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incarceration rates especially black incarceration rates have soared regardless of when the crime is going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole. so what explains the sudden explosion in incarceration, the birth of a penal system unprecedented in world history? it's not crime and crime rates. the answer is the war on drugs and to the get tough movement, the wave of punitive nests that washed over the united states. drug convictions alone, just drug convictions accounted for about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison system in more than half of the increase in the state prison system between 1985 and 2000 the period the greatest expansion of our prison system. you get a sense of how large the contribution the war on drugs has made to mass incarceration consider this. there are more people in prisons and jails today, just for drug offenses than were incarcerated for all reasons in 1980. now most americans violate drug laws in some form in their lifetime, most do but the enemy in this war has been racially defined. not by accident. this drug war has been

when you spend time in prison as anyone who has been incarcerated or work with those who are incarceratedyou know that prison -- implicitly or exquisitely, we often do not recognize which the arbitrary nature of circumstance inevitably takes the probe -- the trajectory that that person ends up on. being outside of prison for me was a daily reminder about the arbitrary nature of the family i was born into in the schools i got to attend. it could have very easily been me on the other side of the bar. we have to recognize that most of us have been put in a position where trajectory of our invitingute starts more felons into its midst. the main reason is that we are not all that different from you. i was encouraged by a few things that the governor said. one common criminal justice reform is vital. mess.stem is an absolute you cannot believe that america is the land of the free on one hand and at the same time know that we incarcerate more of our citizens than any other country on the planet. it is a system where the longer we send people to prison, the less likely they are to get out doesomm

you can discover things about the incarcerated first, and also the incarcerated is. trying to find the hidden resources of this population. you can probably discover that 1.7 million of them would be a lot less, after looking into, using technology to get insight into this. you could also discover, you know, my wife watches on tv, america's got talent religiously, i bet there would be huge resources there, that could be put to work. >> thank you. that is interesting. that, she helped make sure had talks in prison, which is programming that you do not often see, "ted" talks. >> to your point about talent, i was amazed by the waste of talent. there were some people that have circumstances -- had circumstances being different, or had they gone mental health treatment or drug and alcohol treatment, they would not be sitting in prison today. they would be out being artists, lawyers, doctors, these are people who are no different from me and you, they just got caught making mistakes, many of them when they were young. i get that a lot, i have had several judges, prosecutor

-- incarcerated. it has been embedded in all of us to shape these business decisions. these are small decisions that many people make that end up contributing to recidivism rates. >> i like numbers. the first is to properly treat. as a resident woman on a lot of criminal justice panels, it is important to talk about women who were incarcerated, because it often goes undiscussed. of women who are incarcerated have experienced a traumatic event areas a tremendous event means they were -- dramatic event. event means they suffered from substance abuse, or have experienced or suffered from some sort of under -- mental illness. this is what i mean when i talk about the systems being conflicted. now we need to have a conversation about health care. when we don't properly treat prison, -- women a end up in the circumstances. -- that they end up in these circumstances. arenow that white women much more likely to be -- received treatment when they are discovered to have these things, and women of color are more

to produce a labor force so of course we see the relationship between incarceration and capitalism incarceration and money making and also incarceration as a system of racial control and or a system of class control that is exploited again and again around the world and it is once again it's an enormously tragic and terrifying thing to see this same pattern played out globally with over ten million people incarcerated three million of them held in jails which means they're in pretrial detention they have not been convicted of anything i think. two or three or thereabouts thirteen the moment. formally and legally finally ending slavery but it has a. loophole which is you can still be a slave in the united states if you've been convicted of a crime. a mind saying that bluntly like that is that an exaggeration and b. . how is that influencing our criminal justice system and how have other countries . adopted in a way is the prior to adopting our criminal justice system they never would have considered such a thing. it once again it's not made if it's not exaggeration the thirteenth amendment elimin

