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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120328:08:43:00

we ve been trying to be more vocal about our most vulnerable people, children, the people with mental illness. the mentally disabled. i think that s part of it. i think the other part is that we are being forced to be more sober about our sentencing policies because of the cost with 2.3 million people in jails with states having to remove money from education and public benefits and services and redirect to jails and prisons, i think there is an openness to talking about punishment in ways that we haven t talked about previously. i guess the final thing i would mention is i think we re being forced to be a little more honest. you talked about the death penalty. i think we re increasingly having to confront the fact that the death penalty isn t a question that should be answered by asking do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. i think we have to ask, do we deserve to kill? if our system is flawed or unequal with regard to class and

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150716:15:07:00

states would still have 1.7 million people behind bars and an incarceration rate four times that of many western european nations. mass incarceration can be ended. how do we go about doing this? is this a top-to-bottom change that is needed? it is top to bottom, particularly in our sentencing policies. we lead the world because we send more people to prison and we keep them there for longer periods of time. clearly there s much we can do with low-level drug offenders to avert them from prison in the first place. get them into treatment and community settings. people that commit serious crimes, the 18 or 19-year-olds running around with the wrong crowd, all of a sudden involved with an armed crime, he gets a 30-year sentence. by the time he s a 40-year-old, he s a different person than the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150428:07:05:00

so thank you for coming out and caring with your reporting. and as you see tonight, there is a totally other side to the story that you saw tonight. it s about black men stepping forward and owning their portion of this problem. now, our portion is relatively small, but it s important. and so we are asking the rest of the community to step forward for the first time in our history and own the rest of the problem. we re asking prosecutors to reexamine their sentencing policies. they re brutal towards us. worse than any country in the world. there is no other country that even comes close to the imprisonment of the folks in the country. we ask police to look at their policies, if they have cameras and there is firm control

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121118:16:00:15

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121118:16:00:15
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