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Guest we are and it is a title we should wear shamefully. We have 5 of the worlds population, but 25 of the world prison population, 2. 3 Million People incarcerated. We spend over 50 billion a year on corrections and when it comes to the Racial Disparities that our system there are more africanamericans under correctional supervision today than there were slaves at the height of slavery in 1850. Host how did we get there . Guest its all really goes back to the war on drugs in many respects, whi...

Inefficient system. There were, i think, a couple of months ago somebody looked at the Baltimore City jail and found that there were over 100 people there who were incarcerated for awaiting trial because they couldnt make bond of 100. The money bail system discriminates against poor people. It fails to take into account the most important criteria, the most important things we want to know when thinking about deta detaining somebody before trial, is the person likely to show up for trial, number...

As those two highprofile efforts play out in two of the nations most populaced states, were asking our viewers to weigh in. Should the minimum wage be raised to 15 an hour . If your answer is yes, should it be done on a statebystate basis or as a federal increase . Special lines this morning on the washington journal, minimum wage earners can call in at 2027488000. Business owners, the number is 2027488001. All others can call in this morning at 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on socia...

There was no permissiono be asked. It had been done by my predecessors. It was permitted. If you get indietcted, will you drop out . Im not even answering that question. It will not ppen. Reporter when talking about voting recording, the conversation did get a little heated. Listen. No, i did not oppose the bailout or the support of the Automobile Industry no, i do not support vigilante. That is an unfair statement. Madame secretary, i will match my record against yours any day of the week. Repo...

Did you hear it. I said i heard nothing. Sue said i have roofus a at my house. Yes. Roofus the weather dog, and roofus the wonder dog, yes, was zooming all over the place this morning. The it looks like, we have a mild morning, to get us started. The we have 62 degrees. Northerly breeze at 6 miles an hour 75 percent relative humidity. Lets start with temperatures elsewhere so you know how mild it is. Fortyeight mount pocono. Sixtytwo in the city. Fiftysix pottstown. Sixtytwo in our normal chilly...

Paul. And that is on the Violent Crime side, we tend to have a lower crime rate than a lot of other states while at the same time keeping our incarceration rate lower by using more probation and using more treatment options. So thats why im a fan of the work thats been done here. And my first question is really along those lines of drug courts. Ive led some. Efforts here on drug courts and getting funding for drug courts carrying on the work of many that came before me, including ted kennedy and...

Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the...

I would point out that in a number of these states, for example, georgia North Carolina experienced after the implementation of their Reentry Program something modelled after the corrections act, they saw a 19. 3 reduction in recidivism. Other states, 10 in georgia, 9. 4 , right right. I think rather than take this as a matter of faith or perhaps expressing our hopes and best wishes, we actually have some real results we can point to that demonstrate the workability of some of these programs. I ...

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Degrees. So a chill is in the air but with clear skies were going to see a quick warmup. 50s by 9 00, in fact, close to 60 and then upper 60s at lunch time and climbing. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood and show you what to expect when im back. Right now Jessica Boyington has election day traffic. Jessica. No traffic yet because of election day but were on the vine street expressway looking from our cameras on the vine at eighth street that are turned around to vine stre...