i was incarcerated for that drug use. no one ever said you're not a bad person, you're a sick person. you have trauma. i remember going in front of the judge and laying it all out for him and asking for help. that judge sent me to prison for two years. and over and over and over again. when i reached santa monica that was just a lucky break. had i not gotten that break i don't know where i would be or what could have happened. you know, since then i have committed and dedicated my life to helping women end the pain, suffering, trauma, abuse of incarceration. yes, i left the prison and i said to the guard i'm going to get a job and i'm going to get it together. and he replied to me, only job you're going to get is in prison. there are no jobs out there for you. i will keep your bed because you'll be back. >> how did that make you feel? >> it hurt. it hurt to hear him say that, but it hurt even more to understand the challenge that laid in front of me trying to make a successful reentry with no support, no resources, no i.d

the value of reasonable accommodation for those were incarcerated. on one side we have these values, the upside we have religious affiliations and ideologies and beliefs that may be a poster seem to be opposed at times to the system that speaks to protect it. let me give you an example. if i, as an american, this is not my believe, but if i were to say i believe it is wrong for any american to have access to firearm regardless of what type it is, i believe that all firearms should be banned, this is a belief which goes against a core constitutionally protected right. however, my adopting this belief does not forfeit my right to be protected by those other constitutional rights that are afforded to me. the question then becomes, is protecting beliefs and values that are not normative or not popular, if we do so are we going against our own values in favor of another value system? those who we see as conservative or extreme? will we protect those rights and to protec practice those in the confines of american law, does that mean we are enabling illicit

incarceration is incarceration is incarceration. and people need to follow the rules. absolutely no alcohol. no drugs. >> seems like every time i'm trying to do the right thing to do better, it's -- a rock just falls right in front of me and i can't go no further. it's like i'm stuck right there. >> lohden is moved to a fresh arrest dorm. a special housing unit for women newly booked into the jail. she will remain until a judge decides whether to return her to home incarceration or make her serve the rest of her sentence in jail. but lohden seems determined to make an impression. >> that's my bunk. >> yeah, it's mine now. you snooze, you lose. there ain't no bunk assignments in [ bleep ] jail. get that [ bleep ] right. >> hey, come back out here. >> they own bunks around here? >> come back outside. >> i'm good. >> come on, come on. we're going to go out here -- >> excuse me? excuse me? excuse me. >> i said i'm sick, and i've got to be on the bottom bunk. >> okay, that's fine. but i didn't think the jail, nobody owns no bunks around here. [ bleep ]. >> we thought she wa

the world of incarceration, it is an interesting one. we have people in our societies that commit crimes. and then when we believe that we have the right person, we then put them away in our prison system. hopefully, we got the right person. what is consistent though is that these people, that this population of people that they are stored away for years on end. and what we don't always consider at that time is that this population of people, they will become returning citizens. they will be coming back into society. so at the point that we realize that, it raises two questions. one question is how will this person be when they come back into society. and for all these years that we stored them away, secondly, what was their developmental process throughout that period of time that they were away? so when you think about this, if a person is successful when they come back into society, a lot of that does have to do with the support that they receive when they come back out to society. but a larger part of that has to do with how they wer

mass incarceration was created in 1865.i am wondering in terms of education.a program, what kind of program would you see for the mentoring piece? what kind of education, skills, maybe a network they would need in order to help them remove the external transport in terms of what you do as an artist when you combine black literature and music and lyrics of what people know that sort of thing. what program would you see being developed that would educate young people? in terms of you know their journey on the outside. you know combining that. because he did inside. so how would he do when they're outside? >> instead of reinventing the wheel i would let my organizations that are already up and running bring - mo is going to bring the artistic expression and creativity is a major key for youth development. it helps them to develop, it helps them tap into their voice, it helps them to validate who they are. self-expression helps them validate each other. that creative piece for me with the writing in the music you know the visua

