but then doing individual one to each child throws them a kiss i 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 baskets be creative. these are gifts to your children. the families of punished right along with. the have found people don't think so but the collateral consequences of somebodies incarceration affects not just that 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 that 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 anytime is to take responsibility for. but even with. this little. episode everybody. is going to go. on to do the best they can to stay out of this please. continue to shop for. mr go. grab this christmas spend away from. this once you go. because you know we've been.

yes chad. from one thousand twenty two to one thousand nine hundred seventy this whole half century of american history the rate of incarceration was roughly level or about one hundred ten four hundred thousand. and this is a broad span of our history this is 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 four hundred times 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 disorder changes so that by now the rate of incarceration issue why just over seven hundred and three requests or issue for african-americans is over four thousand four hundred and so you have to wonder how does what she why did this half century of stability get ended with this dramatic increase in incarceration in spades america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse once the federal government decided that we were 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. i realized the need for money to deal with this problem i am glad that in the ministration we have increased. the amount of money for handling the problem of being. seven goal it

will be six hundred million dollars this year more money will be needed in the field and virtually everybody's on 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 it 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 when we moved here we moved you know to malone's we used to always roll up and down the hallways of course it was the projects so some time we will sneak up on the roof which was the top floor twelfth floor and you know look out and of course that was very scary 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 skate that time was hard all the way or because my son was doing drugs my nephews was too many 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 on 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 him and then with a. in the hallway and i used to be a hopeful monitor and out with 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 in our home many times in

and out over at our house. you know my home. wasn't really a home compared to her house margaret grew up with her parents before the parents all the nice decent house great mother great father. 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 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 liveness there were more get out a very young age. by the time i was sixteen seventeen i was fully engulfed in the drug game in britain is only was so big it was only seven point five square miles so a lot of rumors a stylist 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 on 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 that they raided my house i wasn't there but my mother was near and i was i think i just turned seventeen. and they locked her up and i got a phone call saying you know your mother was locked up and they want you to turn yourself in. so i ventured i turned myself in a seventeen eleven mother go and i first time you ever going to joe i went to you found because i was. eighteen i was always those. still in high school and we missed the prom. badge when i got out i remember the detective telling me that soon as i turned eighteen and it was going to come back. and if i didn't straight up my life that first spears would be none compared to other experiences

in jail because then i would be over eighteen and i would be going to a dull 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. nor 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 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 those obviously are far more users than are operations major operations in. we started treating sick people people who were addicted to these drugs one member a member talking to my grandmother and having a conversation with her about my life and how far i had fallen she said to me you know trace it when i always pray for you and i'm going to pray that you change your life around. now one of the things that she said to stuck with me was that 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 scaled down and i went right back out into the streets. i remember going to new york. 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 lie 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 not my life i remember pacifically the judge sits in joe's telling me. now i'm a two time loser. and he said tracy you could bring to the one nine hundred eighty 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 chore for you. traditionally in the foreign policy with the assistance of the legacy media defining 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 debate in his way what is the target of a force for team change the problem is force regime came. has a deplorable record. to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to. have to be right to be cross that's what the four. ten people are. interested in the was a. good. deal.

yes to all this is all the good. direction to 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 in prison and the other. 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 issue or 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 seventeen 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 us 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 which congress sent to president which was five years media 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 kuan 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. it was thirty six dollars. now it's well over two hundred girls this is a growth no one could have imagined incarceration in the us is really unique in human history there's no democratic nation that's ever tried to have such a mess social experiment as we've done that incarceration and we've got more prisoners than any other country in the world and over. numbers i mean i find it a bit disturbing that we have more prisoners from china and they have a billion more people than we do i don't think it gives people enough 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 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 surprise when i went to cork. i had that kind of time marijuana. and i was charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and i got a 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 first parole 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. we fam up three members of the family viewed it. and we ask what were the ages of the children who saatchi put just want to put sex she says an extremely meaningful for the daughter of the mother who was incarcerated she loved that. we all did. and this one went to the message you mean to your family to know their family was ok and it's a huge park these children want to know that their families have had their mom or dad so ok were the sole shoulders there to go no it's been three years either of you seen. mr jones looms very leverage here is that you've done three. dozen sure folks just very good enough to join the phone anyone else in the family

the done show me for go do you to fold has been me. up growth a lot of this town these last three or four years going to the lot. go. swimmin say the. very first. they said is me to go one year administrative segregation and administrative segregation 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. 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. it 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've got to come out a better person are you going to come out of worship person than you were before you went to. being in a hole is mirrors that 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 play it over and over again. and those words with the guy i was going to fire me in my darkest. you know what i realize who are which really was what i kept hearing because saying i am at. my lowest. and. i think right there i realized i had reached my lowest point in life. the only on the way for me to go from here. another crime another criminal a country that already fed up with both reno is right politician focus aleutian

a simple crackdown the reason a criminal justice system isn't working is that we're not sending enough people to jail and keeping there long enough the people are saying very general way that they want to lock these rascals up and people there for a long time during the one nine hundred eighty s. there was a major shift in the congress and in state legislatures have thout 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 eliminate 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. so it didn't mean that discretion it was eliminated from the system it just put the prosecutors in charge. amy was born in nineteen sixty 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 and i was kind of the little tagalong sister and me and my brother were friends and i mean my sister we're friends just kind of watch sure she was. always really friendly only showing nice this is a small town and everybody knows everybody but she got in trouble we'd know about it period she says 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 ought to pursue a modeling career consider my mother says to get you know i mean ralston moved to dallas and my gosh no you know mom wants us but she 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 brad 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.

eight months later we were getting married at the dallas arboretum and all of our family and friends were there and with at that point seemed like a dream come true. there were red flags before we got married there. there were frankly there were red flags all along the way sandy has what i consider to be a dual personality and that this other character would emerge when every drunk 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. who asked sandy. but he wouldn't leave her i just kept saying you know let's be friends let's be friends he wanted to be more so cute told me that he was going to europe and then i never heard anything for

a while the 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 to dallas and 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 fen details but said that he had been arrested for manufacturing ecstasy and that he wanted to reach me turning 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 i 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 destroy my mom's isn't somebody that i really want to confide in and so i have it wasn't very long after that that my lawyer explained to me exactly what it is that my prosecutor want to say wanted her to wear a wire. and try to m.k. other people people she didn't even know and. she what she refused to do it she said i don't know they speak on i'm not going to do this and this prosecutor

said you you're down paraphrasing you now to cooperate or will ruin your lives. i didn't think number one they matter us a little bit one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime in this . eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the old rich. six percent little market thirty percent some with one hundred five hundred three first such a person and this one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers old world. the only number you need to remember one one business show you know bored to miss one and only one but.

i wouldn't make this manufactured consent to stupidity of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round there's only the one percent. we can all middle of the room signal is. the real news is really cold. the maternity town the slums go in and you may never get out some sort of the most of. my

teenage gang rules here. or one of you to move then you're letting my neighborhood go to me because you were through with but. name me will. kill. you. minus a murderer the spirit of. god and now it's looking for the yeah word on the news that as soon as you stand on that melon when nobody knew who. you are you know the monkey in the room communes all i seem. to simply. do like. the.

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