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Bother to complain. deep equity orders teachers and we are quoting now, to explicitly reject and resist any parents who disagree with it. got it? california has the highest taxes in the united states. but, not clear where the money is going. schools in the state of california are failing. the power is often out. parts of the state are on fire. there arent shelters for the homeless and now there isnt space for felons in california state prison. thats one of the reasons the state law called prop 4...

To complain. deep equity orders teachers and we are quoting now, to explicitly reject and resist any parents who disagree with it. got it? california has the highest taxes in the united states. but, not clear where the money is going. schools in the state of california are failing. the power is often out. parts of the state are on fire. there arent shelters for the homeless and now there isnt space for felons in california state prison. thats one of the reasons the state law called prop 47 got p...

Society that could only benefit from readers having a better understanding of it. and we felt like the place to get that understanding was to go to people whove experienced it firsthand. >> i want to just make a reference to what we were just watching. maybe theres pictures of it. the women who have been released because you focus on -- in an area of this special reporting about how the prison system in america wasnt really designed with women in mind. i want to read a quote that is from the art...

Sent out this internal memo to his prosecutors, laying out new guidelines that many criminal justice experts have called groundbreaking. >> and those guidelines are based on science rather than intuition. >> reporter: the new guidelines are designed to reduce the prison population and bring fairness to sentencing. >> we have a policy that you dont ask for more than six months for a technical violation of probation or parole absent extraordinary circumstances. and often our position will be dont ...

On the criminal justice debate that the president, or the argument that the president makes that he tries to have a leg to stand on with the african-american community thats saying he alone has been the only one to deliver this kind of meaningful justice or criminal justice reform. put that in its proper context of what we need to do as a country on the issue of criminal justice reform and how the president actually rates on that issue. >> yeah, you know, eamon, reducing the prison population, p...

I spoke with a man named lewis reid. hes the national director of cut 50, which is an organization thats aimed at trying to have the prison population by half. and he said -- reiterated that very point that its beyond that. but lets hear in his own words what he has to say. >> ultimately, like my grandma used to say, people dont care how much you know until they know how much you care. this was an issue that people in washington, not politics, not politicians, not politics, but people in washing...

Naturally. for a couple of years hes been pushing criminal justice reforms and making fellows for people on the right and left. president trump coming here, there is some unfortunate timing given the week he had in terms of how folks, black people in particular responding to his lynching comment. here on this campus, for those whos been pushing reforms and working across the isle, this is a victory, a victory thats beyond partisan politics that people have been incarcerated unfairly. i spoke wit...

Cushyest prisons. its far from the hollywood stars hollywood hills home, but close enough for her husband actor william h. macy to visit. 35 miles outside of san francisco, dublin has more than 1200 female inmates. like the rest of the prison population, huffman will wear a khaki uniform and wake up by 5 in the morning. she can buy some personal items and food at the commissary, and there is a wellness program that includes arts and crafts and team sports. the small screen star who shot the famo...

Prison. no doubt shes waking up and counting down the days. this is a woman who has expressed regret, remorse. prosecutors want her to serve an even longer term. the judge said with this shell have paid her dues. so heres a look at what that time will look like. actress felicity huffman, now 77806-112 inmate reported this week to prison in dublin, california. a lock-up once dubbed by forbes as one of americas ten cushiest prisons. its far from the hollywood stars hollywood hills home, but close ...

Punished. >> they are often the kinds of kids that are called super predatori predato predators. no conscience, no empathy. we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel. >> tens of thousands of them born out of wedlock without parents, without supervision, without any structure, without any conscience developing. >> we must take back the streets. >> take back the streets. super predators, a crime had been up in many places. so is this backlash which inclu...