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Year into indefinite detention people are willing to confess to anything in order to get there case moved into the court system. You see people get to court and want to repudiate their confession. Of course, what does the court turned around and do . You cant repudiate. Repudiate. I think that it is true that we didnt we do tend to assume that people detained are guilty. If you look at the number, in fact, it is not actually true. There is an earlier stage in which they accept the case. They used to give us those numbers in the annual report they have stopped doing it for whatever reason, but ...

A captive audience. You can work with them in so many different ways to make sure that you do more and get that recidivism rate down to the 20 percent where taxpayers are no longer paying 30 some thought to 530 some odd thousand dollars a year to house these people. It is a win win for everyone involved. The notion of talking about reentry and figuring out Practical Solutions is something we need to continue to dialogue as we go forward. Thank you for that. We have time for two really good and short questions. [applauding] [inaudible question] and if you look at the issue of wrongful convictio...

What is the proudest moment of your career so far . Guest wow. I dont mean to sound snarky or snippy here, but i hope it is yet to come. I feel very fortunate in just a few days well start our 12th season on pbs. Im now on 15 years in public radio. I feel very blessed at start of this year to do all weve done so far. I hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to i hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to pick something it would be that i am still in here and so many people that against me in so much of my life. When i started on npr some years ago i remember the complaint ...

[inaudible conversations] finish good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im roger pilon the director for constitutional studies and your host for this event. I want also to welcome our cspan audience and those of us those who are looking at the event on cato Live Streaming and later through the archives. Were here to discuss religious liberty as it may or may not be exercised in the context of the modern Business Corporation pursuant to both statutory and constitutional law. More immediately, were here also to mark the publication of a new book on that subject from palgrave religious li...

Introducing choice and vouchers and expanding Charter Schools again, we had to fight with the tradition of public schools. It was very hard and difficult at the time to convince my colleagues in the carcass, the black caucus that it did not matter where it was perceived that this will movement you know the thing i used to tell my colleagues was it doesnt matter. Show an i can honestly say today we are getting much much more many more of our colleagues in louisiana understand that this is not about writing a check, but it is about who is benefiting. I really would like to say one other thing to...