in the radical islam through foundations and are other ways so the financing through a mosque tax will not exclude these ways of funding it will just create a framework for institutionalizing and more deeply rooting islam in germany this step would perfectly fit the global agenda for migrants and the global compact format refugees which have been adopted only reasonably. if you have something to say on any of our stories to get in touch by following us on social media we're back at the top of the hour with the latest see them.

when we bankrupt president were bothered by government at all that is there is about them so you can see them as us the truth was completely divorced from your mom so. the justice department said today the inmate population of federal and state prisons in this country is at an all time high. the public sees a need for more prisons because crime is the number one concern of the people in the state. too many inmates in not enough space. and other crime another. country and already fed up with the start of what goes on. in the combination of an american with all of this going to prison population or just want to. be a. prison are going to die. a

shocking new number was released today and it deserves our undivided attention one out of every one hundred americans is now behind bars walked up to prison or jail. the most important thing. as to talk from your heart if you have more than one child give a like an overall message but then do an individual one to each child throw them a kiss talk to them about what you do daily the rest should be just you if you've written a porn we've had people pray we've had people saying one guy showed his little boy how to shoot a basket the creative. these are gifts to your children. the families are

punished right along with. they have found people don't think so but the collateral consequences of somebodies incarceration affects not just the whole family but it affects the whole community and affects you as an individual or the you know whether or not and whether you know that person or not that's incarcerated. get to inform. you should care. i have a background in film and as a producer and i thought there's got to be something i can do so why not combine my career and my experience with the present system and come up with something for these kids. and a parent in that camera. and that they can look at them and say. you know this isn't your fault you did nothing wrong it means and for many of these men and women it's the first time they really take responsibility which is huge and that's

a first step in recovery of any kind of any kind is to take responsibility for. but even with. this. ready to serve everybody. is going to go. on to do the best they can to stay out of this booth. for. good this. it's been the way. this was you guys in good numbers so can we be with. a. nice chap. from nineteen twenty one thousand nine hundred seventy this whole half century of american history the rate of incarceration was

roughly level or about one hundred ten per one hundred thousand. and this is a broad span of our history this is because the ruling twenty's and prohibition the depression and all the social change the world war two the post-war economic boom the the the fifty's the explosion of suburbia the sixty's and all the social turbulence through this whole period the rate of incarceration is roughly level in the united states at about one hundred ten per man hundred times and this reflects you know the policies of police departments and prosecutors and judges operating all over the country in local and state level and then in one nine hundred seventy this all changes so that by now the rate of incarceration issue why just over seven hundred and three to incarceration for african-americans is over four thousand four hundred dollars and so you have to wonder how does what she why did

this half century of stability get ended with this dramatic increase incarceration in spades america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse once the federal government decided that we're going to have war on drugs they were able to then take a lot of money from the federal budget and send it out states health vireo. the need for money to deal with this problem i am glad that in this administration we have increased the amount of money for handling the problem of dangerous drugs seven it will be six hundred million dollars this year more money will be needed in the field and virtually everybody thought the drug war was the number one issue and so you had politicians in both parties and you know district attorneys and elected sheriff everybody wanted to get in to drug cases and get aggressive about new laws

to punish the new agents to arrest the new prosecutors to convict them and new prisons to hold them. we move the train when i was very young we moved here we moved you know to malone's we used to always well up and down the hallways of course it was the projects so sometime we will sneak up on the roof which was the top floor twelfth floor and you know look out and of course i was very scared as a young child but you know when you live in a projects it's always so much stuff that you can get into my brother was tragically killed when he was ran over by a truck and i remember pacifically going to the corner with a habanera and seeing all the blood because they let all the blood still in the street a traumatic experience of losing my only brother and that truck eggs and i know it had done something to me you know drugs from our skate that time was hard all the way or because my son was doing drugs my nephews was too much drugs my niece was

