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Some are effective. not enough attention has been put on it. 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 talked about it. i'm hopeful that we can improve that and fundamentally we do need to make sure that anything that is done with regard to entry programs that we studied the best ones and tried to make sure our money is going to the better programs as opposed to some that may not be as efficient. >> thank you for the endorsement of the bill. that's what it does. gives the people from the minute they s...

Of black people at the hands of officers that needs to be addressed and these implicit biases we all have that play a big role in how people are treated. and the criminal justice system that we have, that's broken, and oftentimes affects communities of color more than anybody else and it's debt mental not only to the individual but to the communities. we talk about you have 450,000 people every night in jail, not because they've been convicted of any crime but because they can't afford bail to get out. it's costing us $38 million a day to keep people in jail when we could be using that money t...

Of color more than everybody else, and it's detrimental not only to the individual but to their homes and communities. we talk about the system and the fact that you have 450,000 people people every night in jail, not because they've been convicted of any crime but because they can't afford bail to get out. it's costing us $38 million a day to keep people in jail when we could be using that money to better our schools, to rehabilitate people, to give people an opportunity. our reentry programs, when people do get caught up in this system -- when they're trying to come back out in society, they...

When those victims have a power such that they render those who are treating it wrong accountable, and that's what democracy's all about. without the love and without the dialogue and without the bearing witness, we lose it. >> mr. jackson, i want to bring you in here, a supporter of criminal justice reform. days ago, the president told a crowd of police he wishes they would rough up suspects more, let them hit their heads, and now says there were good people in the mob of white supremacies, and outside the church that dr. kor a cornell west was in. does any of that give you pause on this pres...

To here. >> jail, to make numerous adjustments and a pre-trial attorney, many of them were hned primtss inmates. >> funding for a variety of reentry programs. one program for fell mails is a professional chef. ork. it's leerily the 1970s.