. >>> hi, michael lion, san francisco gray panthers. over the past 40 years workers have taken an incredible hit. the economic disparity now is like it was back before the crash in 1929. working people are just incredibly put upon now. and i am firmly convinced that a major cause of that has been mass incarceration because it's really made people think twice to be worried about, about fighting back. and mass incarceration has a lot of aspects to it. it has -- it has to do with the incredible number of people who get arrested and, of course, this is very [speaker not understood] of it, but it also has to do with incredibly long sentences that people serve in jail and it also has to do with the lifetime kind of sentences that people have with the discrimination against ex felons. so, i think that anything that can be done to reduce this lifetime aspect of mass incarceration is good and should be supported. >> thank you, mr. lion. >>> good evening, good afternoon. my name is vanessa banks. i am a member -- a native of the bayview hunters p