six-month sentence was because he was a very, he was a swimmer who was supposedly an olympic hopeful and all of that that he was given this basically, this task and i have to say how i felt to ways about it. i felt number one, six months ? for rate of an unconscious girl? it's an outrage in and of itself. number two, if this had been a young african-american man, i think he would've gotten six months? i don't think so. i think that in fact that's not a comparable case but another rape case, the young man got 15 years so which is what this one should have gotten. i hope, i've been hearing the judge is getting a lot of flak and i'm glad. he can't get enough. i'm glad people are speaking up and i'm glad cnn is doing a town hall. ashley made a whole letter which took a half-hour and she cried at various parts. it's unbelievable what this

woman has gone through and i have to say on a hopeful note it's progress that we are talking about this. it's progress that people are speaking out. it's progress this judge is getting the heat is getting forgiving this guy a pass and i really hope that people pay attention, parents pay attention to the fact that this man's father said well, anything more than six months would be a harsh sentence given it was only 20 minutes of action. you know? they come from somewhere and it has to dowith the way we raise our children. you've got to teach them young and teach them once and for all, if everyone is drinking no one says yes area . [applause] >> host: if anybody has read her statement is an extraordinary document, you should seek it out. go ahead. >> i want your opinion of barry scheck and his evidence that obscured the dna and its

blood evidence. >> guest: mary scheck. i had my biggest problem with him, johnny and i got along, carl and i always got along, i have problem with barry scheck because i knew he straight up lie . the new cna inside and out, he knew it very well. he founded the innocence project which is an important project that uses dna to exonerate people wrongly convicted. i sent a couple clients to them. but what he did in that courtroom was unconscionable. again we were objecting, but was overruled so i can only take it so far with what i think of barry scheck because the defense does what they do for the thing that's funny for me and i kept pointing it out but no one seemed to care is that his theories were conflicting. at one point he would say they planted the blood trail and then at another point he

would say no, it all got contaminated in the lab and let me say one thing about that. the notion that bill then at her had oj's blood and sprinkled between monday and rocking him is absolutely insane. insane for one reason. the blood trail was discovered that led from bundy all the way into rocking him was in his bedroom before he came back from chicago. no one had his blood. no one had anything and the blood trail was already there many hours before he got back. so not even possible. >> host: go-ahead. >> you've always been really inspirational to me and my life, watching you as a child. i like now working corrective rehabilitation at cook county jail and i kind of wanted a piece of advice from a mentor of how do you personally deal with working with someone that you know is innocent and watching them get sent away forever and how do you work

with a person for so many years and live your life knowing that they are put away for something they didn't do? >> guest: first of all thank you and i'm honored. and i just don't know. i have a client who is right now doing 50 to life. he should have been doing at most maybe six years for manslaughter and it's so wrong, it's all wrong area we fought and fought at every level, every level. we have a writ with the supreme court and i don't know what to tell you about that goes it's a heartbreak . i don't know what to tell you other than i keep in touch with him and i keep writing to him and telling him i believe you, i know. it's the only thing that is left to offer because we've exhausted all of our remedies and you can do that but as far as how you heal personally , i haven't found a way either.i don't know what to tell you but bless you for the work you are doing.

>> host: do you find the danger of developing to think of the skin because of the exact experience she says, you don't want to expose yourself to that over and over? >> guest: i don't know how you could develop so thick a skin as do not suffer over an injustice no matter what side of the lawsuit it is. at the end of the day whether you're a defense attorney or a prosecutor it is all about justice. >> host: i think we are out of time. they're cutting my throat so anyway, thank you very much and thank marcia for being here. [applause] i hope you all will go out and grab a book and have it signed and say hi to her. >> absolutely and thank you all for attending this presentation, ms. clark will be signing books directly outside the auditorium and bullet fest appreciate your feedback. go to printers row let fest not board to provide, thank you.

[inaudible conversation] >> the federal government on mobilization of the war on crime promoted a particular type of social control. when that will the target rest of the marginalized americans and the subsequent creation of new industries that support this regime of control, are among the central characteristics of domestic policy in the late 20th century. the decisions that policymakers and officials in closed circles or as part of a larger coalition made at the highest levels of government. had a measurable consequence for low income americans in

the nation. however unintended, some of those choices they have been at different times and different political moments. ultimately however, the bipartisan consensus policymakers fixated on the policing of urban state and eventually removing generations of young men and women of color from their communities to live inside a prison you can excuse instead of actions and choices these actions made as a product of their time or is merely an electoral tactic but by doing so you will continue to avoid confronting legacies of enslavement that prevent the nation from fully realizing the promise of its founding principles. until recently the devastating outcomes of the war on crime have gone relatively unnoticed. for many americans it appeared as though discrimination ended with the civil rights movement in the united states and move beyond race-based exploitation. alongside the tremendous growth of american law enforcement over the last 50 years a black middle class purpose and african-americans

assumed divisions of power with greater visibility with the rise of black mayors to blackwell for popular consumption to the presidency of barack obama. these achievements promoted discourse of cultural pathology and personal responsibility even further, making it seem as though the systematic incarceration of entire groups of racially marginalized isn't reflected the natural order of things. political representation and the fact that some black americans have amassed substantial wealth and capital do not mean historical racism and inequality has ended which i'm sure is not news to many of you in the room today. african-americans grew more affluent after 1965 by the end of the 20th century net financial assets of the highest black american-household were $7448. only $448 above that of the lowest six of white american household. in the black middle class is always been concentrated in the public sphere of social

services where mobility is tied to the extent of state funding on domestic programs. in celebrating racial inclusion championed by african-american activists and their allies across the nation during black history month every year, the back that many of the critical reforms of the postwar period have been negated by national crime priorities remain unrecognized. for instance, nine years after the passage of the voting rights act, the supreme court ruled that constitutional denial convicted felons the right to vote. they consistently remove convicts from voter rolls ever since 1964, richardson the ramirez decision and nearly 6 million americans, most of whom have served their sentences are deprived and disenfranchised. as a result of the disparities in criminal justice practices and estimated one out of 13 african-americans will not vote in the 2016 election due to a prior conviction.

because of this disenfranchisement and a set of punitive policies find it, a key civil-rights gain of the 1960s has become undone. we can go on and on. making a questionable situation worse the census mainly count people who are incarcerated in federal prisons as residents of the county where they are serving time it sentence counts in turn determine representations or rural areas are home to the majority of the us population their home to the majority of prisons. in other words urban americans who tend to favor democrats lost representation because of disenfranchisement and rule districts that can to favor republicans gain extra representation because of how the prison system works. meanwhile as mobility remains stagnant public schools and many urban neighborhoods are segregated more today than before the civil rights movement .

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created by america's television companies and brought to you as a public service by your cable or satellite provider. now, afterwards on book tv. wall street journal political columnist kimberly stossel discusses her book intimidation game in which she argues the left is utilizing tactics to usurp the political process. >> kimberly, thanks for doing this area this is your first book, it must be pretty exciting to have your first book out but it's a bit of a candle in darkening times area when you read it, it's compelling. what are the takeaways that you want readers to see?>> i think the point of this book is to say that we've got this new era in politics and i think it's a very scary one and it's weirdly, you can't always do this in politics. you can trace it to a date and i would make that date january 20, 2000 10.