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The community. clearly were not doing our jobs. either weve got to put them away or find a way to rehabilitate them and not just let them run wild. >> larry: vernell, are you optimistic or pessimistic? >> over 800 previously incarcerated people i recruited, a young lady living in her car with her infant child in east oakland. three years after we enrolled her in college, she was just accepted as she graduated with her aa degree this june. now accepted, and starting in august at cal berkeley. so ...

I, of course, was there. i met a kid didnt do hardly anything. when i left, he said, dog, ill take it from here. instead of learning how to shoot the lock off, you learn how to pick it. its a training field for felons. >> larry: ver nell -- vernell, you agree with that, they come out smarter criminals? >> i think that it depends what you do with them while inside. thats why i say youll find research has clearly identified that when you are exposing them to a cognitive behavioral model that youre...