think about mass incarceration coming in the 80s 90s, so many people in prison, states cutting budgets, essentially warehousing hundreds of thousands, millions of people in the us, what religious and faith-based groups do is say we can take social provision, we can do the work of the state, do it for free, we are volunteers and argue that they can do it better and more effectively, a lot of faith-based groups run groups like ged, college, mental health, drug addiction, trauma counseling, violence support that the state used to do and one and in spent 36 years in angola prison in louisiana and he said to me people would say when prisoners became religious they would be very skeptical, the ultimate can't. everyone gets religion. now what has changed is politicians see this as rehabilitative theme, his comment was it is just windowdressing, on the same problem. when i say faith-based, a lot of them are mostly conservative christian groups because churches i set up for this kind of work, they are big mega churches with separate ministries and are often the only church is located near priso

you think about mass incarceration. we had a huge spike in the 80s and 90s are basically states cutting budget and essentially we're hoping hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people in the u.s. what religious and faith-based groups to we can do it and they can do it better and more fact every to college, mental health, drug addiction, violence support, that's what the state used to do. one man imprisoned spent 36 years in angola prison in louisiana and he said to me, for years people would say when prisoners became religious, they would be very skeptical. it the ultimate crime. everybody gets through this. now the prison authorities and politicians see that as a legitimate and rehabilitative scheme. his comment to me was it's just window dressing on the same problem. when i say faith is, that's a term of groups used. they are mostly conservative christian groups because the churches are set up for this kind of work. they're often big mega-church is in or located near which are often in rural areas. if you have

a lot of control is taken away from the people who are incarcerated. so, you kind of stew all of that in a pot and you have people that come very susceptible to anti-anti-government, -establishment, anti-authority. this, we should mention a brief story. about 10 years ago i had a an agent of the federal bureau of investigations in my home. and, we had a bit of a debate in our discussion. positive thehad theory they were operating with at that time was that -- what he had posited was the theory they were operating with at that time was that a person who is incarcerated and dense african-american and is muslim has whatfurther, someone refers to as recidivism equates to terrorism. homegrown terrorism. we had this discussion, a debate. i believe i won me debate. on we need to say this -- the ground, real-time, in the prison system, you do not constantly find people who tocribe to -- ascribe radicalized islam ideology if we can utilize that term. you do not find people who ascribe themselves do isis, let's say. right? daesh and such. you don't find that. it

so -- people who are incarcerated. you throw all that in the pot, and you have people that become very susceptible to being antigovernment, this, we should mention a brief story. ago, i had ars an agent of the federal bureau of investigations at my home. we had a bit of a debate and a discussion. the theory that they were operating with at the time was who isperson incarcerated and is muslim-american and is further -- then further ascribes when someone categorizes this person equates to terrorism. we have that discussion and debate. i believe i won that debate. we need to say this. on the grounds, real-time, in the prison system, you do not commonly find people who ascribe islam ideology. you don't find people who they ascribe themselves to isis, let's say. you don't find that. that is not really there and that type of way. the prison system is not producing terrorists in that way. radicalization? is their extremism? yes, that exists. nature ofrt of the what the prison system breeds because it is a very survival listed

i know they were actually hostages involved in efforts to get justice from the state and incarcerate people -- people incarcerated in attica were involved, talk a little bit about what happened in the aftermath? >> part of the extraordinary thing about the story the whole thing starts in 1971, depends five dais and probably the next 20 years the nation doesn't hear a lot about goes on but what's beginning on is the state of new york is filing cases not against the troopers who have killed people and tortured people but against the prisoners for rebelling. so the first thing that happens is criminal trials against the criminals and their attempts to then in turn sue the state or put on hold and can't do anything while the criminal trial proceeds. the hostages are swindled and they are handed the meager checks and told that they'll be -- go ahead just get a little groceries, take care of yourself, we will take care of you, $120 checks, 40-dollar checks meant that they quote, unquote elected a remedy. once they cashed them, they couldn't sue a state. many years prisoners were fighting f

mass incarceration, and tougher crime laws. what do they do on the local level >> they make your neighborhoods dysfunctional. because it makes the family structure dysfunctional. if the family structure, that is the meaning of the neighborhood. of your city. and once you dysfunction that through mass incarceration without any thoughts of the downstream effect of these folks who are incarcerated for low-level crimes. who might often need drug treatment or mental illness treatment and their children see the police as someone who mistreated their father. now the father is not in the home and the mother has to do everything and now the children on the street while she is at work. and begin to criminalize that behavior and now they are in the system. the father gets out but the kids are in the system. it is a cycle but for their lot in life in the social democratic of poverty and schools and all the usual suspects of dysfunctional in our society. the concept to resolve with handcuffs and a pistol. that is not the tools of resolving

