any system that incarcerates people at the rate that we do in our country and our state -- the implications that this has had in minority communities, 70 people -- 70% of the people that we incarcerate -- this is a system based on punitive measures. this indicates that we have to fix the system and that is why i am here today. we have to fix this. >> john ray is a direct question. if you are presented with evidence that the police officers have committed perjury, or if you have this attorney in your office who has hidden evidence in the pursuit of a conviction, will you take action against this? >> we are aware that we're looking at many cases -- with the first homicide -- homicide conviction for this case that was over 20 years old at the office was working on for over one year. and we have the prosecutorial problems in this case. it appears that this was possibly prompted by the police. we believe that this evidence was material, and we decided to read prosecute the case. we have an integrity and it today, and we're looking at a series of cases and convictions. the answer is that i will h

any system that incarcerates people at the rate that we do in our country and our state -- the implications that this has had in minority communities, 70 people -- 70% of the people that we incarcerate -- this is a system based on punitive measures. this indicates that we have to fix the system and that is why i am here today. we have to fix this. >> john ray is a direct question. if you are presented with evidence that the police officers have committed perjury, or if you have this attorney in your office

the enabling of high-tech -- to enable dictatorship to find, apprehend and incarcerate people of faith, the christians, the wiggers, and to destroy dissident movements throughout the world calls out for this legislation so i hope to have this bill out of committee shortly so i thank you for bringing that up. i'd like to thank our distinguished witnesses aagain and without further a' dieu, the hearing is adjourned. this meeting took place as president obama met today with the chinese vice president. in the meeting, president obama reiterated if long-standing human rights issue. expected to become chinese leader defended the communist right's country over the past 30 years and added, of course, there's always room for improvement on human rights, unquote. c-span's facebook page is looking for your yin put into the visit today by china's vice president. he met with president obama this morning at the white house and visits the u.s. chamber of commerce later this afternoon. how important are u.s./china relations? let us know what you think on c-span's facebook page which is at facebook.com

engage the city and county in supporting us and looking at ways to move away from the over incarceration of people and look at ways to reform their behavior. the efforts we have undertaken when george was appointed to the position -- jeff asked him to come to the public defender's office to have a question and answer session, which he did, and i attended with him. we are told that was the first time that had ever happened, and we reciprocated by asking jeff to meet with the district attorneys in our office. we have begun a dialogue that both sides think is very healthy. we have identified a number of issues that we think require further exploration, so we are creating working group's staff by the people from the d.a.'s office and the public defender's office to look at improving things like discovery, which is an important issue, making sure that we have reciprocal discovery and that it is transparent and complete. looking at workers from collaborative courts, looking at solutions besides incarceration, dealing with mental health and behavioral health issues, rather than using the jails as a solut

are we going to arrest and deport and incarcerate people like joseph priestley or are we going to let them write their pamphlets and argue it out in the public sphere so right there he was probably the biggest kind of test of adams true feeling about the alien and sedition and priestley in all this and he was fiercely combustible and thin skinned, adams and this one point decided to bling and he advised his people to not do anything with priestley putative he said he's an old man living out in the woods and his influence is not an atom in this world. which if you look at all the evidence is clear that that wasn't true. he was enormously influential and had the year of the vice president who was up that point pretty much his nemesis. so the whole question about why adams scared priestley is a very interesting one to get my assessment of it based on what i've read and what i've looked at is the personal connection he couldn't bring himself to bring the force of law on this old friend but it's a hard one to call. priestley this spirit and the dodgers this bullet and then several years la

has a serious math and person region problem we incarcerate more people than any other country in the world. if specially. in comparison to other industrialized countries we also have really harsh and harsh sentences more punitive scented the term very minor crimes and a lot of the reason that we have such a large amount of our population in prisons has to do with the war on drugs. in one nine hundred eighty we had a pretty stable prison population that was much lower and compared pretty well with the rest but world today that number has quadrupled. and we have about two point three million people possibly more behind bars that doesn't even include the amount of people we have on probation or parole so on that have to do and about sixty percent of those people are in jail for nonviolent offenses mostly drug offenses so you know carrying marijuana on them or you know cocaine or whatever it may be you know small time dealers let's let's talk about this event today again thirteen different cities around the country took part and here in d.c. protesters actually gathered outside of a well

they do crazy things to people while they're incarcerated. i'd never be able to handle it so i'm going for the death. i have to, cause they're evil. they're too evil to people incarcerated, and they're too evil to people on the cases. they're so corrupt it's not funny. i gotta go down. i have to. that's why i can't say nothin' about self defense on tape or anything. >>but, was it self defense? >>huh? >>was it self defense? >>what? >>was it self defense? >>what? >>was it self defense? >>yes, but i can't tell anybody. never. i have to go down to the execution. they're too corrupt. they-they stick together, hand over fist, hand in glove, man. >>so, it was self-- >>hand over fist, friend i glove. >>so was--was mallory self defense? >>yeah, and so was some others but there's nothing i can do about it. all they do is give me an overturned sentence. they would never do me righteous, you see what i'm sayin'? they'll never do my right. they'll only (bleep) me over some more, so i can only go to the death. >>(security door opening) >>you know i will alw

