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Right and the defense marriage act and the decision not to defend it in court. And he talked about restoring civil right and the vote to exfelons. This is 20 minutes. Our next guest is a special guest and we appreciate having him here as we always do. I commend general holder for his willingness to speak to us candidly and openly every year. The fact that our parting gift is going to be a baseball cap speaks to how many times you have been here because all of the gifts we give out have already been given to you. We will give you something you might be able to use. But we have all familiar with...

[inaudible conversations] this airing of the subcommittee will resume. It would have been ten minutes except the senate train broke down. [laughter] we had to walk over the capital. Please proceed. Good afternoon, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, members of the committee. Thank you for revisiting this pressing issue. Changing the culture in the prisons will change the culture and our cities and states. The disproportionate and arbitrary use of solitary confinement is not only immoral but they missed the opportunity to break the cycle of crime. This approach doesnt increase Public Safety and is co...

Director of external affairs, and he served in the Mission House of representatives elected speaker, lives in michigan with his wife, stacy, and three young daughters, and i thank you and justice fellowship for your appearance here today. Mark levin, at the texas Public Policy foundation, playing an Important Role in adult and justice reforms, and the state, the leader of the Public Policy foundation, right on crime initiative, led conservative efforts to reform the criminal Justice System. He was law clerk to judge will garwood on the fifth circuit and staff attorney at the texas supreme cour...

For some reason we seem to think that for admin seg, someone will sell 23 hours a day. Who defines that . Its probably some court case that mandates that and why isnt it 20 hours a day or 18 hours a day. They work their way down to 10. Thats one thing we will be doing. Its been automatic that someone on death row will stay in administrative segregation until they are put to death. Some are found innocent and released and we will change our policy on that and giving them the opportunity to get outside of yourself. Where we will end up is a small handful of all that we are talking about. For tho...

I might ask anybody in this audience to stand up if they feel like they would like to live next to someone thats been released directly from segregation into the street and im pretty sure people are going to stay in their chairs. What we were able to do, in 2012 we released 140 directly into the street. In 2014 we released two so far. And the other area i was challenged by the governor was take a look at everyone else in administrative segregation and see if you can determine the numbers of those that should be released. Weve done that. That was started by the executive director and continued ...