mass incarceration and tougher crime laws. what do they do on the local level? >> guest: they make your neighborhoods responsible because if the family structure that is the neighborhood of your city and once you dysfunction that through incarceration or are tough on crime without a thought of the downstream effects of these folks who are incarcerated, who might often need mental illness treatment and see the police as someone who mistreated their father. the mother has to do everything in the children are on the street when she is at work. now they are in the system. it's a cycle but for the social demographics of poverty and poor schools and all the usual suspects of this dysfunctional society. the cops have to resolve out with handcuffs. that's not resolving the complexities in our country and the cops often fail at that. >> host: from your book when the races cops are targeting unarmed black man they skipped over mountains and nouns of issues. get to that one. what are they skipped over? >> guest: and they skipped over the sacrifice that officers have made.

and, as a result of that, i think that when people were incarcerated, i've been told that not one japaneseamily lost their home, and that's an incredible story. robert: that is an incredible story, and certainly not typical, but it certainly worth examining because of what happened. how was it that that happened? mark: i think it's because the relationships in rural california, and they were able to just build these relationships, help their neighbors, and there was a good feeling amongst the locals and the japanese community together. robert: how were they able to help though? how were they able to actually, tangibly help a family keep their property. mark: i can tell you, speaking for my wife's family, when they were evacuated, the jensen family had lived up the street and they moved right into the miyano house, and they took over the egg ranch, and 3 1/2 years later, when the miyano family returned from amachi camp, they found the house to be intact and they found a thriving egg ranch still running, and the jensen family just moved out. and my father-in-law became the best of friends wi

you know how much it costs a day to incarcerate somebody? >> i'm paying you to lock me up. didn't ask -- >> you ain't paying me. you're paying tax dollars. >> you just said i'm taking money from y'all. >> you're taking from metro government. i work for metro government. >> so i got to pay the government for them to lock me up? >> yeah, 'cause the government has to pay for your housing. it has to pay for these bills. >> no, i'm not going to bull county. >> you got to pay $25 a day to be incarcerated. >> that's bull[bleep] though is what i'm saying. you're charging me to be locked up. i didn't ask to be locked up. >> we're not charging you. >> i didn't say, "come lock me up." >> taxpayers voted that, all right? >> i didn't say, "come lock me up. here comes some money. here, i want to be in jail. i got bills on the street to pay. [bleep] i don't like paying the government to lock me up. >> step back in. >> he got kind of mad, but, you know, he's got to deal with the consequences. like lieutenant collins told him, put money on the books illegally. you know, that's his fault. he

than incarceration expansion. so when i'm talking about core strength, i mean when you do have the ability to say in one sentence why we do what we do so that they can filter the decisions that we make as administrators, as educators through that one sentence. you can decide how to spend your time. your time is precious, yeah? you can decide which efforts are worthy and which ones are just time sucks. if you are clear about your core commitment -- are y'all with me? can we go to the next slide? for example, a critical educator might say something like well, there are 2.3 million people who u.s., aboutp in the 69,000 of them are kids. but why is that? why is that? why is that? what else might a critical educator ask? you know i'm educator, i don't know about wait times. one more time. where did we fail? absolutely. thank you. absolutely. who is contributing to this problem? who is getting paid from this problem? how are the lines drawn by race, by gender, by class with regard to this 2.3 million people? lots of que

