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>> the jail had to make numerous adjustments to go from being a short-term facility for pretrial detainees to lousing long-term felons, many of whom were seasoned prison inmates. since these state prison inmates will now be released directly into their communities the law came with an important provision. funding for a variety of re-entry programs, some of which provide real-world job skills. one program for female inmates is a culinary arts course run by a professional chef, trun bui. >> the training das signed for two months so the lady can go out and get a job in albertson's, food mart, eve...

And not enough attention has been put on it. and maybe the money could be better and more effectively spent. we have a new prison commissioner, bureau of prisons, he's open to this. we've talked about this. so i'm hopeful that we can improve that. and fundamentally we do need to make sure that anything that's done with regard to these re-entry programs, that we studied the best ones and try to make sure our money is going to the better programs as opposed to some that may not be as efficient. >> thank you for that. it gets the people from the minute they start in, so that the bureau of prisons...

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Get to know you as a person, instead of oh, that's just a convict. >> so if you don't have the mind-set to plan for sobriety, then you don't know where you're going. your mind is like the map. >> greggs said there's been another development since he first arrived. >> when i first came here, i wasn't eating because i thought the food was nasty. but i kind of got used to programming in here and doing what i got to do in order to survive. i eat everything, every day, breakfast, lunch and dinner. >> it tastes better? >> yeah, it tastes better now. >> what i see from greggs, he's optimistic. there ...

During the campaign said to black folks in america, what do you have to lose? well, this is the answer to that question. what we have to lose is an entire generation of particularly young people of color, folks who have mental health oirkz, folks who have addiction issues to mass incarceration. if you look at the previous administration, we were making clear strides, bipartisan strides to reduce our prison population. >> those strides were in terms of dealing with sentencing, not having disproportionate stenz in particular nor people of color. >> getting rid of are mandatory minimums. investig...