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Into the 2020 race. intercept is reporting that michael bloomberg's campaign hired third-party vendor out of state prisons to make campaign phone calls. according to a source prisoners making calls to california, quote, were required to end their calls by disclosing the calls were paid for by the bloomberg campaign. they did not disclose, however, that they were calling from a prison. the bloomberg campaign is calling this an oversight writing in a statement in part we only learned about this when the reporter called us, but as soon as we discovered which vendor's subcontractor had done this, ...

To identify, assess, and engage potential mass shooters before the fact is that 70% of the civil arrests that i.c.e. makes our local jails and state those shooters strike. prisons across the country. [applause] but we used to make more. before sanctuary laws or policies prevented us from doing and last month i was profoundly so, leaving us with no choice honored to award the medal of but to expend significant resources to locate and arrest valor to the six police officers criminal aliens and other who brought down the mass immigration violators in the community. it is less effective, it is mor...

It applies to federal prisons. state prisons hold a vast majority of prisoners in this country. is the administration working on that? >> yes. we're looking to show some leadership. the last time they did criminal justice reform, 30 years ago, and created mandatory minimums under the clinton administration, the states started to do mandatory minimums. now, we're seeing states doing the opposite. they're working on smart on crime policies. we're continuing to engage with the state leaders and doing things that will make communities safer and fair for all americans. >> speaking of being fair bec...

Definitely the last time. >> how do you know that this is different? >> i just feel totally different. i've never done a program. and out of 16 years of being in jail, i feel so much better after that 14 months that i'm doing right here. it's an awakening for me, personally. >> we've all made a choice to participate in trying to change our life. >> just a few years ago, therapy-based programing here didn't exist. inmates were here for too short a time. the average stay was just 54 days. but then in an effort to reduce overcrowding in state prisons, california started sending inmates with multi...

Mayor of new orleans. talk about the new orleans that you inherited as mayor in 1994. >> there were 400 plus murders a year the outcry from the african-american community to do something, to fix the problem, was really the clarion call that got me elected. >> bill bratton was new york city's police commissioner. >> parents were having their children sleep in bathtubs because of random bullets coming through the apartment windows. >> the law increased funding to hire 100,000 new police officers nationwide, provided incentives to build more state prisons. included the violence against women act ...