i'm laurie garduque, as jewelulia said. julia has given you a picture of the journey that brought us to this stage today and to all of you joining us in this room. and i want to thank you all for joining us and participating in the safety and justice challenge. so let me go a little bit deeper into the nuts and bolts of what this endeavor will be. and why in thinking about the growth of incarceration in the united states we decided to focus on local criminal justice reform. that's always an initial challenge. so despite the growing national attention to the large numbers of americans confined in state and federal prisons, significantly less attention has been paid to local criminal justice systems where the criminal justice system primarily operates and where overincarceration begins. there are nearly 12 million local jail admissions every year, almost 20 times the number of prison admissions and equivalent to the populations of los angeles and new york city combined. three out of five people in jail are legally presumed in