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Letting people out of prison is one of the fastest ways we know, from long experience, to make crime rates rise so you can see where we would be nervous about it, no? >> i can understand that. some of of the things we used s scare tactics but the truth of the matter is, this followed conservative states like texas, like georgia, where we have seen governor. actually reform the system by empowering these individuals to be productive citizens once they get out by partnering with nonprofits, faith groups, restoring the families, they were not able to only closed prisons but they were actually abl...

Releases. so, if, there it is right there. if the releases had nothing to do with the first step act, i'm confused why there is a press release saying that they are the result of the person act. we will let me clarify again. this law currently exist. under current law, individuals are able to earn good time off is their model prisoners. the first step act clarified dialogue. there was some confusion on jewel person owns 37 days versus 54 days so what we're talking about is on average people getting 54 days early but that was current law. so, what we want to do is create an environment where pe...

Treated much less differently in colorado, for instance, after voters legalized marijuana, the d.a.'s dropped all the pending pot charges they had against people. even though, because it was illegal when it was passed, they still could have gone forward with that, but it's still costing people their lives. even people who aren't in prison for drugs are affected by it, let's say that you're in prison for burglary. and then you get paroled, if you show up and take a drug test and you test positive for marijuana, you're going right back into prison. so -- >> you're using tax resources on someone ...

Resources on that? >> right. and even people who aren't in that situation, you know, because -- they might not be able to get a job because of this, i mean, they might get fired from their job. there are all kinds of repercussions that continue to hit people. nearly a million people a year are still arrested to this day for marijuana. now, the statistics are that marijuana selling has increased 10 to 15% the last several years, with arrests flat, the intensity of the arrests is going down, that's a small comfort to these nearly 1 million people whose lives are being disrupted by these arrests....