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Year into indefinite detention people are willing to confess to anything in order to get there case moved into the court system. You see people get to court and want to repudiate their confession. Of course, what does the court turned around and do . You cant repudiate. Repudiate. I think that it is true that we didnt we do tend to assume that people detained are guilty. If you look at the number, in fact, it is not actually true. There is an earlier stage in which they accept the case. They used to give us those numbers in the annual report they have stopped doing it for whatever reason, but in the old days about half of those initially investigated never ended up with an indictment. What i assume is lot of those people end up getting an administrative punishment because it is determined they have not really committed a major offense. What we dont know is how many of those people get off because they are determined to be not guilty. But i think you are absolutely right. When it hits t ....
A captive audience. You can work with them in so many different ways to make sure that you do more and get that recidivism rate down to the 20 percent where taxpayers are no longer paying 30 some thought to 530 some odd thousand dollars a year to house these people. It is a win win for everyone involved. The notion of talking about reentry and figuring out Practical Solutions is something we need to continue to dialogue as we go forward. Thank you for that. We have time for two really good and short questions. [applauding] [inaudible question] and if you look at the issue of wrongful convictions, it is clear that wrongful convictions more likely affect africanamericans and other minority groups. So if we we are talking about bringing an end to mass incarceration, shouldnt we be talking about bringing an end to wrongful convictions . I think we would like to invite a comment on that. Just before we get there, before you get to ....