we don't incarcerate people woman they don't need to be incarcerated and that we now know that it's not the length of the a prison sentence that makes us safer. it's what we do with people and the treatment we provide for them that takes us safer. so that's really why i do what i do. >> i'm sorry for the person as the last question. i hope we will get to it but i encourage you to ask it again. that's in part because we have a tradition of asking at as the very last question as we conclude our program, as each speaker what is your 62nd idea to make the world a better place and i'll start with you shane bauer. >> i mean i don't have the innovation but honestly i think when we look back on this time and i mean in the recent decades i think mass incarceration is going to define the time and i think that we have two let a lot of people out of prison, i mean a lot. we have two or 3 million people behind bars more than any country in the world and doing that takes a lot of things. it's like changing the power of prosecutors, changing drug laws and it's also changing how much we have punish vio

we don't incarcerate people and they don't need to be incarcerated. that it is not the length of the prison sentence that makes us safer, it is what we do with people, the treatment we provide for them that makes us safer. that is why i do what i do. i'm sorry for the person who asked the last question, we will be able to get to it. i encourage you to come up and ask it again. that is because there is a tradition of asking as we include our program. speaker what is the 62nd i do to make the world a better place and i will start with you shane bauer. shane: i don't have an easy innovation. honestly, i think when we look back on this time, the. of time we are living in, in recent decades, with a mass incarceration -- i think we have to let a lot of people out of prison. a lot. people 2.2 or 3 million behind bars, more than any country in the world. doing that takes a lot of things. change the power prosecutors, changing how laws, much we punish violent criminals because most of the people in prison are therefore violent crimes. policing, there are so ma

there is something gone with the fact the us is so exceptional, the number of people we incarcerate. thinking more broadly and structurally, the way it is, lending their voice, the number of people they have, it is really powerful. >> the recent visit to tacoma with the help of cable partner comcast, a collection of personal stories from boeing employees. how it impacted their lives. >> the name of the book we talk about today is emerging from turbulence, it is a long-term product in the mid-90s, looking at the impact for other corporate chain in the united states around that time on the employee, what was the impact on attitudes to work and what they work for and on family lives, like outsourcing, mergers and in particular what we found was a big change in the 80s and 90s, shareholder value became dominant he those, a lot of other things, stakeholders into the rear. we were interested in the impact of that, we embarked on that study 20 years ago and chose boeing, the largest exporter by value and has an immense impact in the region especially on jobs and in particular, what we found

is so exceptional in the number of people incarcerated. more probably a structurally about the system and why it is the way it is in lending their voice to a number of people they have as part of their constituents to that would be really powerful. >> enough for my recent visit to tacoma, washington, a collection of personal stories from boeing employees about how workplace changes have impact their lives. >> the name of the book we are going to talk about is called and rated as part of a long-term project in the 90s. what we are interested in was looking at the impact of all the corporate change that has been happening in the united states around that time. on the employee's impact on their health, the cooperations -- corporations they work for and family life. one of the changes for things like outsourcing and in particular what we found was there with a big change in the 80s or 90s were shareholder value became the east coast of a lot of companies and put a lot of other things, the stakeholders into the rear. so we were very interested

two years going to college if you're going incarcerate for a minimum of time and. help rehabilitate. yeah and you're here at the job fair correct. looking for applicants applicants correctional officers were in a position to make that job offer today and talk a little bit about salary benefits the salary with the department they're starting out at fourteen dollars and sixteen cents an hour benefits or from day one and yet you have a hard time finding. people who will take these jobs where you have a lot of how many jobs do you have are you currently trying to fill. carlos what do you think our facility alone but. our facility alone or vacancy. hundred. one hundred just. yeah i was just in your facility our facility now why are those jobs i mean isn't that given the high unemployment the row we've interviewed people anderson that are working full time jobs seven dollars fifty cents an hour why is it hard to fill those jobs my personal opinion i think the work ethic is just it's not what it used to be when you agreed to take a job from your employer the new you work

two years going to cowards here going incarcerate for a minimum of time then. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for newcastle county in northern where northeastern kent county in northeastern maryland cecil county in northeastern maryland salem county in southern new jersey northwestern gloucester county in southern new jersey southeastern berks county in eastern pennsylvania montgomery in southeastern pennsylvania southern bucks county in southeastern pennsylvania chester county in southeastern pennsylvania philadelphia county in southeastern pennsylvania delaware county in southeastern pennsylvania until eleven pm at ten o seven pm severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from your prison to near pleasant hills moving east at fifty five miles per hour hazard sixty miles per hour wind gusts and quarter size hail source radar indicated impact minor damage to vehicles is possible expects damage to trees and power lines locations impacted include philadelphia camden wilmington newark mi

