as about those they perceive them as destitution is completely divorced from human 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 to me willingness to. too many inmates in not enough space. in their crime another. hundred already have and i'm with the start of. the race an explosion in america with all of this. isn't going or just want to. die. right or is it our time to go on. 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 in jail. the most important thing. is 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 baskets be creative. these are good gifts to your children. the families are punished right along with. the 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. in that camera. and 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 anytime is to take responsibility for.

this little. episode with everybody. is going to go. on to do the best they can to stay out of this please. mr gold. i'm glad this. been away from. this once you've gotten good numbers can we be with. the. next chapter. from one thousand nine hundred 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 per one 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 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 one 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 for 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 for. the federal budget then send it out to state health checks by realizing the need for money to deal with this problem i am glad that in this year ministration we have increased the amount of money for handling the problem of being green frog seven it will be six hundred million dollars this year more money will be needed in the future virtually everybody thought the drug war was the number one issue and so you had politicians of 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 middle homes we used to always run up and down the hallways of course it was the projects so sometimes 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 scale that time was hard all the way because my son was doing drugs my nephews was to my 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. when in their lives but there was not the not to do about it to change their lifestyle. was it. after my brother passed away i kind of withdrew from a lot of things i don'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 him and then within the hallway and i used to be a hopeful monitor and i was stationed right in front of his locker so when i knew that he was coming to his locker i would put my he is up in like black with weight . so he would have to say excuse me something in at that we started talking we got to know each other you know at the walk in our home many times in and out over our 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. 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 were another house and they were two years old

i was pretty much the end there because my mom was on drugs she knows she knew i was there she really didn't have a problem with a but i kind of started you know living this day with morgan at a very young age. by the time i was sixteen seventeen hour. it's fully engulfed in a drug game and if it is only was so big it is only seven point five square miles so a lot of rumors a start as 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 trade narcotics and they started watching me and follow me around the stuff like that and then 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 they locked her up and i got a phone call saying and you know your mother was locked up and they want you to turn itself in. so i visually i turned myself in a seventeen

a let my mother go and i first time me ever going until i went to you found because i was an eighteen i was always the juvenile we waited still in high school and we missed the prom. badge or worse when i got out i remember the detective telling me that you know as soon as i turned eighteen and it was going to come back in me 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 into a dull facility. most historians look at the origin of the war in 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 his 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 a far more user center operations major operations and. 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 wife 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 that you change your life around. here one of the things that she said that 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 skip and then it went right back out into the streets. i remember going to new york on the cob 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 a 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 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 have to try to get all the charges pushed together give me one senses because too much time and hopefully straight not

my life but i remember pacifically the judge said this in just telling me. element to tom loser. and he said tracy hughes convicted in one thousand nine hundred 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. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that the ball different clubs on one hand. it is the logical to search the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing. salt or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not three or else you think i was going to go.

by the way ways of that slide here. this is a period of sort of full scale fist push but if. you might. need it it was my dog of. losing his its appeal. for the good of him yet that all laong solicitor got it would put me on the management of that it's a. gut feeling you'll know paul. went on but well it was pretty but craig was a. pro it used to which could go out on general but i thought. near and dear to me was clearly you know did you storm the lead here for my look down from moods or basher doing the clue trick of crafters snares in.

the direction to a judge to sentence can be done in two ways as you say a judge. hears 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 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 sentence where no matter how my. honor 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 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 which congress sent to president when he was five years me to the minimum five grams of crack cocaine a grams like this we. gain years minimum is fifty grand of crack cocaine that's like the weight of a kid or 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 population was thirty six thousand. now it's well over two hundred girls this is a growth that no one could have imagined mass incarceration in the u.s. is really unique. human history there is no democratic nation that's ever tried to have such a mess social experiment as we don't incarcerate should we have more prisoners than any other country in the. 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 we went 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. 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 fem up three members of the family viewed it . and we ask what were the ages of the children who saw it should put just want to put six. she says extremely meaningful for the daughter of the mother who is of course. she loved that. we all did. and this one said our what in the message you mean to your family to know their family was ok that's a huge part these children want to know that their families have had their mom or dad so ok. this is the soldier told us they do know that in three years either of you seen. this show so lives in our group believe ratio here is that you've done

three. dozen sure folks just very good enough to join the phone you want to listen to family love done show me feel you to fold has been me. the role of a lot of this town these last three or four years going to law. school to say the. very first. they said just me to 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 break i know a bit of olive person. at that time i was treated like one of them were thrown persons in the world i remember going into debt say oh 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 know 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. be in the whole of this mirrors and you know i wouldn't wish on anybody. were you locked up for twenty three hours i think you can do is. my words about a grandmother just kept playing over and over again i'm on mine. and those words with the guy i was going to buy me my dog and. you know what i realize who are which really was what i kept hearing because they and 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. i know that crime and other

criminal kind of thing that already fed up with the 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 in jail and keeping there long enough that people are saying 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 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 . only it was born in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and she was very very shy. by the task that in high school people can sat it in or 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. i had what i consider an idyllic childhood and some point when i'm in college i mean guy that works for south west 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 lived to dallas my gosh no you know mom what's was she thinking what 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 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 why i consider to be a dual personality you know and that this other character would emerge whenever he drank. 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 am a sadly saying. 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 huge told me that he was going

to europe and that i never heard anything for a while word got back to me that he'd been arrested. i hadn't been in dallas in 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 he had been arrested for manufacturing ecstasy and that he wanted to return to turning 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 i 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 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. 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 have it wasn't very long after that that my lawyer explained to me exactly what it is that my prosecutor want and they want 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

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