John Peter Celia News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Fellowship former president of the prison fellowship when he was there he liked to talk about the fact that today we lock people up because we are mad at them when we should be reserving prison and jail space for people who we are afraid of. There are obviously people who have committed crimes and who are dangerous enough that they need to be kept away from rest of society. They built the prisons and the prosecutors build them up. I have to say one thing in trying to get real Prison Reform through and we have done most of our work at the state level as im sure doug knows, we have had Great Suc...

We have with us, moving from the left to the right geographically otherwise erhaps [laughter] lurk, the attorney maryland, the former states attorney in Montgomery County, former president of the National Association of attorney generals. Next to him is jeff. Assistant for Camara Harris of california. Jeff oversees criminal law as a special assistant in california. Next to jeff is cyrus vance, the District Attorney. Those of us in manhattan know him well. Next to him as anthony, the commissioner of the Baltimore Police department. Has joined us today. Finally, to my immediate left we have davi...

Was born and raised in new orleans. I am the second youngest u. S. Attorney fry now in our country and happen to have lost a brother to street violence in new orleans. We are using the student pledge against gun violence where we are going to all 450 schools on one day, october 15 of 28. Were simply asking the young people to pledge not to bring a gun to school. Weaponomise not to use a and promised to use the influence with family and friends to ensure those individuals to not use a weapon to resolve a fight or dispute. Since 1996. Around over 10 million have used this and taken the pledge. I...

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...