the majority of the 3,000 men and women incarcerated here are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. some are convicted and serving short sentences or are awaiting transfer to state prison. such is the case for philip white. once an aspiring rapper, he was recently convicted of murder. >> look around like [ bleep ]. how did i just go from five star hotels room service to an 8 x 10 cell. i mean people's bathrooms at home is bigger than where i'm living. i don't want to die like this. ♪ ♪ i don't want to cry like this ♪ ♪ tell me why life like this >> after serving a six-year prison sentence in indiana for drug dealing, white moved to oakland for a fresh start and hamade some inros in the city's rap scene. [ rapping ] >> but his dreams of stardom ended after he fatally stabbed his 44-year-old girlfriend 12 times in the arm and hand. >> number one song trying to shake heads. now i'm locked in a cell. how could the lord forget me? don't cry. >> white was living with his girlfriend and her four children. on the night of the murder, he and his girlf

farm pseudoical the second place prize went to classmate mary sier for her documentary on mass incarceration and mandatory sentencing. also third place winner rebecca won a prize for her documentary gender inequality and grace novack won an honorable mention of $250 for her documentary on the relationship between the police and the media. thank you to all the students who participated in our 2017 student cam video documentary competition. to watch any of the videos, go studentcam.org and studentcam 2018 starts in september with theme the constitution and you. we're asking students to choose the u.s.sion of constitution and create a video provisionng why the is important. >> the white house did not release a presidential address this week. the democratic address was given by virginia senators tim cane and mark warner talking about the recent violence in charlottesville. thee're all horrified by events that took place in charlottesville last weekend. out torts and prayers go troopers.nd state we also pray for those who are still recovering. >> i spent time in thelottesville this week in wake o

over 50 of our youth that are incarcerated for life without the possibility of parole. i'm going to be working very with thegently legislature to put in place a bill that will allow these juveniles to have a hearing. that is one of the biggest issues that we have seen, facing us in the great state of maryland. the second has to do with opiates. opiates in the state of maryland is killing our young people, our old people, it has no respect for age, greed, faith --ehavior, mental illness all these things are important but opiates is the leading cause of death in the state of maryland. we are trying to do whatever we possibly can to eliminate this problem. that is one of the issues that we are going to be looking at as we move into the legislative session. the most important issues where facing in new york israel safety. over 5300 rail crossings in new we have seen fatalities increase while nationally numbers have increased. -- decreased. requiren would inventory so we can prioritize and know which ones are the most deadly, which need a simple amount of work. which ones ne

tells this personal story that could really change the understanding of the american wing of the incarceration. >> the first book i did. she's one of the greatest scholars of. this book is so surprising because it's personal and gut wrenching. i think it is a catch. another well-known author that you have coming up. probably our greatest living psychologist doing a book on the origins of creativity, which is examined from a biological genetics plaintiff view. he examines how the humanities and sciences must come togethere together in the future. he discusses how humans are distinctly human through their language and creativity. people always say it was developed 10,000 years ago, he says not so, over 100,000 years ago and he traces the history in music and speech and art. the lost founding father. john quincy adams has finally come into his own. he was the most hyper intellectual president and was pummeled in the election of 1828 and andrew jackson slaughtered him, the mobs came to the white house and there was the man who the author william cooper said should be considered another founding fa

one thing about being incarcerated is it all comes down to a loss. you know, a loss of freedom.of people. loss of family, friends. it's one great big loss. but you begin to realize that i don't want to give the system my mentality. i don't want to give the system my sanity. i don't want to give them my integrity. i don't want to give them my loyalty. they're fighting for it. every day, it's a fight in here. every day, you're fighting for something. what i decided to do, i sought mental health. mental health didn't come to me. i went to them. i told them that i would like some help. >> he's been in the idu, our segregation unit, disciplinary segregation unit, i think for 5 1/2 months now. and he's been conduct clear throughout that time. so that told me that he really is motivated. how you doing, man? welcome. >> thank you. >> they got you up today, right? >> wednesday. >> wednesday? >> bailey was recently transferred from idu to the residential treatment unit or rtu, where he's given more privileges and ongoing counseling. >> other guys like, yeah. we can do it like he did it, y

