if you furthered the conspiracy one step you're guilty for everything in the conspiracy no matter when you entered the conspiracy it could have been on the last day. because i had collected some money on i technically was guilty of conspiracy. and held responsible for everything that everybody else had done and my sentence my twenty four years was established based on the sum total of all the acts the thing that sandy had manufactured that's where my years came from my years did. things that i did came from three point seven million tablets of x. to say that he had manufactured puts me on the chart at this lab just twenty four years that's how a judge sentences you based on a chart the way the sentencing laws apply to conspiracy. being subject to being punished for all the conduct that everybody in the conspiracy has been

involved in. so the idea of proportional punishment can be lost if this triggers a mandatory sentence to add insult to injury while i'm incarcerated for twenty four years he comes back to the us and goes before the same judge the sentence me to twenty four years and he got three years probation because he cooperated and snatched out everybody. the person who comes in early and cooperates usually ends up with a lower sentence than the person in the conspiracy who walks up two days before the trial and tender simply that sentence will be different even though they may be situated the same it's just plain different and those are the yangs in the of the sentencing process that the court has not a whole lot of control over and the u.s. attorneys and the prosecuting attorneys have. lower but it does result in

a different sentence when you're facing something like twenty or thirty years. you have people that are are doing things they never thought they would do which is turn in their friends testify against friends sometimes they will even make up. false information to testify falsely against people just in order to get themselves out from under the terrible legal situation they are in the pressure to provide information is huge and coercive and un-american. but that's the way mandatory minimums are set. my mother calls me and she said well i need to tell you something. and i'm thinking the worst just while i may is featured in our magazine she's been in prison for a number of years and why that was such a catalyst was suddenly we had something tangible to hand to people the community

found out and my brother got involved and my father and senator bumpers and senator pryor and everyone started actually looking into the case and saying well what could have possibly happened here this just doesn't seem right my story in case started gaining momentum and we got i think up to fifteen politicians wrote letters supporting my clemency when i read it i was i was sympathetic. because i thought. that her husband was the primary driver of the offense she was clearly had a subordinate role needs. and she was caught up in the way of these conspiracy laws that are extremely broad ranging and you don't have to do very much to be to get yourself stuck in a case like i went to my case managers office and walked in the door and she said

she was in a frenzy and she said you know where are you going to release to and i was like what do you mean and she said were you going to live when you get out of prison and i said wow i guess what my parents for a while and she said because i've got to set you up on probation and i said why. i just said you're going home. and. i couldn't process it i was just right. and. my reaction was. i think i was sitting down so i stood up and i said they're going to start and i sat down and i said what do you mean and she said you've gotten executive clemency president clinton has ordered you out and you have to be out today by five o'clock the president had granted her petition and she was told that afternoon and evening they let her out that day it was really great because we always got bad news in there nobody ever got. it was really nice to have all the women walk me

across the compound and there was that moment in the compound of victory but it was really hard to because you have to leave you have to leave so many people behind. we can confidently say today that we are finally beginning to win the war against now is the time to show drug users that we mean to reach our goal of a drug free generation in the united states you will be put away. the truth as stated by the nixon administration is to create a drug free society. that's what it's all about why we spend the billions of dollars and incarcerate millions of people. is to create a drug free society. and we've been at this now for a good nar for forty years trillions of dollars into it no wind in china really and

when a reasonable person says how much closer are we to creating a drug free society. you begin to realize that perhaps we've been given a mission here that is impossible to achieve we saw a violent crimes go through the roof as these. criminal gangster organizations fought one another so we're seeing that type of phenomenon today in our major metropolitan areas like los angeles the crips against the bloods and of course there are endless violence that we're seeing in mexico and in places like south america as these very rich powerful cartels fight one another richest man in the country was ok he controlled if you tried to get in his market he would kill you there were also kinds of sub factions they trying to to manufacture it in their bathrooms and still it was once in a teary he didn't know what it was cut with sometimes that indifference people who drink this group of people who treated you could cirrhosis kids would die in the

crossfire it sounds all too familiar to this exactly was happening on the streets today in the united states when it comes to getting violence in the drug one of the problems that we have a drug prohibition is so different of a business you make so much money little time and the difference between arresting someone for dealing drugs and arresting someone for committing rapes. when you arrest a rainbow for someone committing burglaries you know one stop. the burglary stop when you arrest someone for dealing drugs dealing drugs doesn't stop on that corner you just create a job opportunity for someone else to come in and unfortunately when a job is filled viciously some fighting sioux name. people. the emphasis over criminal justice system should be on violent offense. so this is where most people are concerned about. the one murderers and britain did they want murders and rapes and they want these people taken out of the community and locked

