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About both it and the constitution. The National Archives hosted this event to mark the 800th anniversary of the magna carta. It is about 90 minutes. Im the executive director of the constitutional project, we are an organization devoted to promote greater access to an understanding of u. S. Constitutional history. It is a pleasure to join the National Archives this evening to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the ceiling of the magna carta. Magna carta has left a profound legacy for law and culture around the world. To commemorate magna carta and its powerful ideas, like trial by jury and du...

Thank you, senator. From my perspective, having joined as a correctional officer in 1988 and around that time the bureaus population was a little more than 60,000. I think historically when you book at the bureau of prisons and go back from 1940 to 1980, the bureaus population pretty much remained flat for many, many years in excess of 20,000. So in 1980, which is the primary target for this discussion, we, as an agency, we had approximately 24,000 inmates in the federal system. We had less than 9,000 employees, 41 institutions and able to operate the entour bur en tour bureau of prisons for 3...

Of evacuees to go home soon. The governor toured the rocky fire today and ktvus tom vacar is back from the area and is in the news room. Reporter 60 of the massive fire remained uncontrolled. Reporter governor jerry brown came to the fire to assess the damage, lend support to the residents and praise to the 3635 firefighters including 1200 inmates working the fire lines. He also came to warn of what lies ahead. Yeah, we have a challenge in california because august and september are more threatening than july. Fasten your seatbelts. Reporter he is set on getting the Climate Change message out....

The law. It was legal you cant use this because youre black. Its an important distinction that will become more so as we talk about achievements of the people in this book. When we talk about the rules put in placed by the Kennedy Administration and how they were influenced by nasa and contractors. Our book tells the story that ten men, most people that came to work in the Space Program in the year that we call the civil rights era, some of them went after employees and some contractors. Kennedy was forced to deal with civil rights. These are not things that he talked about the campaign. He di...

Example, out of trenton, where an in mate by the name of sean washington in 2013 he was a clerk at the library and he wanted to leave the library to go bring some legal papers to one of the other inmates but a corrections officer said you cannot leave and the facts are disputed but the worst facts, the facts that the state claims, is that mr. Washington then said mother fer, dont tell me what to do. What was his punishment . 90 days in solitary confinement. That is a real example we see all across the nation. So just for time. So we know that people are being sent to solitary for many Differen...