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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 federal prison population . I think that we absolutely will. If you look statistically at the profi...

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 dont think theres as much disagreement as it may look at first. For the people who will revus to ava...

Senatorgrassley whitehouse. Whitehouse let me thank you for your chairmanship of this process. You brought very distinctive use of your own, and youve facilitated all of us coming together in making this happen. I also want to mention, although he is not here today, the graham brought Magic Springs is a military prosecutor. Thanks to both of them. The department of justice as we work through complicated issues. Anator feinstein asked question about making sure when , the unitedas made states attorneys would not let the balls fall through the cracks and ignore the responsibilities. Wewant to ma...

Organizations efforts have contributed. I think that helps contribute tremendously to these results that i mentioned earlier. Thank you for your contributions to our efforts. I want to use the remaining time to say, as i travel from houston ustin to senator leo to san antonio to dallas most recently. Whether they are experts in this area or not, they tell me that formerroblems that many inmates have they have problems getting jobs because they have a criminal record. Even if you eliminate the box, employersve proposed, will still get a criminal background check. Whether they put it on their ap...

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