away in prisons or communities can be saved i don't know what to come out just as one of the be like without the war on drugs. my only experience of it has been during the war on drugs. and i started family in one thousand nine hundred ninety one war on drugs really heated up in the eighty's kept rolling through the ninety's you know sort of started tapering off and then to thousands but it's still alive and well it's like pounding funda of anti drug is styria in one thousand nine hundred six we must do something anything and that meant grasping at straws and not looking ahead at what the costs are going to be or what might be effective while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake it was. counterproductive and i wanted to put my

energy into ending it and so in january one thousand nine hundred eighty nine i started the criminal justice policy foundation. and that is been the opportunity for me for the last twenty five years to. mobilize different kinds of strategies to end drug prohibition a lot of it has been through other organizations i helped start families against mandatory minimums and my office i'm still very active with students for sensible drug policy. and with law enforcement against prohibition. and so a lot of my work is advocacy. strategizing you know what are the ways to change drug policy that before from the justice system. there are. countless numbers. people who are in prison for conceivably long sentences for being minor minor offenders in the drug trade

these are just a handful of you know files from families against mandatory minimums where these people you know change life sentence. in l. clarke thirty five years timothy tyler life sentence. sure on the jones life sentence. this is not an aberration this is the life blood this is the typical case this is the typical clarence aaron who's out numerous cases i mean these are all excessively long cases these are you know you see colombian drug lords here you see mexico guzman you seen the mexican drug lords here.

yes well this is how the. closely. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going

to do next. different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not to give you. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you think i was going to go. by the way ways and such like here. can socialism bring about a radian future a growing number of voters seem to think so what do these voters and some members of congress mean by socialism free stuff for all the state controlling the means of production no more. why are so many falling out of love with capitalism.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they've matter us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be old the rich eight point six percent world market close to thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and this one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember in one one business show you know board the myth the one and only boom but.

the long haul that not. i was so glad to to start to work my way out of the prison. so going the clinton house was a halfway house you were half way old but you were still open. so i got the clint house always already has so much bears in dorm roof it had a beautiful background. i called my old boss so he was in a halfway house at the time and i think someone i don't know what company. and

rufus and his mother came to me in x. we would out by him appear shoes that he needed to do his group and and he just blossom he just blossomed from there i was so i was always there i was always there hour early before anybody else get there. so in essence i was home going i was hungry to work i was hungry to be free. and have the ability to change my life around so all those stains. made me a good employee in a mentally dismayed is minus in saying that he was going to go in for you know go into business for yourself in the ass out all starting i just really felt that i had what it took to be entrepreneur and to be successful. so i quit my job and i was fully fledged into business and i believe i froze year business i made about thirty some thousand dollars or more for a share. i remember

a vest i'm back into the business i'm buying tools a mile ladders so i'm growing the business or take my second year i read about he's a. third year i did about one a solo thousand some stall he was surely progressing so now i'm up to half a million dollars next in a moment to say i want to thousand miles. in early two thousand. and two thousand my folly will over the million dollar more. that while one zero i never thought that i would call a million dollar business. a person has to have a dream. you know they have to want to do better for themselves you can bring a person out of prison. and they can have nothing and they can make something of themselves and that's what they want. when you lived a certain way for so long and came as far as he. eats. way.

dad needs to be put out here. because a lot of people don't know how to break to change from the street scene that's saying get off only you. want to do. to be all that bull of war. for me is to be that beacon of hope. no matter where you come from the what you've done you can because the same they sold drugs on. directly across the street for my office used to sit a bar called the night light. sold drugs out that door for a number of years inside and out so they have my bills almost became before and then to show people that yes i was that once drove up and down the street and sold drugs and did all that stuff there i'm now a changed person and i'm now somebody that they could expire to also.

executive clemency was a bittersweet victory to be honest right there because it didn't take me very long . after i got out and the excitement exhilaration wore off that i realized that that. i may be free. so many of my friends and other people aren't and. as long as they're not then i'm not really so i started the can do foundation which is clemency for all nonviolent drug offenders to try to continue to help some of the women i left behind i did time with danielle barbara mary richardson and they've all done well over twenty years these are all guys who are serving life these are for pot he's for l.s.d. . i have just got back from washington d.c. i was fair for a on a fundraiser about the whole clemency project that's happening and in fact i took. all these guys to the front in front of the white house and anyway there's several

that i stood out in front of the white house advocating for their clemency. when i started practicing law almost forty years ago there about a half a million people in prison. and today there are two point three million people in prison billions of dollars have been poured into the prison expansion not only of the federal prison capacity but billions have been sent to say local governments to expand their present capacity and during the one nine hundred ninety s. we were building on average a prison a week and as soon as these prisons were built it's important to emphasize that they were immediately filled up with first ners and even today many of our prison facilities are operating beyond their design capacity if you compare in the u.s. with other industrialized nations canada or western europe we lock up are citizens

