East bay. Six residents in heyward have died. Thats the highest death toll at a local nursing home since the pandemic began. A total of 53 other residents and staffers have tested positive. Theyre tracking suspeced and confirmed cases of covid 19 at Long Term Care facilities throughout the county. We had one of our highest death rates in the state so far. 68 individuals that passed away, our hearts go out to all of them. A tragic 24 hours in california. A spike in deaths bring the states total number to 442. The worst is yet to come in San Francisco. The mayor says dont get comfortable because our numbers are not off the charts right now. This as the city rolls out new Mental Health resources for first responders. Drive through testing began today in vallejo. The testing is for symptomatic first responders, health care and essential Service Workers who work or live in solano county. Thanks for joining us. Now to a covid 19 survivors story. You may be one of those people still understat
Fellowship former president of the prison fellowship when he was there he liked to talk about the fact that today we lock people up because we are mad at them when we should be reserving prison and jail space for people who we are afraid of. There are obviously people who have committed crimes and who are dangerous enough that they need to be kept away from rest of society. They built the prisons and the prosecutors build them up. I have to say one thing in trying to get real Prison Reform through and we have done most of our work at the state level as im sure doug knows, we have had Great Success working with democrats, republicans conservatives and liberals than with governors who are concerned about two things. One, the way their systems are working or not working in the cost of the systems in many states across the prison system is greater than the cost of a Public Education system and they both work just about as well but maybe a reallocation of resources might be in order. I have
Your specific term. I just want to say this, that the word institutionalization, for these programs, is not one that weve started talking about as a community, say, in the last six months. Under the leadership of the agac, the attorney generals advisory committee, our first chairman was todd jones who had been a former u. S. Attorney in the late 1990s. He came back he said he is a recidivist came back as u. S. Attorney again starting in 2008. Todd preached from day one in institutionalization. Paul did as well, Loretta Lynch as well. Lanny wanted to respond though. I was just going to give an answer to the judges question, one example that my colleagues can talk about what theyre doing in their districts. But the attorney general was mindful of it, so one of the privileges when you are the head of the Criminal Division is you work with the u. S. Sentencing commission and we did do that. We also are able to work with the attorney general and with your colleagues in the u. S. Attorneys o
We have with us, moving from the left to the right geographically otherwise erhaps [laughter] lurk, the attorney maryland, the former states attorney in Montgomery County, former president of the National Association of attorney generals. Next to him is jeff. Assistant for Camara Harris of california. Jeff oversees criminal law as a special assistant in california. Next to jeff is cyrus vance, the District Attorney. Those of us in manhattan know him well. Next to him as anthony, the commissioner of the Baltimore Police department. Has joined us today. Finally, to my immediate left we have david keene who is a Founding Member. Former president of the National Association. Former chair of the American Conservative Union and a board member of the constitution project. Mornings next events will proceed is as follows. Each member of the panel will have a view minutes to discuss issues of key importance to them and then will move through some significant things. Attribute personal that is re
Was born and raised in new orleans. I am the second youngest u. S. Attorney fry now in our country and happen to have lost a brother to street violence in new orleans. We are using the student pledge against gun violence where we are going to all 450 schools on one day, october 15 of 28. Were simply asking the young people to pledge not to bring a gun to school. Weaponomise not to use a and promised to use the influence with family and friends to ensure those individuals to not use a weapon to resolve a fight or dispute. Since 1996. Around over 10 million have used this and taken the pledge. I think ultimately on that day send a veryd powerful message that our young people are taking a stand against violence in the community and schools. The second piece of the work in terms of prevention and intervention really is and how shoot. Have a prevention strategy built off of professor kennedys work. It is a fantastic initiative. It has been implemented in various cities across the country. W