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Jen psaki, white house spokesperson, is going to be our guest tonight, even though were only one week into the administration, i can show you this many different pictures of her conducting different White House Press briefings because we have daily White House Press briefings again. She does these every day. Under the Trump Administration, the white house briefings started off bad and got quickly worse before they ultimately disappeared entirely. They really just seemed in the last administration to not be able to handle the responsibility of talking to the press every day and taking questions...

Pann for the d. C. Court of appeals set for this morning and lawmakers are expected to debate a Global Climate change treaty, and to refuse gases commonly used in air conditioning and refrigerators. Live to the floor of the u. S. Senate. The chaplain let us p. Our father in heaven, in whom we live and move and have our being, we glorify your precious name. Lord, we ask you to guide our lawmakers as they influence the future of this nation and world. Lead them with your wisdom, direct them with your patience, and protect them with your power. Lord, we pray that our senators will faithfully fulf...

For some reason we seem to think that for admin seg, someone will sell 23 hours a day. Who defines that . Its probably some court case that mandates that and why isnt it 20 hours a day or 18 hours a day. They work their way down to 10. Thats one thing we will be doing. Its been automatic that someone on death row will stay in administrative segregation until they are put to death. Some are found innocent and released and we will change our policy on that and giving them the opportunity to get outside of yourself. Where we will end up is a small handful of all that we are talking about. For tho...

I might ask anybody in this audience to stand up if they feel like they would like to live next to someone thats been released directly from segregation into the street and im pretty sure people are going to stay in their chairs. What we were able to do, in 2012 we released 140 directly into the street. In 2014 we released two so far. And the other area i was challenged by the governor was take a look at everyone else in administrative segregation and see if you can determine the numbers of those that should be released. Weve done that. That was started by the executive director and continued ...

Knowledgeable to do. Too often our jails have become our countrys mental institutions, and i believe that supporting bills such as the Community Mental Health Collaborative Mental Health act that senator franken spoke of earlier will help provide resources to our states, Law Enforcement community, as well as to our state corrections officials when theyre encountering and dealing with people that are suffering from Mental Health issues and Mental Illness. I would like to share some promising alternatives and strategies from justice fellowships perspective of those that have reduced the use of s...