CSPAN Washington This Week January 9, 2016
Parts in the country. This gap grows even wider in a state like mine. One of the things that we did not talk about that is a barrier that we have to address and the federal government is doing the wrong way dealing with drug addiction. Drug addiction is the huge part of the debilitating cycle. When folks lose hope, a lot of them turn, out of desperation, to drugs. Then we have a situation where incarceration goes higher because of the policies of the federal government. That is why, in new jersey, one of the things we did, we said, if you are a first time nonviolent drug offender, you do not g...