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There would be potential days that looked like this. so my mom wrote my letters and send my pictures the remaining six years of my prison sentence so she should show me the window to the world, this is why i'm grateful of what happens around the country. we have the first step act. what we're doing now, the second chances. even once i came home, it was still very challenging for me to get a job. after finally finding the job at a paint store, minimum wage job and i was very grateful just to be able to get a job and it was only because of the way that they worded one of the questions on the app...

That is a great industry. [applause] just in case you didn't hear me say this before, we've become the number 1 energy producer by far in the world. we're topping saudi arabia, topping russia. [applause] our administration is also working to allow rehabilitated citizens with a criminal record to apply for both federal government jobs and affordable housing. something that we were unable to do before. [applause] here with us today is marcus bulloch. he went to prison as a minor in 1996 and now runs a technology company. he's doing a very good job. marcus, please come up and say hello. you're he...

Law-abiding members of our society. when inmates come home, the single most important action we can take is to help them find a really good job where they love the job, they go there and making a lot of money, right? that's what's happening. that's because of a lot of reasons and because we have a great economy. some people that wouldn't have normally made that choice, they've made that choice and they're so happy. i'm talking about employers. they're so happy. one man said the best people that work for them came out of prison. now he considers them among his best people. too often former inma...

Thank you. [applause] while we were building opportunities for other men and women to come home and have a great place to be able to work with a sustainable employment, we wanted to venture out a little bit further. in 2012, we started our first tech company. that tech company is now a venture-backed company that connects families back to their incarcerated loved ones the same way my mom wrote me letters and pictures while in prison. we connected over 140,000 families around the country. same greatful because the resources that are flowing back into these prison cells using our tech is buildin...

Thank you. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you all for being here. and don't worry about the name. that's the best pronunciation anybody has done. i'm john. mr. president, you know, your courage in criminal justice reform has made america safer, made america better and made america more prosperous. thanks for that first and foremost. [applause] >> neil: all right. you're listening and we'll continue watching what is the first example of the fruits of labor on bipartisan support on criminal justice reform that would allow and try to address those that come out of prison, can't find work. the...