and perhaps most scandalously, the 7 million people in the incarceration process. ple per 100,000 behind bars. by 2010 that number was 731. according to analysis by a project, that puts us ahead of rwanda, reeling from prosecuting a genocide at 595 people per 100,000. way ahead of other industrialized nations such as pain at 154 and germany at 87. the money states spend on prisons have risen. at six times that of public education. if california emptied its prisons today and sent every inmate to a university of california college, it would save $7 billion a year. every year, an estimated 70,000 rapes take place in america's prisons, more than half of all rapes in the entire nation. and because the majority of rape in america happens behind the walls of the penitentiary, we collectively shrug our shoulders or worse, turn it into a joke. if this were happening in any other population it would be an outrage and scandal. victims of their families would be giving their elected representatives an earful. demanding hearings and action. can you imagine if there were 70,000 r

it's because the prison industrial complex makes so much money incarcerating these people.politicians to keep the laws on the books, i have had the experience of fighting these laws, i have had the experience of going to work with people who cared and finding out that even if the politicians cared, the ones who were in debt to the complex never voted or raise d their voice to change the laws. we know this is a failed drug war. we know people are going to jail and not threatening to our community. we know when they come home, they will be a threat to our community. we have to make a change. >> listen. there's a remarkable amount of logic. that's an increasingly broad basis of support. you have a man sitting next to you who lived his life dealing with these problems. we see what the barriers are. all of these aspects, ben. what is it that we have to do next in order to get not only david more resources, but to truly elevate the necessary pressures toç eliminate the strangle hold the index has taken on our country? >> david is definitely on the right track. we built a grass r

most scandal lousily, the whopping who whopping 7 million people in the incarceration process. 00,000 behind bars. by 2010 that number was 731. according to analysis by a project, that puts us ahead of rwanda, reeling from prosecuting a genocide at 595 people were 100,000. way ahead of other industrialized nations such as pain at 154 and germany at 187. the money states spend on prisons have risen. if california emptied its prisons today and sent every inmate to a university of california college, it would save $7 billion a year. every year, an estimated 70,000 rapes take place in america's prisons, more than half of all rapes in the entire nation. and because the majority of rape in america happens behind the walls of the penitentiary, we collectively shrug our shoulders or worse, turn it into a joke. if this were happening in any other population it would be an outrage and scandal. victims of their families would be giving their elected representatives an earful. can you imagine if there were 70,000 rapes a year in iowa? do you think the candidates would be forced to address i

the tabling of high-tech to enable dictatorship to find, apprehend, and incarcerate people of faith, and to destroy dissident movements throughout the world calls out for this legislation. i hope to have this bill out of committee very shortly. thank you for bringing that up. i would like to thank our distinguished witnesses again and without further ado the hearing is adjourned. >> next week -- next, from the ge conference on manufacturing and competitiveness, remarks from jeff immelt, the governor of colorado, and a senator from ohio. monday the general electric ceo jeff immelt urged congress and the white house to adopt a budget plan along the since involves deficit reduction plan. -- bowles-simpson deficit- reduction plan. he joined a panel of corporate executives moderated by d degree for a discussion on the role of government in the economy. -- david gregory for a discussion on the role of government in the economy. this is one hour and 15 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] clock's ladies and

you just mentioned heroin dealers and being soft on heroin dealers. 80% of people incarcerated for drugs are not big time dope dealers. they are small time drug users. we have a medical problem that we have essentially criminalized. >> bill: that's not true. they are dealers. you don't get sentenced to prison for using e except maybe in some. >> simple possession cases are widespread. >> bill: the statistics are, all right? that you must sell and you must possess a certain amount to be charged with a felony. it's a misdemeanor. you know that. don't try to petty fog the issue. >> i'm not pet fogging the issue. i'm doing just the opposite. this is a serious medical issue that needs to be treated as a medicalized response as opposed to criminalized. >> bill: that means what? doctors go into your house against your will and drag you out and put you in a hospital? is that what they do? >> we don't want to have prisons filled with crack addicts and heroin addicts. >> bill: we don't have treatment. >> i would rather have treatment. >> bill: divert them to treatment almost all the time. tomorrow

a lot of time addressing our own position on the death penalty, our experiences with people who had been incarceratedfamily members, friends of friends. pulling our information. beyond that, we did our own research. to create a picture that resonated with humanity. it is the shape of a house. in this context, it is also small and acts like a cell. i thought that was an interesting play on how these people make these adjustments, half to create home. what is home for these people? the home is their cell. people talk a lot about noise -- very noisy in prisons. that is interesting to me. looking at the communication level, the rise of frustration of being caged, wondering, where does redemption fit into the equation here? [singing] i think both of us really believe the death penalty is wrong, and is flawed for many reasons. the list is as long as my arm -- about several others. we feel this is important for both of us, personally, to participate in the debate of this issue in a way that we can help people frame it for a conversation. >> [roll call] >> just as a reminder, we would ask that you turn off a