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Inmate that is would have been going to the state system and now theyre the county jails problem. >> the law created new challenges for the county by requiring them to house convicted felons, who, in the past, would have gone to prison. with many sentenced to at least a decade, they could be more likely to cause problems. but the law also came with significant funding for a broad range of job training and rehabilitation programs to help inmates stay out of jail and prison. theyre administered fo...

I say wait a minute. i was here. i was in the same colored shirt as you was. and now i know what it takes to live a better life. when i was locked up here, there was no counselor for me to communicate with. there was no program in place at that time. ab 109, transrehabilitation. >> yeah, this is for re-entry. im looking to get mr. gregs sent up to gate 8. id appreciate it. >> sure. >> rodriguez gregs was convicted a week earlier. he was sentenced to one year and will serve his time here. >> th...

What they did was take the responsibility for thousands of inmate that is would have been going to the state system and now theyre the county jails problem. >> the law created new challenges for the county by requiring them to house convicted felons, who, in the past, would have gone to prison. with many sentenced to at least a decade, they could be more likely to cause problems. but the law also came with significant funding for a broad range of job training and rehabilitation programs to help ...

They said you dont understand, you dont understand what im going through. i say wait a minute. i was here. i was in the same colored shirt as you was. and now i know what it takes to live a better life. when i was lock eed up here there was no counselor for me to communicate with. there was no program in place at that time. ab 109, transrehabilitation. >> yeah, this is for re-entry. im looking to get mr. gregs sent up to gate 8. id appreciate it. >> sure. >> rodriguez gregs was convicted a wee...

Initiative? >> thats correct. just to remind people, this has been a big priority of this administration to try to change the way the war on drugs works. fairer, shorter sentences, more rehab and assistance for when people come out of prison, more help on re-entry. thats what the president is talking about now. big news this morning, as we change screens, ban the box. the president announcing today this morning that hes basically going to delay when the federal government looks at peoples crimin...

Talk to me a little bit about the work you all have been doing in this city for that. >> we kind of focused a lot on re-entry in the city of newark. earlier you talked about hotspots but were not just doing hotspots in terms of crime, were doing that in terms of following prisoners as they come back to their families to figure out where theyre going, what theyre doing, services and resources that they have. we have a project called hope where we transition them into jobs and begin to try to help...

War on drugs in many years. the numbers dont suggest any drastic difference in the approach when you say someone who is on cocaine or methamphetamine, you say instead of a roughly 11 years you get roughly nine. so that change isnt going to change their lives. the step if a policy perspective shows we are the first time arguing and going in a different direction. >> 6,000 sounds like a huge number. in fact, it is actually not in the sense that many thousands of americans are getting out of jail o...

Months got "no" as an answer because he will to also indicate that he was a felon. so many cases, when you cant get that job, some of these people who may have good intentions when they get out, resort to a life of crime again to pay their bills, to make ends meet, and then we see the cycle again. >> well, that certainly can be the case from time to time. but i think that it also indicates that as a criminal justice system, as a community, as a country, we need to do a better job of welcoming pe...

Off for than entire year to allow the system to prepare for this release. so for the past year, federal prosecutors, federal public defenders and courts have been processing motions and applications from prisoners. they have been working the prisoners and the federal bureau of prisons have been working together to prepare for re-entry, and probation officers have been preparing to receive these people back into the community and begin the court-ordered supervision that each and every one of them...

Week on hbo. >> it was a strong political incentive i think to continually be tough on drugs. the thing just kept on getting ratcheted up. we think its somehow normal for a black youth or latino youth to be going through the system in this way. its not normal. >> and the focus on criminal justice reform has been evident across the administration. just hours before the president called our nations incarceration practices un-american, attorney general loretta lynch delivered a substantive address ...