and certainly pretrial detention is part of the mix.i go back to what i said earlier, i believe that pretrial custody should be based on appropriate -- and i want to underline appropriate, risk assessment tools. that will be race neutral. that will be gender neutral. that will be socially neutral. but assess risk, risk of violence, risk of not showing up for court. i believe that, that is an achievable goal. and i believe that the sentencing commission is a really good place. we have excellent resources at our disposal. we have a two-year plan. and we have basically every component of the general system and the community in this process. i hope we will come up with a pretrial releasing process. >> i want to thank all panelists for participating. and thank you all for attending. [applause] i think our public defender will make some closing remarks. >> in closing i want to thank all of you for attending this year's justice summit. as you heard we have many challeng challenges in areas to improve upon. we look for your support. we will con

now the pretrial diversion project and pretrial release is really the hummer so to speak. the district attorney and sheriff set the policy. we have been working or this base practice for years. obviously the major stake holders, the district attorneys, the

now the pretrial diversion project and pretrial release is really the hummer so to speak. the district attorney and sheriff set the policy. we have been working or this base practice for years. obviously the major stake holders, the district attorneys, the she rifs. just to give you an idea of the scope of what we are doing. approximately 1100 people come out of jail from our program. this time we are targeting somewhere around 1500 cases. prior to the last 3 or 4 years, the data that is now coming in, recidivism is around 6 or 7 percent, failure to appear rate or people to appear in court is lower. they are walking people out of jail. we've just come out of a difficult 4-5 years and that is budget years with a lot of social services being cut and really at the end of the day when you are talking about it and talking about housing and talking about employment, you are talking about counseling; you are talking about substance abuse. when there is not access to those services and you are trying to wrap it around. come full circle to your question, how do you now relate to th

we have a high level of percentage wise of pretrial detentions as opposed to other counties. part of reason for that is because we have a very high level of alternative resolutions. for other counties for instance are barely using split sentences on the realignment. my option is meeting the state on the use of split sentencing which means a lot of people are out of jail way before they would be in any other community. these are post sentencing people that in another county would be county towards the racial population in the circle they are in the community. there is also a large number of people in place on community base supervision where another communities these people would be doing their time and incarceration. that has a tendency to impact the ratios because on the sentencing part of it, we are much more likely to release somebody into community that many other counties are. and we believe that has worked well for us. the crime rate has not gone up, in other areas it's low. we are the only one to do so and we are the only urban counties that have under population but t

the issue of -- well the pretrial is there is a misconception about which is fair and which isn't fair. i have to say for the sake of public safety, we offer a little bit of the bjs study that our statistics is true because we incorporate other people with a part of the skim in the game, if you will, the family and members and we do a better job of seeing people return to court. we don't judge, we just return them to court and make their appearances. >> there are a lot of organizations throughout the state that, you know, kind of pull their resources together to be able to engaged in some lobbying, i think it true for some associations and there is some lobbying for the california's association. do you know how much your organization spends on lobbying? >> we don't even have a paid lobbyist. but the sure ityty company there is a guess. i have no idea what their figure would be. >> i understand that you are also amen of american bail coalition? >> it's a representative of the assurity companies. those are the big guys that we get our paper to write with. i'm not a member of the american

. >>> up next, the 9/11 pretrial hearings are underway from guantanamo bay.e'll have a live report. there's more to financial news than the ups and downs of the dow. for instance, can fracking change what you pay for water each month? have you thought about how climate change can affect your grocery bill? can rare minerals in china affect your cell phone bill? or how a hospital in texas could drive up your healthcare premium? i'll make the connections from the news to your money real. >>> welcome back, recapping our top stories, the court has ordered the release of hosni mubarak. if prosecutors do not appeal the ruling, mubarak could be freed in the next couple of days. >>> a military judge has sentenced private bradley manning to 35 years in prison, he leaked classified documents to wikileaks. he was dishonorably discharged and will no longer get pay. >>> to provide some direct incite on bradley manning's trial, we turn to amnesty international's observer at the trial. what is your reaction? >> it is what we were expecting. he was available to as much as 90

