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Have the right prescribing guidelines all over the country. now we've changed it. now there are limits. i believe we're going to see better results. it's going to take time to begin to see them. >> to the question of emergency funding, though -- >> well, we're spending almost a billion on it right now. and why do we have a rainy day fund? i'll tell you why, because we don't want to be in the middle of a fiscal year and having to start chopping programs. i have that as a reserve. at money, that $2 billion is gone in the snap of a finger. then i've got to go back and cut the schools in the middl...

Gone in the snap of a finger. then i've got to go back and cut the schools in the middle of the fiscal year or i have to cut these drug programs because we're going to have a balanced budget. we're up 460,000 jobs in ohio. and people have worked, they're less likely to be on drugs. when people don't have work, when people are depressed, they don't have faith or hope, not everybody, but that's where many go. tapping more into that. i think we're in a good position now and we'll stay aggress ib on this issue. i appreciate your service, too in east liverpool. [ applause ] >> this is joseph he run...

>> i got four years state prison even though and in spite of the newly adapted proposition 36, where we're supposed to be able to go to drug programs if we have a drug problem, and i do have one. >> 50-year-old habitual drug offender kimberly jean maybe has a difficult time being treated like an inmate. >> we're threatened for everything. we're threatened. to sit for count. we're threatened to get in our bunks. we're threatened to get things out of our hair that may just make us feel a little bit more feminine. but every year that i come to a county jail i am defeminized more. >> 46-year-old i...

Result of unfair sentencing practices. so he's making changes. a major change in the way prison sentences will be handed down, ordered by the nation's top law enforcement officer. >> it was an outsized, unnecessarily large prison population, we need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, to deter and to rehabilitate but not merely to warehouse and to forget. >> reporter: attorney general eric holder announced the justice department will stop seeking mandatory minimum sentences for offenders accused of low-level, non-violent drug crimes like a small-time drug courier. instead they'll a...

Newly adapted proposition 36, where we're supposed to be able to go to drug programs if we have a drug problem, and i do have one. >> 50-year-old habitual drug offender kimberly jean maybe has a difficult time being treated like an inmate. >> we're threatened for everything. we're threatened. to sit for count. we're threatened to get in our bunks. we're threatened to get things out of our hair that may just make us feel a little bit more feminine. but every year that i come to a county jail i am defeminized more. >> 46-year-old inmate and mother of three children denise branagh committed her f...