matt delisi is from iowa.the ranking member represents iowa, and the ranking member hae asked that the professor testify first is a chance to hear his r constituents testimony before just returned to his work within the finance committee.order a so without objection will go oua of usual order and begin with professor delisi believers ask all the witnesses to please stand and be swornpl.- [witnesses were sworn in] thanyou. >> thank you, and please be seated. professor delisi is a professor and coordinate of criminal c justice studies with the centera for the study of violence at iowa state university. is the editor in chief of the juice justice and the author of nearld two and 50 scholarly articles ia and received a follow-up or froo academy of cruel justice sciences and as a member of thed american association for the advancement of science and association for psychological science and would like to make any further recognition of professor delisi?>> you he saidi >> i gt uess you said all but io say welcome. >

professor delisi is from iowa. the ranking member represents iowa and has asked that the professor testifies first so they can hear their constituent's testimony first. we will go out of the usual and order and begin with the professor. let me first ask of the witnesses and to affirm the testimony given before the committee will be the whole truth? >> thank you, and please be seated. the professor is a professor and coordinator of criminal justice studies with the center for the study of violence at iowa state university. he is the editor in chief of a journal and has received a fellow award from the capital of -- the academy of criminal , and would yous like to make any further recognition of the professor? >> you said it all, but i do say welcome to you. >> please proceed and then we go to the director and down the line. >> thank you for this opportunity. although reducing the costs of the o.p. is important, the policy recommendations neglect the anti-sociology of criminal defenders and recidivism that would resu

offenses and violent offenses and their history, as professor -- in theironed history, as professor delisimentioned. we need to be much more granular and much more careful about this. >> let me ask representative tilliey and secretary wetzel. are you comfortable that the tools you have used meet those concerns? >> yes. >> so, it's doable? >> i would concur. >> very good. i ask unanimous consent, which i will achieve since i am the last one here -- [laughter] that two articles be added to the record. one is a "new york times" article or opinion piece, rethinking crimes -- life behind bars." the other is by our corrections director. the record of this hearing will remain open for one additional week for any further questions or testimony that anybody wishes to offer. let me once again thank each of the witnesses for coming and lending your expertise and, in the case of chairman tilley and secretary wetzel, you're very long and well-earned personal veryience in this -- your long and well-earned personal experience in this area. i think that what you've done politically to make these changes h