a shocking new number was released today and it deserves our undivided attention 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 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. 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. to pay 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 prison system and come up with something for these kids. in that camera. and that they can look at 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've really taken responsibility which is huge and that's

a first step in recovery if any. any time is to take responsibility for. but even with. this. readiness of everybody that. i was going to go. on to do the best they can to stay out of this belief. some misguided olav i'm glad this criticism have been the way. this was you guys know the numbers can we be would. love a. nice chap. from one thousand and twenty 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 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 four 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 the one nine hundred seventy this all changes so that by now the rate of incarceration issue why just over seven hundred one hundred three requests 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 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 the states helped by realizing the need for money to deal with this problem i am glad to hear mr ministration we have increased the amount of money more heavily in the problem of dangerous drugs seven it will be six hundred million dollars this year more money will be needed in the future 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 them 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 roll 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 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 habanero and seeing all the blood because they left all the blood still in the street the traumatic experience of losing my only brother in that truck accident i know it had done something to me you know drugs from our skate that time was hard all the way because my son was doing drugs my nephews was to hundreds my

niece was doing drugs my sisters with doing drugs and it was like an epidemic. of drug abuse. and i cannot explain. i cannot explain my feelings because i 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. how was it. after my brother passed away a kind of withdrew for 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 him and that was 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 way. so he would have to say excuse me or something in at that we started talking we got to know each other you know at the home many times in and out over our house. you know my home. was a really a home compared to her house margaret grew up with her parents before the parents all 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 law 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 they were two 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 a but a kindness started you know liveness there were more than a very young age. by the time i was sixteen seventeen hour. it's fully engulfed in a drug game and it is only was so big it is 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 them with 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 and 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 near and i was i think i just turned seventeen and um 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 yourself in. so i visually i turned myself in a seventeen a let my mother go and first time me ever going in june i went to you found because i was an eighteen i was always the juvenile still in high school and we missed the prom. badge was 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 give 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 reward 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 as 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 of far more users in iraq ration is major operations and. we started treating sick people people who were addicted to drugs might remember 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 jason will always pray for you and i'm going to pray to you change your life around. the one of the days 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 i 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 the car. and i remember being stopped at a light and get now a switch with 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. to lower that you know we just had to try to get all the charges pushed

together give me one sense is that because too much time and over the street not my life i remember pacifically the judge said this in just telling me. element to tom loser. and he said tracy you could break the one nine hundred eighty you know 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 chore for you. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. want to be rich. and she going to be prosperous like that before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. first city.

tax rises financial survival guide stacey let's learn a salad fill out let's say i'm not sure i get any earthly response based on the fight well street spot thank you for helping. the story that's true. that's slavery. is it folks go through a period of sort of the old i suppose it's just bush but it. would be you know well jim i knew it needed it was my go to the. moon is its appeal to supple of the good of the team you know that all you want to go to the brink of the

management of that it's a team that mean that you'll know paul. enough well it was pretty good way to lose a room what used to do which could be oh i'm going to be on long monologue but i come in. here and you know we're hearing you're learning you know good you storm the lead here so i'm i look down from moods or bears are doing the fluids you're coconspirators some are going to be. the direction to would join to say. can be done in to wish you 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 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 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 into let sensing legislation so 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 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 what congress sent to president bush was five years minimum five grams of crack cocaine grams like sweet. 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 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 us is really unique in human history there is no democratic nation that's ever tried to have such a mass social experiment as we've done that incarceration and we've got more prisoners than any other country in the ruling over by rate and numbers i mean i find it a bit disturbing that we have more prisoners than china and they have a billion more people than we do i don't think it gives people and 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. i had allowed. somebody is a storage area 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 court and 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 the six i was fortunate enough. to make the first parole and i actually served. acts in prison fourteen months on the moon. 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 quit just want to put sex. she says an extremely meaningful for the daughter of the mother who was incarcerated she loved it. 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 i've met their mom or dad so ok wait there's just soul shoulders there to go no it's been three years either of you seen. mr jones looms gravely regime or is that you don't read. those i'm sure folks just very good enough to join the phone anyone else in the family of doug schoen a photo of you to the fold has been me. growth a lot of just on his way through for years going to the last. go.

swan say the. very first. they said is me too one year administrative segregation and administrative segregation is twenty three hour long going to the lock the twenty three hours each day you come out for half hour hour and a half hour. i know a bit of all a person. at that time i was treated like one and were thrown persons in the world i remember going into this i believe maybe if i buy. it was that door close i knew i was going to be there for the next year is this an experience that it is going to make your break you're going to come out a better person are you going to come out of worse a person than you were before you went in and. 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 is. my words my grandmother just kept playing over and over again in my mind and those words with 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 because and i am i thought am at my lowest point. and. i think right there i realized i had reached my lowest point in life and that the only on the way for me to go from here. another crime another criminal hundred already fed up with religious rights politician focus groups in 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 very general way that they all of a 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 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 the sensing laws was not just to increase the sentences that people were exposed to so that 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. he's 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 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 a seventh through twelfth grade and 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 ought to pursue a modeling career consider my mother says to get you know i mean ralston moved to dallas my gosh no you know mom what's worse 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. 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 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. 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 that 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 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 redeem 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 and. 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 it out 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 so i have 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 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 either pull over eight am paraphrasing you now cooperate or will ruin your lives. on the news in the morning.

your total. all your money go to go. to the move for your. dream agreed to pretty should which you must remember that it was just my family were working. there wasn't it was bit you know much worse subjectively good but. it was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy

attack solo down engineer elections manufacture consent and other prince holds according to know on. one set of rules for the rich opposite set rules for. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch rule is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.

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