we have the largest incarceration of women being anywhere in the world. right now what i do for work is see people on federal probation and i've done this a number of so what i see his family trauma and drugs and alcohol and affordable problem to me is isolation. i've been in isolation for so long and we talk about being out of the so one to three hours a day i saw a man not that long ago which to me is torture a. if you are in the county jail community setting its because we were violent and always invites or because you've been involved in gangs or in some situation you're going to be killed if you are in community. if. i think you are referring to solitary confinement. so, anything that restricts people to that degree is not healthy. there's no question. there are some ways to address that. the restrictions on the solitary confinement are the site of regulation and it has become so much more. it is very important because two years ago people were serving 800 sentences in solitary. it can be done. so the trick is to make sure you are replacing that with

all of the opportunities awarded as a citizen are gone when you are incarcerated. >> i respect that, i welcome you, and i need you. we want you with us and thank you. we need to get that message out and change the conversation on our side. >> reporter: trust on both sides involves keeping the conversation going. in part 4 you will hear more from the citizens that say they have action plans ready to put into effect within their communities. >> thank you, paul. tune in and watch our one hour race relations special. you can see the special tomorrow at 8 pm on ktvu plus. >>> it is 4:40 am. >>> the violence erupted after protesters clashed in berkeley and we let you know how many landed in handcuffs, and what the witnesses have to say. >>> the bay area rescue teams are heading to texas with many on the roads today to help the victims of hurricane harvey disaster.>>> you can see traffic doing pretty well this morning so far. as you drive on the freeways, we will let you know more about what you will see coming up. >>> right now you cannot see much, but the fog will not make it inland, smok

the united states has the highest incarceration rate in the world. dwarfing the rate of nearly every other nation. racial minorities are more likely than white americans to be arrested, once arrested they are more likely to be convicted, once convicted they are more likely to face the system. african-american males are six times more likely to be incarceratedthan white males, in similarly situated white counterparts and 2.5 times more likely . if the current trends continue, one of every three black american males born today can expect to go through in his lifetime. one of every six latino males as compared to one of every 17 white males. so we have a problem in this country. >> it's not a badge of honor to be number one in incarceration. it's a badge of shame. why is it that we are so different from every other country, and why do we have this college. >> as i tried to explain, it's complicated.there are a lot of complex reasons why but at the end of the day it's an unjust andunfair system and we all have to fight to change it. so thank you for hear

one in three black men can expect to be incarcerated in his lifetime. blacks proportionately sentenced to death as of 2014 the national death row population is approximately 42% black. and overall black population is only 13.6%. so for all of those reasons this anthology focuses on the plight of black men and boy and treatment of boy and men at every step of the criminal process is explored in depth in this book. as the essays make clear the issues ands are complex as are the solutions. the authors that i invited to join me in this projects are sol collar and activists who have studied in some instances personally experienced the phenomenon about which had they write. so in their essays they examine and explain the policing of black men. i want to tell you lax about the essays and then i want to talk about my own essay. my own contribution to the book which was about the prosecution of black men and talk to you about why i think that issue is so important so just briefly i'll tell you title and inspire you to read the become and read it. first is called

the second place prize went to classmate for her documentary on mass incarceration. also third place winner won a prize of $750 for her documentary on gender inequality. and an honorable mention prize $250 for her documentary on the relationship between the police and the media. thank you to all the students who participated in our 2017 student cam video documentary competition. to watch any of the videos go o student cam.org. we're asking students to choose any provision of the constitution. >> now a discussion on how cities are being affected by globalization and climate change. it's an hour and 25 minutes. >> d

