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Thank you all for being here. jackie, i'm going to go to you on this first. the acting secretary for homeland security elaine duke said this in addition to her previous said. she said significant steps have been taken to improve the stability and quality of life for haitian citizens. haiti is able to safely receive traditional levels of return citizens. based on your reporting, is that true? >> no, it is not true. they have yet to provide us the matrix on which they made this decision. yes, haiti just elected a new president. yes, the united nations pulled out its military force, but they are ...

That mean for my community, and how do i prepare best to welcome these return citizens back to the city, and what's happening in the prisons is not just and it's a clear violation of human rights. these folks are sentenced to their term for the crime they committed. many nonviolent offenders who go in nonviolently, for whatever, often because of the war on drugs, and come out a different person because they had nothing to there to help them get past what they were dealing with in the prison setting. >> you didn't just do this as a policy exercise, you did it as you wrote, a personal exercise, ...

Spend time in jail." joining me now is david grazzo, member of the washington, d.c. city council. good evening. tell us about what it was like there in jail for you. >> good evening, thanks for having me on. you know, it was an opportunity for me to go into the prison and meet with the inmates and spend really quality time with the inmates, trying to understand what it meant to be there and what it meant to have that kind of violence surrounding you every single day. what i really realized as i was there was that there's not a whole lot of reform going on, not a whole lot of kind of help to ge...