my name is linda evans, and i work with legal services for presence with children. like to address this need for mental health counselor inside the sheriff's department. we feel very, very strongly --

my name is linda evans, and i work with legal services for presence with children. like to address this need for mental health counselor inside the sheriff's department. we feel very, very strongly -- were closely connected with the veterans program in the jail. one of our members, the supervisor of that program, and personal conversations, she has commented to me many times on the need for increased mental health treatment for the veterans in her program. so i really support the expenditure of this money and the allocation of this money for the counseling that veterans need so desperately, but when they're inside the jail and then hopefully they will also receive services in terms of reentry and being able to reintegrate back into the community without the burden of the mental health issues that they may have developed previous to being in jail, for post- traumatic stress syndrome, and certainly inside the jail, which is a stressful situation as well. we definitely support the allocation of this money for a mental health counselor for the veterans in the jail. than

my name is linda evans. i work with legal services for prisons with children and all of us or none, which is a civil rights organization of formerly incarcerated people. we support this legislation. supervisor mirkarimi, thank you for introducing it and congratulations on your election as our next sheriff. there are a couple of points i wanted to address from previous speakers. one, the question of excluding others from similar protections or similar tax benefits. i think it is important for us to understand that one in four people in california actually do have conviction histories. as a consequence, any tax break that is extended to one of those people who had a conviction history will, in fact, be part of actually increasing employment for our whole population. one in four is a significant percentage of our population in the city and state. it is crucial that we recognize that this tax break -- if we target people who are recently released with this tax break, which we support, it is also very important t

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tonight charles evans hughes, chief justice of deny states, and then on saturday three-time governor of new york al smith followed by businessman and member of the liberal wing of the gop linda the series continues starting monday with thomas dewey. the contenders every night at 10 eastern on c-span. >> in russia's parliamentary elections earlier this year, vladimir putin's party won with just under half the vote. four years ago his party won almost two-thirds of the vote. the center for the national interest recent hosted a discussion about the election and what it means for russia. this is almost an hour and a half. >> all right. we're going to get underway now. it's a great privilege to moderate this afternoon session. i called dmitry now only about a week ago after a course of observing the events underway in the russian federation in moscow, and other cities. what some have described as perhaps the beginning of the breakup of the ice that forms during a russian winter. to discuss the political changes under way in russia. and i suggested, of course, that dimitri should join us to provide his views on, not only what happened, but what could occur in the future. surprisin