doing drugs my sisters with doing drugs it was like an epidemic. of drug abuse. and i cannot explain. i cannot explain my feelings because i had at that time i didn't know how i felt you know i was sad because i felt like they were different in their lives but there was not the not to do about it to change their lifestyle. that was it. after my brother passed away i kind of withdrew from a lot of things i didn't talk as much i was very quiet all probably as early as my teenage years oh twelve thirteen years old you know i started sneaking a drink in a little bit here and there started smoking marijuana at

a very young age i started all selling drugs in you know he came right along with. family you tend to trust family when i first saw here and there with a. in the hallway and i used to be a hopeful monitor and i was station right in front of his locker so when i knew that he was coming to his locker i would put my hands up in like black youth wait. so he would have to say excuse me something in that we started talking we got to know each other you know at the home many times in and out over at her house. you know my home. was a really home compared to her house margaret grew up with her parents before the parents all the nice decent house great mother great father home something that i didn't have and i started you know just being around her

a lot and being around family a lot and next thing you know you know it's pretty much you know once we started going to get i was pretty was there in our house and fourteen years old it was pretty much the end there because my mom was on drugs she. knew i was there she really didn't have a problem with it but a kindness started you know living this day with morgan at a very young age. by the time i was sixteen seventeen i was fully engulfed in the drug game and it is only was so big it was only seven point five square miles so a lot of rumors a stylus britain along to the train detectives back then they had to take to that one high school and they kind of got to know me very well and i guess they relayed that information to the trip narcotics and they started watching me and follow me around the stuff like that and i remember the first time that they that they raided my house i wasn't there but my mother was there and i was i think i just turned seventeen and um they locked her up and i got

a phone call saying that you know your mother was locked up and they want you to turn yourself in. so i visually i turned myself in a seventeen i let my mother go and i first time you ever going to joe i went to you found because i was. i was always those. still in high school and we missed the part. when i got out i remember the detective telling me that you know soon as i turn eighteen they're going to come back. and if i don't straighten out my life that first spears will be none compared to other experiences in jail because then i will be overweight and i will be going into a facility. most historians look at the origin of the war on drugs as something of president nixon with his speeches and his creation of of the d.n.a. and other agencies in the one nine hundred seventy s. but the war in drugs as we understand it with. enormous enormous case loads and and

in and filled up prison population is really a feature of the one nine hundred eighty s. under president reagan drugs are menacing our society they're threatening our values and undercutting our institutions they're killing our children under reagan there was a tremendous increase in federal spending for anti drug activity cabinet level efforts and congress creating brea powerful new laws on day two of a new campaign against drugs the president backed up a tough talk with action for getting tough on drugs and we mean business it's almost like overnight we had discrete idea what we go after the users. and that's what we did we started going after the users in a prison populations who are. obviously are far more users than are operations major operations in. we started treating sick people people who were addicted to drugs when member a member talked to my grandmother and having

a conversation with her about my life and how far i had fallen she said to me you know jason will always pray for you and i'm going to pray that you change your life around. so one of the things that she said to us stuck with me was dead you know god is going to find your darkest hour and only there when you realize who you truly your and i heard her but i really didn't hear her. and i left her house that they give a dinner i want right back out into the streets. i remember going to new york on the cob when coming back from new york coming down route one coming through your county we had drugs in the car and we had a gun in the car. and i remember being stopped at a light and get now switching drivers i got round to the passenger side and she took the pharmacy and not knowing that it was a cop car right behind us so once again i didn't want to go to court i was going to try i told my laura that you know we just had to try to get all the charges pushed

together give me one senses let me go to my time and hopefully straight up my life i remember pacifically the judge sits in just telling me then element to tom losing . and he said tracy hughes convicted in one thousand nine hundred you know you can begin again in one thousand nine hundred eighty he said come back before me for the third time in the third time is going to be a charge for you. join me every first day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see if. it's hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi doctor was still active rich in the nineteen seventies crittle had as the

chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz a german company grown untold developed solidified a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything paul here she said is just cut short arms minix of it in mind victims have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that. not only want the money i want the revenge. the direction to would judge to sentence can be done in two ways you can say judge here's a crime and for this crime you can impose a sentence anywhere in this range from probation to some term of years

imprisonment the other way is to say judge you must impose some minimum number of years or months of imprisonment and go up from there so a mandatory minimum this is a sentence where no matter how minor the role of the offender no matter how insignificant a violation of this crime it is a minimum term must be imposed mandatory minimum sentences are not new they've been on the books in this country for two hundred years. there are about one hundred ninety of them or something and if you look at them they read like the crimes as you are so you can see what the public was concerned about and then congress took that concern and translated it into law and to let sentencing legislation so piracy on the high seas in like seven hundred ninety s. got a life without parole robbing banks and crossing state lines in one nine hundred thirty four was you know ten years of prison skyjacking in the seventy's for as ten or

twenty years in prison and so you can see the you know what was the point the headlines were the headlines were translated into a mandatory sentence and so in the eighty's when drugs became a big deal and lots of concern about drugs it was in the top three of public concern congress reacted by creating new mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes what congress sent to president was five years minimum five grams of crack cocaine grams likes we. can years minimum is fifty grand of crack cocaine that's like the weight of a kid or these are tiny quantities it's all based on one factor your sense you know how what was a drug and how much of it did you have and that determines your sentence so culpability no longer really plays a major role in a person's a person sentence when the crime carries a mandatory minimum when president reagan signed the mandatory minimums and ninety

six the federal prison population was thirty six dollars. now it's well over two hundred cals this is a growth that no one could have imagined mass incarceration in the u.s. is really unique in human history there's no democratic nation that's ever tried to have such a massive social experiment as we've done in incarceration and we have more prisoners than any other country in the window for. numbers i mean i find it a bit disturbing that we have more prisoners from china. and they have a billion people and i don't think it gives people enough cause when they hear that we have twenty five percent of the world's prison population and only five percent of the world's population in other words we are way over incarcerating compared to any other country in the world. had allowed. somebody is a storage in

a mine and police found it and they came after me i ended up literally holding the bag. i knew nothing about the criminal justice system you know here i was this middle class. career never even a parking ticket and it was quite a surprise when we went to court. i had that kind of time marijuana. and i was charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute money going to the spirits in terms of i received a total of fifty five year prison sentence the judge suspended all but six i was fortunate. to make first poor old and i actually served in prison fourteen months. is the cards that we've put in with the messages and asked the families to respond so we've gotten some really

good responses and this one was three family three members of the family viewed it . and we ask what were the ages of the children who saw it she quit just want to put six. she says an extremely meaningful for the daughter of the mother who was incarcerated she loved it. we all did. and. what did the message mean to your family to know their family was ok and it's a huge part these children want to know that their families i mean their mom or dad . that's ok. this is the sole shoulder so to go nose it in three years and see if you see. missed also lives in our green leaves regime here is that you don't feel. doesn't your fault just very good enough to join the phone anyone else in the family love does it show me filter you to fold has been me. the

role of a lot of just these last three four years going to the last. go. swan say the. very first. they said is me too one year administrative segregation and mistress of occasion is twenty three hour long going to be locked up twenty three hours each day you come out for half hour shower and a half hour break i know a bit of olive person. at that time i was treated like one of the worst phone persons in the world i remember going into this i believe maybe if i buy a cell. i was dead or close i knew i was going to be there for the next year is just an experience that it is going to make your break you you're going to come out

a better person are you going to come out of worship person than you were before you went in. the in the whole of this mirrors that i know i wouldn't wish on anybody. but you locked up for twenty three hours i think you can do is one of the words i want to grandmother just kept playing over and over again in my mind and those words was the guy i was going to farm in my darkest hour you know you know what i realize who are actually was and what i kept hearing that because saying i am at my door now where i am at my lowest point. and. i think right there i realized that. i have released my lowest point in life. only on the way for me to go from here. another crime another criminal kind of thing that already have fed up with both real is right politician for the solution is simple crackdown the reason the criminal justice system isn't working is that we're not sending enough people to jail and keeping there long enough that people are saying general way that they will to lock these rascals up and keep them

