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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...

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...

Are able to function with it and they are able to get through, weather with their colleagues or because they know how to manage it, they continue with it, but they still have some of the symptoms. That is another thing that goes along with what you were saying, you have ptsde does not mean you are addled with all kinds of disabilities, but it could be that it is something it affects your sleep light might narrow like nightmares. And traumaticsd brain injury overlap, a lot of times has to do with the way that somebody thats a traumatic brain injury could be through a that theyevent, so might ha...

Mentoring approach and take it into new orleans at this point. The other one is a question. Hether you try to save money but indeed the reindustry program is more than rehabilitation. And many of the people who have been in prison come out and become social workers, p. H. D. s and not realize many times they get converted and they bim more substantial. We need to get the measures out. [applause] ok. Thank you. And were going to wrap up. Im getting im sure they have a big hook someone that theyll eventually pull me out with. I want to thank my great colleagues on the panel. [applause] its alway...

Guilty plea for former philly sportscaster Don Tollefson. He admitted today to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from local charities but despite that plea, prosecutors expect even more victims to come forward. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante spoke with key players on both sides of the story. Reporter there are more than 200 people who claim that they have been ripped off and the District Attorney says more call every day claiming to be victims of former sportscaster Don Tollefson. I wanted to thank all of you for respecting my familys privacy. And as the healing process begins, i hope youll co...