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Under this legislation, states are incentivized to put in place laws to clearly recognize that minors engaged in prostitution are not criminal bus victims who need to be protected from further trauma. My own state of North Carolina is one of a handful of states that has passed similar legislation explicitly recognizing that children involved in prostitution are victims in a modern day form of slavery. H. R. 3610 is an important step toward ensuring this becomes true nationwide. The average age f...

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And let us know what you think of the programs youre watching. Calls youre watching. Call set to zero to 663400 or email us at comments at cspan. Org. Join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. The House Judiciary Committee Overcriminalization Task force recently debated whether to reform the prosecution and sentencing of criminals and specifically focused on whether or not to eliminate or reduce mandatory minimum sentences in certain cases. Witnesses included former...

I think it really depends upon the situation as it evolves and that is why i think that we have to look at the conditions and provide our best advice on what it is that we need to sustain and what we need to have an embassybased approach in order to continue and accomplish our objectives. I appreciate both of your testimony you have both said makes a lot of and, how we could possibly make the announcement from the administration of exactly how many people are going to be at that embassy where th...

For some reason we seem to think that for admin seg, someone will sell 23 hours a day. Who defines that . Its probably some court case that mandates that and why isnt it 20 hours a day or 18 hours a day. They work their way down to 10. Thats one thing we will be doing. Its been automatic that someone on death row will stay in administrative segregation until they are put to death. Some are found innocent and released and we will change our policy on that and giving them the opportunity to get ou...

I might ask anybody in this audience to stand up if they feel like they would like to live next to someone thats been released directly from segregation into the street and im pretty sure people are going to stay in their chairs. What we were able to do, in 2012 we released 140 directly into the street. In 2014 we released two so far. And the other area i was challenged by the governor was take a look at everyone else in administrative segregation and see if you can determine the numbers of thos...