jail complex located 30 miles outside of the city, but many of the nearly 3,000 men and women incarceratedarrested in oakland. most have only been charged with crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution of the cases and one of them is a bay area rapper who is more than a wanna be. >> we have an inmate come in a couple days, international rap artist. >> my kids know his songs, my daughters. they're all into the rap. >> drew down was around when two short was around and pocket man was around. he been around for a while. >> in the '90s i listened to a lot of his music. i was a drew down. ♪ so we got a celebrity here. >> i'm right here right now. i don't have all that, so you will see me back on the street. you will see me doing my music again. you will see me doing movies because this ain't going to stop me. i'm a boss. his real name is daniel robinson. he was arrested for driving under the influence and evading police. violations of his probation for a prior dui. now he must serve the remainder of his sentence, three years, in the jail. >> i don't run into too many people that don't kno

. >> while we're on parole, we become females while we're on parole, we have to be incarcerated in a female prison which is not something we're looking forward to. so we remain at least biological male -- we remain biologically male as long as we're on parole. so therefore we are housed in the male gender. >> yeah. >> this is the only person i would let that's transgender into my cell. i would not allow any other transgender or homosexual into my cell. >> why not? >> because there are too many complications. too many cat fights. things like that. too many disagreements. it's hard. it's hard for us to get along with other homosexuals but we get along with each other. we can deal with each other. >> although they came in together, dee dee will have to be segregated from teaquila and the rest of general population. prior misconduct within the walls of san quentin has come back to haunt dee dee. >> i mean, i got into a fight with somebody over nothing. it turned out to be nothing. we apologized -- well, she apologized to me and it was over with. >> even though dee dee completed her locku

on any given day, about 100 men are incarcerated here. most have been only accused of crimes and are waiting for trials, for the resolution. it can be a tense time. >> here in this facility you're looking at a couple of officer assaults a month. that is jail-wide. you try to train your people to be prepared to deal with any type of situation that comes up. any day you come to work, you put yourself at risk. >> today is one of those times. >> by who? >> by the inmate, they're putting him in there now. >> [ bleep ] >> on lockdown until further notice. >> we have had an officer get assaulted up on the fourth floor. they had the inmate under control and placing him in a chair. >> officer used pepper spray to secure him, he will remain strapped into the restraint chair for up to two hours until officers feel it is safe to return him to his cell. >> it is the second assault in a week on that floor. inmate to officer. >> so that dorm has a lot of young and aggressive inmates. >> you all right? >> i'm good. i was putting two guys coming back from

not just incarceration and recidivism.ng-term unemployment, which is feeding all of these other factors as well. julia: you can point to the economic challenges. you can point to a lack of wage growth as well if we look at the average medium as well as the controlling factor. you can also look at the medical reasons and the availability of these drugs, too. is it causal or symptomatically of what we have got in terms of economic growth and a lack of gains for the middle section of the economy and the poorer people in the economy? jeff: i think they are certainly interrelated. there is evidence that says if your long-term unemployed, you are more than likely to abuse drugs. if you are more than likely to abuse drugs, you are more likely to engage in collectivity. these are all interrelated. the question is, what can we do now? of these three major social ills, long-term unappointed, opioid abuse, and incarceration and recidivism, to ou way of thinking, recidivism is the most solvable. in chicago, my home base, i spoke to gr

i recently attended an event called unshackled which is women incarceration.senator booker was there and he mentioned that when you're dealing with the incarcerated population, that upon reentry back into something society that they face a 40,000 collateral consequences with having a criminal conviction and a criminal record. what has the aei looked at for them with regard to like intersect between the 7,500,000 people with disabilities and then the 2.2 million for being incarcerated and upon reentry level both whether it's the juvenile justice entry-level or when they are adults up on coming out help them be successful and to help regress the reentry and people going back to prison? >> so cory booker has been a champion of criminal justice reform. his team and i think conversations to see how a guy can be helpful. to the aei question, we're working with jennifer to provide us with information and data to keep us informed on how policy and research to make the better it so there's a partnership. number two, jennifer and i worked together. she's a part of the w