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Country in albany county, new york, in philadelphia, in atlanta, dallas, who are really beginning to break ranks with the broader d. A. s associations and call for various types of reforms for the drug laws and Drug Enforcement. I think that the one of the contexts thats so important here and people so often lose sight of is that this bill, 1506, is a small effort in the state of california and in the country of the United States to try to roll back the horrendous rates of incarceration that have happened in this country over the last 30 years. I mean, thats the context, right . The United Sta...

Youre obviously part of the california district attorneys association, as we were talking before the panel began, you shared with me that your organization has previously supported a measure that mark leno brought forward to lower the punishment for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana to a misdemeanor to an infraction. In this case your organization is essentially opposed to it. What do you say to mr. Adelman and mr. Gascon . I think one of the things i want to point out is that in terms of the changes currently taking place in californias criminal Justice System is that we have emba...

Who are the first people we should stop putting behind bars . Who is the people who really dont belong there . Its people whose only offense is possession of a substance to put in their own body, right . Thats the first group that needs to be let out. [applause] marty, let me ask you, youre obviously part of the california district attorneys association, as we were talking before the panel began, you shared with me that your organization has previously supported a measure that mark leno brought forward to lower the punishment for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana to a misdemeanor t...

Of less than an ounce of marijuana to a misdemeanor to an infraction. In this case your organization is essentially opposed to it. What do you say to mr. Adelman and mr. Gascon . I think one of the things i want to point out is that in terms of the changes currently taking place in californias criminal Justice System is that we have embarked on a very, very large experiment and thats called realignment. Prison population in california is going to approach by or sometime next year the federal mandate of 130,000. Weve already released some 50,000 individuals to serve their time locally, and thes...

God bless you if you worked there. I couldnt do that job for two days in a row. I can do it for an hour. An exfelon who is an extraordinary father. I can become an exdrunk who is an exceptional citizen. There is a transition necessary for a convicted, afflicted person the and it involves payback. I owe so i go. But ill tell the incarcerated, hey, if life was fair, you wouldnt be in here right now. You would have parents that cared and gave you the road map to success and they stuck around. They didnt hurt you on wait. They go yeah. If life was fair, you wouldnt have been busted when your partn...