francisco, now as we'll discuss this, we have most of the people who are in jail are because of pretrial detention. these are people who have not been charged with a crime, they just don't have the money to post bail t moderate is chief attorney and michael gonzalez and look forward to this panel and their with wisdom. >> thank you, jeff. the reform and commercial bail system is one of the hottest topics. the institute of policies has called the bail system a failed policy that leads to excessive incarceration and mostly of pretrial detainees who cannot afford to buy their freedom. time and time again commercial bail has proven itself to most effective with those released on assurity bonds with 60 percent less likely to become fugitives. let me introduce the panel, der a dwight is with the association, she owns carson bail bonds and in the industry for 4 decades and former mistake mayor of carson california and helen for the juvenile and criminal justice system and currently on the and ralph on the commission of san francisco and works closely with the sheriff's department which now lead

located in the very heart of the city, the baltimore city detention center is one of the largest pretrial detention facilities in the united states. >> the showers are dirty, the toilets are dirty. everything is just dirty. >> it's intended for adults, but under harsh "get-tough" laws passed in maryland and some other states, juveniles charged as adults are also held here. fifteen to a room, they're held indoors for about 23 hours per day. anthony thomison was just 16 years old when he was arrested for armed robbery and charged as an adult. he was ultimately cleared of all charges, but while waiting five months for trial, he wasn't attending school - he was in baltimore city det ention center. >> for some people you get stronger, for some people you just go crazy. like there's people in there that you know once they got in there they wanted to do more stuff than they were doing when they were home. especially being around adults and the adults are going in there, they kind of think it's what you're supposed to do. like, they kind of get adapted to it. >> the us department of justice agree

coming up next on al jazeera the 9/11 pretrial hearings are under way at guantanamo. we'll have a live report. hi, my name is jonathan betz, and i'm from dallas, texas, and i'm an anchor for al jazeera america. i started in a small television station in rural arkansas. it's a part of the country that often gets overlooked. but there are a lot of fascinating people there, a lot of fascinating stories there. i like that al jazeera will pay attention to those kinds of places. what drew me to journalism is i like the idea that we are documenting history. al jazeera documents it like none other. and to be a journalist, and to be part of a team like that? that's an incredible blessing. >> welcome back. recapping our stories at this hour. united nations security council will hold an emergency meeting this afternoon to discuss the chemical weapons attack in syria. opposition groups say hundreds of people died in this attack near damascus. the syrian government denies the charges. >>> a court has released, ordered rather the release of hosni mubarak. he's currently being held

of course included nine months in solitary which even the judge found to be torture or on lawful pretrialconfinement. realistically given that the government was seeking 90 and then 60 and the defense was around 25, 35 seems like a good outcome though obviously it is a very -- it is very steep compared to any other whistleblower on espionage charges. >> down to possibly eight, as you said. but that implies that manning is still sort of a dangerous individual which cannot be the case. he leaked secrets. it is not like he is giving security clearance and will be able to do this again. is this about sending a message, not summits dealing with a crime but making sure people in the future do not. >> the government had the opportunity when private manning pled guilty to improperly disclosing classified information, he stood up and took accountability. the government rather than just accepting his guilty plea in what would have been an appropriate punishment insisted on going forward with the aiding the enemy charge, similar to treason. the government lost on that and all they did was five years

directed the implementation of the following additional measures to improve support and strengthen pretrial investigations, enhance oversight, and make prevention response efforts that were consistent across the services. first, creating legal programs that will provide legal representation for victims throughout the process, next, ensuring that all pretrial hearings of charges are conducted by jag officers, third, inviting commanders with options to transfer service members accused of sexual assault in order to eliminate continued contact while respecting rights of victims and accused, requiring that the first flag officer within the chain of command received reports on sexual assault incidents in responses, directing dod inspector generals to evaluate closed sexual assault investigations, standardizing prohibitions on inappropriate behavior between recruiters and trainers and trainees across dod and developing and proposing changes to the manual for courts-martial that would have victims giving input during the sentencing phases of the court-martial. all of these measures will provide vic

for everything that he did months ago during his providence inquiry statement to the court during pretrial hearings private manning actually got up and he admitted everything that he did he said yes i sent hundreds of thousands of files to wiki leaks and i did this then the other thing and there is a reason for that i want to remove this fog of war and i want people to see what was actually going on in the world what was happening in iraq and afghan wars that with pantano bay and with the flow missy and all of that today however private manning took the stand in just around ninety seconds to two minutes he turned his head to colonel denise wind for citing judge in the case and he asked for forgiveness he apologized to the court he apologized to his country and he asked for them to try to go easy on him private manning is now facing ninety years in prison for sending a whole trove of classified information to wiki leaks and today he asked the judge to go easy on him he said i'm sorry i'm sorry for what i did i'm sorry for what i did to the united states i'm sorry for hurting people i never

