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Continuing to review the document and make sure that weve got it correct. The fact that it went to the Department Without the statement its a process until the last day that we sign a final report. It came up in the reason you dont put draft report out because they are subject to interpretation and they are not final and shortly after the draft came up here it was reported in the press but heres proof that somebody in the va changed it. That is not proof that just means you dont understand the process and i can show six days before the initial draft is released we were having discussions inter...

Scope a future project to go out and verify that, in fact, everything is working according to the plan. Do not want to make recommendations that just sit on the shelf. No. We follow up on a quarterly basis. I share your enthusiasm for the new secretary, and i believe he is committed to both changing the attitude of the va and making these specific reforms. Do you think the bill that we just passed, the compromise bill, will be useful in addressing some of these 24 recommendations . Im afraid im not totally versed on the bill. I know there have been a number of legislative changes made in order...

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...

Perspective on the problem in california are state prison population skyrocketed about 750 from 20,000 prisoners in the 1970s from 1975 to over 172,000 by 2006 and that is what led us to much of the prison litigation some of which is still ongoing today. That by court order requires a state of california to reduce its prison population and that is what leads us to what the economist has described as probably one of the most significant experiments in criminal justice which is something in california recall Public Safety realignment. Many of you here being experts in the field are familiar with...

I wish it were. I wish we are having a real conversation about what that means. Because what that means in my view, is that we will do even as they maintenance of effort we have been doing. But i think devolution means we will be doing less. Less of maintenance, less of new capacity building. And look you look around the globe, there are countries that are experiencing population declines. And maybe thats a deeper stretch for country, or declines in the amount of commercial goods movement. But we are expecting expansion increases in both of those areas. And so its like what do we get about thi...