at five to ten times the rate of those three of those other nations but we have consciously chosen to have a much more unity new production. then other comparable nations that have the next was only see him as a cursory. seems to me though i. got a job. and. a lot. here and. there shall. pass from their parents children's lives and going to. marry and conditional and. loving in. just because. i'm ours. dread jellicoe one two six thirty seven zero six my first encounter of the of the prison systems are pretty young. lifestyle drugs you know star early the

thing with me was i got out february i think it was two thousand and twelve within three months i got out of a macor five spades zero. i start my own business i got a vehicle had tags had a license and. an october that year i decided smoke some weed. i thought the worst case scenario if i go to the probation office is that i have to go to a program where i'd be urine test regularly or go to a meet well the reality fact is dirty urine is a violation and probation officer i had was new and she was a stickler for the law and she violated me their own spot i wept like a little child i couldn't believe i had all made all this work on my i have all this to show you look at all this i have i've done it she's that you've done a lot but you still using drugs and it's against the law. to get sentenced to four years for during your analysis. it's a lot watching your children grow up in issue in waves and say by daddy as you're

walking out of a business it is just it doesn't get easier you don't stand and as you get older you think you become more custom in this but it never under any circumstances gets easier. it is how you do on. c.n.n. . i want to say thank you for spending as much time as you do at the halles watching everybody all mobs at work i know you miss out on playtime i know you miss out on a lot of banks so i just want to start off by saying that thank you how do you wrestling. i'm glad you're sticking with it i know you're going so just like i said try to stick with it and you know by year the manor house did the best you can take out the trash drive things you manners i love you so very proud of you know those

wonderful. varies from seven to thirteen really grown up. and i'm sorry i'm not there to guide you as much as i'd like. to turn out pretty good and i'm very very proud. oh i don't know i'm sorry my baby. i love your audition very recently just got. so very proud and i know you worked hard to tell me how you were doing when. you're strong so friends. and i. want you know i love you here i miss you very much oh here's what i miss you and there is a bunch of moon that i went through it is more moments or any time you hate me you miss me there's a there's a gaping same things mom when she was. i love you and i miss you all and

i hope to see you soon and that he loves you. it's. the fourth of july. because of the fact that so many of us have lived for thirty years in this box of mandatory sounds and federal sentencing guidelines and you know the drug war we have to start breaking out of that box and thinking about a world away that out the outside of those confines if you're interested in reducing the injustice and to see mass incarceration you have to go to the root of the problem which is too many laws on the books and what is the primary problem there as far as prioritizing which was ought to go first top of my list is the drug laws because i think we're in another situation where it's very similar to the days of alcohol prohibition where the government has just declared millions and millions

of people to be criminals and that's what they've done with the stroke laws they're danger of looking at one outrageous case after another. and. want you to the broader perspective. they are so many excuses and these are. the typical this is the system it is flawed leon just to understand it is so wasteful it's so counterproductive it's so evolution one and asked to be why does it continue. why are we going to be able to spot. romney more efficiently on the policy to it's been going on since many evenings mom want to know so many of the movement is meant to be his major. that is a very deeply disturbing indictment in the middle east to waste so much treasure.

and that in a society where our credos are about liberty and justice for all. of

us are no more considered and the most to be against india encouraging animosity among to its national against any. one of its neighbors as skateboard is right this is where pakistan is very different and. then india right now if they go on this trajectory unfortunately even not being able to be responsible players in this region the speed in the stuff and for far too long because of this ongoing conflict between these two giants in the region. the maternity turns. go in and you may never get out some sort of the most of.

my teenage gang rules here. don't want to move then you let the wind. blows through with it but. the navy will be. minus. zero. and now it's looking for the yeah. and melanie when. you when you. look even. musatov i see. is absolutely no doubt that pakistan has a such and. proven track record off sponsoring terrorism insurance agent something

so just should. we have not received any evidence then we also were going to then we offer investigation of any kind we have more heard anything about. financial survival. housing bubble. oh you mean there's a downside to artificially low mortgage really don't get carried away that's cause report. for. the u.s. says the fight against islamic state is far from over as terrorists and their families leaving their last stronghold into syria never to be defeated.

and alleged a cyber attack on a british institute that seeks to counter russian this information is now being investigated by the u.k.'s crime agency despite having no forensic evidence the head of the institute already insists that russian intelligence is to blame. which makes then this is the time our assessment that he thought we'd go further and be proved to you.