throughout the trial and pretrial and when there's a whole process there is in this case is going to go to the army court of appeals and it's possible that it could go now all the way to the supreme court. argy correspondent liz wahl thank you. now for more on what the sentence means for bradley manning and other whistleblowers moving forward i was joined earlier by just one radek the national security and human rights director of the government accountability project in colonel morris davis a professor of law at howard university and the former chief prosecutor at guantanamo bet now we started by asking colonel davis what exactly this thirty five year sentence means for manning. well you know a lot of folks really panicked when they heard that number today in the military has a very elaborate process for how they calculate confinement so that thirty five year number likely results in private manning serving about another eight to nine years of confinement because he will get the credit for time served you get called good time credit it's a third off ten days per month off your senat

. >>> the 9/11 pretrial hearings are underway at guantanamo bay. >>> and children in japan are contracting thyroid cancer, and it's being linked to the fukishima disaster. mission. >> there's more to america, more stories, more voices, more points of view. now there's are news channel with more of what americans want to know. >> i'm ali velshi and this is "real money." this is "america tonight." sglovrjs our -- >> our news coverage reveal more of america's stories. ♪ >>> recapping our top stories the military judge has sentenced private bradley manning to 35 years in prison. the leaked classified government documents to i wikileaks. along with the sentence, manning -- [ technical difficulties ] and hosni mubarak is currently being held while prosecutors investigate corruption allegations against him. if prosecutors don't appeal the ruling, mubarak could be free in the next couple of days. >>> hearings are continuing on guantanamo. on tuesday a prisoner said gr d grard -- guards are depriving him of food as torture. natasha ghoneim joining us. so natasha get us up to speed on what has happe

every day is another day defendants spend in pretrial incarceration at cost to taxpayers of more than $100 a day. the defender's office has had to sharply curtail expenditures for experts which may be leading to a decrease in the quality of our representation leading to longer prison terms and more avoidable it taxpayer expense. and, frankly, the picture looking forward is still bleaker. next year the federal public defenders' office nationwide are scheduled to take a 23% budget cut. in delaware this means a third of the office would be laid off, so the remaining employees would face between 26 and 60 furlough days and funding for experts and investigation services would not be restored. fifty years ago this year, the u.s. supreme court gave substance to the sixth amendment's right to counsel when it ruled the government could not threaten indigent individuals with prison be terms unless it also provided them with an attorney. the federal services are the embodiment of that vital legacy. sequester's slowing the pace, increasing the cost and potentially eroding the quality of delivery

he faces -- he has only served the maximum pretrial detention. european union foreign ministers have been posting their response to the egyptian government's deadly crowd -- crackdown. they will review funds given to cairo and are stopping short of a freeze on aid. >> we had the statement and even the language of the statement seems like a big compromise. the u.s. has moderated its tone after days of really asking the interim government and the army to step back and try to scale back the violence and putting the blame for many recent deaths on the interim government. this document makes it a 50-50 responsibility between the government and the protesters. it highlights the increasing our continuing desire to permit more dialogue and not alienate either side and engage constructively time providing for the egyptian people, saying the people have suffered enough. to cut aid now would be disastrous. >> what does it actually amount to? >> the eu said today that the ongoing programs they have, of which most is for civil sobriety -- society and vulnerab

what they find really troubling is the pretrial discovery three and the prosecutors obligation to turn over any exculpatory evidence. whatever problem with is this program systematically excludes or appears to systematically exclude all evidence obtained that is hidden from view so the defense does not know to request it. they find that more troubling than the probable cause aspects. the supreme court has given a police wide pro- interpretation of when probable cause can be obtained in a variety of exceptions, but it is really the pretrial discovery part of it that troubles a lot of the former judges and defense attorneys. toone of the two slides used train agents with the drug enforcement agency instructs them in these a parallel construction. according to the slide this is a second slide instructs agents that such evidence describe what you uncovered about those rules and this concept of parallel construction, which until now, had not been publicly discussed in writing. >> what really surprised me was talking to agents, current and former, who said, "sure, we do that." the other half