there for a long time during the one nine hundred eighty s. there was a major shift in the congress and in state legislatures of doubt how long sentences should be the public was a long term by increasing rates of crime from the one nine hundred seventy s. and early eighty's and they wanted longer sentences they wanted cracking down and that's what happened across the board for all kinds of crimes not only the mandatory minimum drug sentences effective all those sensing laws was not just to increase the sentences that people were exposed to so the people were serving longer time in prison than they did before it was also to take the discretion away from the sentencing discretion away from judges and juries and shifted over to prosecutors it didn't limit it discretion it just gave prosecutors. the power to determine what your sentence was going to be by making charging decisions and even

by bargaining over what the facts of your case were so it didn't mean that discretion it was eliminated from the system it just put the prosecutors in charge . amy it was born in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and she was very very shy but by the task that in high school people can sat it in or she played basketball made good grades high school that we went to a seventh or twelfth grade i was kind of the little tagalong sister. my brother were friends and i mean my sister were. just kind of watch sure she was. always really friendly and showing nice this is a small town and everybody knows everybody but she got in trouble we'd know about it. i had what i consider an idyllic childhood. and some point when i'm in college i mean guy that works for southwest times record the newspaper there in

fort smith arkansas and he asked me if i would be a subject for him to go out and take some modeling photos we went to like several locations and he instilled in me that i really ought to pursue a modeling career consider my mother says to just you know i mean ralston moved to dallas my gosh no you know. what she's thinking was she going to do it so i think she's going to model so i created a little portfolio before i went to dallas that i could show to the modeling agencies fandy it was well read well traveled well educated graduated stanford law school i had gone to princeton theology school so it was it was very appealing to be around somebody who i was frankly very impressed with and so fascinated with and eight months later we were getting married at the dallas arboretum and all of our family and friends were there and it was at that point seemed like

a dream come true. there were red flags before we got married there were there were frankly there were red flags all along the way sandy has what i consider to be a dual personality you know and that this other character would emerge whenever he drank i don't literally had to do something radical. the only remedy to remove him from my life was for me to leave dallas i had to leave dallas and i'd leave all my friends behind and completely. move to a different city i mean. sadly i asked sandy. that he wouldn't leave her i just kept saying you know let's be friends let's be friends he wanted it to be more so he told me that he was going to europe and then i never heard anything for a while though word got back to me that he'd been arrested. i had been in dallas and over a year of the only thing i knew to do was to book

a flight to dallas to see if i could go through the house listen to the answering machine and try to piece this thing together and eventually think you're going to find out more information and while i was in the dallas house the phone rang and it was sandy's german legal counsel who had been assigned to the case in germany and at that time he. gave me very thin details but said that sandy had been arrested for manufacturing ecstasy and that he wanted to retain an attorney for him there dallas it was a pretty interesting revelation but i did there was money in the safe that was in the house in dallas and i took that money and retained an attorney to go over and meet with him in germany. seven months after sandy has been arrested and i pull into the garage of my car as rushed by law enforcement people who are screaming and

have a gun out and they're pointing at my face i'm being told you know you're in hot water we know that your husband was arrested we know you know we know you visited him in germany and they said we know you have information and all you have to do is just tell us what you know and i wasn't going to say anything because i'm literally watching these people destroying my mom this isn't somebody that i really want to confide in so that it wasn't very long after that that my lawyer explained to me exactly what it is that my process. they don't want to they want her to wear a wire. and try to m.k. other people people she didn't even know. she what she refused to do she said i don't know they spit on i'm not going to do this and this prosecutor said you you're down paraphrasing. operator will ruin your lot.

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