we'll keep trying to china ties evil characters in the future or in marvel's dr strange she was supposed to be a tibetan monk who is to strange. dr actually. a racist stereotype who comes from a region of the world that's in a very weird political place here originates from tibet so if you acknowledge that tibet is a place in the teeth tibetan he risk alienating one billion people and risk the chinese government going you know going to show you a movie because you decided to get political. other tricks include classic of showing chinese products getting chinese actors to start hollywood even coming up with special scenes where someone from china be a character or cast member saves the day. chased by cia assassins. we.

truly local. paper. child ah you are always young this is was it really. is was. this some actors even felt worried they were being exploited. when the director approached me and i began by asking quite frankly if it's a real character or if he's only cast me based on commercial considerations for the market. setting up some lucrative business ties with chinese companies is also a great option so that beijing movie industry fire wall isn't all that impenetrable you just need to do the right thing and hollywood's more than happy to get on board what it smells big bucks. outside news this i'll be back around thirty minutes time but do stay with us for a document in cost writing us which is up next here on off the international.

by the way bank of pres but we bother to back up what all that is there is about them so you can see them as institutions 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 this state. too many inmates not enough space. in their crime another. country and already fed up with the start of what. was a. combination of smoking in america with all of this going to prison population or just want to. be in 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 with 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 or talk to them about what you do daily the rest should be just you if you've written a poor we've had people pray we've had people saying one guy showed his little boy

how to shoot a basket be 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 effects not just that whole family but it affects the whole community it 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 video 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 they can look at them and say you

know this isn't your fault you did nothing wrong it means a lot and for many of these men and women it's the first time they've really taken responsibility which is huge and that's a first step in recovery of any kind. is to take responsibility for. but even with. this. readiness of everybody that. i was going to go. i'm going to do the best they can to stay out of this booth. for. good this. been away from. this once you got in good numbers can we be with. a.

nice chap. from one thousand 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 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 percent rhythms and this reflects you know the policies of police departments and prosecutors and judges operating all over the country in the local and state level and then in the one nine hundred seventy this all changes so that by now the rate of incarceration issue white is over

seven hundred and. of course are issue 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 of 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 helped by real. 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 ball it will be six hundred million dollars this year more money will be needed to do it 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 them new prosecutors to convict them and new prisons to hold them. we move the train when i was very young when we moved here we moved you know to below we used to always roll 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 the 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 left all the blood still in the street the 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 state 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 shunned 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. the 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 and like black youth wait . so he would have to say excuse me or something in that we started talking we got to know each other you know at the walk at home many times in and out over our house. you know my home. wasn't really a home compared to our 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 i was pretty much you know once we started going to get i was pretty was there in our house and fourteen years old i was pretty much stay in there because my mom was on drugs she longs she knew i was there she really didn't have a problem with it but a kindness started you know live in 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 the high school and they kind of got to know me very well and i guess they relayed that information to the trade narcotics and they started watching me and follow me around the stuff like that and i remember the first time. 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 ventured 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 as soon as i turn eighteen there's 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 would be over eighteen and i would be going to 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 reward 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 bring powerful new laws on day two of a new campaign against drug 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 a member talked to my grandmother and having that conversation with her about my life and how far i had fallen she said to me you know tracy it will always pray for you and i'm going to pray to you change your life around. here one of the things that she said that stuck with me was dead you know god is going to far in 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 skip and then it went right back out into the streets. i remember going to new york to cobb then coming back from new york coming down route one coming through union 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 around to the passenger side and she took the driver's seat 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 citizen just telling me that element to tom losing . and he said tracy hughes convicted in one thousand nine hundred you can begin again in one nine hundred eighty eight he said come back before me for the third time in the third time is going to be a charm for you. you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to

dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media. refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the direction to would judge to sentence can be done in two ways to 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 and 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 into let sensing legislation so on piracy on the high seas in like seven hundred ninety s. 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 needed three 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. 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 in ninety six the federal prison population was thirty six thousand. now it's well over two hundred thousand this is a growth that no one could have imagined mass incarceration in the u.s. is really unique in human history there is no democratic nation that's ever tried

to have such a mass of social experiment as we've done in incarceration and we've got more prisoners than any other country in the room and over by rape and numbers i mean i find it a bit disturbing that we have more prisoners from china and they have a billion more people and we do i don't think it gives people an eye 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 story here a line and the 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. our eyes when we want to cork. i had that kind of time marijuana. and i was charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute money going to conspiracy to murder i received a total of fifty five year prison sentence the judge suspended all but six i was fortunate enough. to make the first parole and i actually served in prison fourteen months and came home. 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 fam up three members of the family viewed it . and we ask what were the ages of the children who saw it she put just want to put six. she says an extremely meaningful for the daughter of the mother who was incarcerated she loved that. we all did.

and this one said 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 the mom or dad so ok. there's just soul shoulders they know who's been three years since the age of you see. mr jones looms in our group and we've pretty sure is that you don't read. those unsure fall just very remote control phone and you want to listen to friend with of done which already filled you to the fold has been the. role of a lot of just just wish through four years going to. go. swimming say the. very first.

they said this me to a one year administrative segregation and administrative segregation is twenty three hour long going to the locked up for twenty three hours each day you come out for half hour shower and a half hour break i never bit of allah person. at that time i was treated like one of them were thrown persons in the world i remember going into the cell 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 this is an experience that it is going to make your break you are going to come out a better person are you going to come out of worship person than you were before you went in. being in a hole is mirrors and i wouldn't wish on anybody. but you locked up for twenty three hours i think you can do it. my words my 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 and only there when i realize who are actually was and when i kept hearing that because sand i am at my door that i am at my lowest point. and. i think right there and i realized i had reached my lowest point to life and that the only on the way for me to go from here. another crime another criminal a country that already have fed up with me it was rights politicians focus on often a simple crackdown the reason the criminal justice system isn't working is that we're not sending enough people in jail and keeping there long enough that people are saying in a very general way that they were to lock these rascals up and keep them there for a long cut during the one nine hundred eighty s. there was a major shift in the congress and in state legislatures a 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 the effect of 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 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

she made good grades high school that we went to was seventh through twelfth grade i was kind of the little tagalong sister. me and my brother were friends and i mean my sister were friends just kind of watch sure she was. always really friendly always 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 ideal a child. at 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 got to pursue a modeling career consider and my mother says to to get you know i mean ralston to

dallas my gosh now. no you know. what she's thinking what's she going to do and 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 sandy it was well read well traveled well educated graduated stanford law school i had gone to princeton theology school so it was just 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 when every drink 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. sandy. but 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 hadn't been in dallas in over a year so of the only thing i knew to do was to book a flight go 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. i'm. very thin details but said that sandy had been arrested for manufacturing ecstasy and that he wanted to redeem an attorney for him there in 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 germany. seven months after sandy has been arrested and i pull into the garage of my car is 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's isn't somebody that i really want to confide in so i add it wasn't very long after that that my lawyer explained to me exactly what it is that my prosecutor wanted they wanted her to wear a wire. and try to employ a your people people she didn't even know and. she what she refused to do it she said i don't know they speak on that i'm not going to do this and this prosecutor said you need. to cooperate or will ruin your life. traditionally in the foreign policy with the assistance of the legacy media to find an immediate threat for a foreign military intervention or coup their aim is been to manufacture public support today it's different with virtually no public. the target of

a forced regime change the probably change has a deplorable record. in. washington threat of sanctions as a stick to beat countries into recognizing venezuela's opposition leader. of the fifty four countries have now recognized. interim president about. inclusion of the right. man who's a work in syria made him a media darling stripped all of his u.k. citizenship over alleged links to jihad.