people back to environments that were shattered before they came to prison. they havent gotten any be...

Thanks for having me here. appreciate you. >> thanks for coming. >> how do you feel about the fact this is the first victim/offender dialogue ever to happen with adults locked up in alaska? >> its great. its great that theyre doing this. and it shows that the department of corrections here is pretty open and willing to do something new and more effective. >> when it goes really well, what happens? >> theres healing, you know, people are lighter. the thing with crime is it creates a lot of shame,...

August 17th, 2015, for second-degree murder and robbery and that was on my sons birthday. he would have been 24. >> this is the first victim/offender dialogue ever in alaska for adults behind bars. why was this so important for you to push forward and be the first one to do this? >> ive been really aggressive with this issue. i basically have gone in and said, look, ive experienced horrible tragedy in my life. an individual caused that tragedy. now i want to have this conversation because theres...

Held the paper for a long time. i couldnt stop looking at it, because i thought mine has got to be different. and i kept looking at it, and at the bottom it said that those charges came with life. ainsley: judge gibbons, you said, made you sound like you were "el chapo." >> oh, yes. [laughter] ainsley: and you realized that the laws were nonnegotiable. youre a first-time, nonviolent offender, and you could go away for life. so is that day in court she said life plus 25 years and no the parole. >...

Justice system, and ive seen lives devastated by violence. we like to imagine that after the verdict, the story is over, the victim and the offender are never meant to meet again. but for some, the only way to move forward is to come face to face with the person who shattered their lives. im here in alaska, and theyve got so much just untouched, unspoiled, beauty. but they also have a really ugly problem up here with a drug epidemic. theres a real cycle of addiction, crime, incarceration, releas...

Back off because i dont want to look weak but i kind of should apologize. theres certain ones youre never going to get them to apologize. im not advocating for other comedians to be like me. >> heres the thing. hes on satellite radio right now. howard makes fun of everybody. hes jewish. he makes fun of jews. he makes fun of his hair, long nose, his personal body parts. hes an equal opportunity offender and not one to apologize. i want to talk about your shoebecause you explore topics like this o...

About me or i saw someone talking about him on television and i know this guy, and usually you have to exhibit some kind of remorse if youre going to get a presidential pardon and conrad black has said im innocent from day one. theres no remorse and thats not required from donald trump. >> or a person representative of a group of people, the low-level drug offender that are particularly popular with his base and weve seen a couple of those. this also isnt that. >> sometimes pardons is thank-you ...

Found someone. they can develop a relationship with someone they can trust the offender of for months will be very good at building that kind of trust so the victims actually even if they identify that this is a scam they will never not this sorry lose their trust in. the financial losses are often compounded by emotional distress it may be easy for some to ridicule those who transfer thousands of euros from their bank account to a perfect stranger but cyber crime is by no means confined to men ...

Before it damages and kills nerve cells. there are special immune cells in the brain called micro gear that hunt down and destroy whatever does not belong there and could do it hum. bacteria for example or damaged or dead neurons. find something out of kilter they respond immediately. their activated migrate towards the offender and devour it. for the most part microbe liers cells provide the brain with excellent protection but do they also consume and destroy plaques. christiane hearts and sami...