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Back. >> melissa, we have to get through expanding and getting more allies. we won't get more allies to our arguments with the same arguments. >> i got it. >> but i do believe we will grow allies when you start telling folks you're going to pay for this in the neighborhood, crime will go up if you have a child that didn't have appropriate access to meals. we have to say it in very plain ways. do you want to pay for more prisons? do you want more customers for your markets when we're having a conversation with business leaders? >> i so appreciate you labeled it that way, that we have to create ...

Barringing -- including puck housing assistance. -- reverend vivian nixon, excess tiv director, and cofounder of the ode indication from the inside-out coalition. let me start here. if you had to define them, what are the main barriers to employment that ex-offend irs face. so we need to ban the box.

No mercy or justice for marissa alexander or her children. today they face the first of many motherless mother's days, because when mothers go to prison, they aren't the only ones that are punished. marissa alexander joins 65,600 women in federal and state custody who are mothers of 147,400 minor children. one of those women that gave birth in prison is here with me today. tina reynolds, advocates on behalf of incarcerated women as co-founder and cochair of women on the rise, telling her story. also a lecturer at new york college. and also here, reverend vivian nixon, executive director of col...