Panel on U.S. Prisons and Minorities

Dec 5, 2008

Open Society Institute

Panelists participated in a forum on justice system reform and breaking the cycle of incarceration within minority communities. Among the topics they addressed were the root causes of criminal behavior, racial disparities in the U.S. prison population, law enforcement and judicial reforms, as well as education and youth programs. They also .. Read More
Panelists participated in a forum on justice system reform and breaking the cycle of incarceration within minority communities. Among the topics they addressed were the root causes of criminal behavior, racial disparities in the U.S. prison population, law enforcement and judicial reforms, as well as education and youth programs. They also responded to questions from the audience. "Connecting the Dots: Race, Poverty, and Social Issues Fueling the Cycle of Incarceration" was a program of "Behind the Cycle: A National Summit to Advance an Integrative Approach to Justice Reform," held at the Bethesda Marriott.

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00:00:08 Unidentified Speaker THE A OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE CONFERENCE CONTINUE WITH A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE ROOT CAUSES OF CRIMINAL...
00:00:30 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE THE DISTINCT HONOR RIGHT NOW TO BRING THE PERSON WHO WILL BE INTRODUCING THE MODERATOR AND...
00:01:26 Unidentified Speaker GOOD MORNING. HOW IS EVERYBODY? WHAT I WALKED IN A PEOPLE SAY HE HAS THAT SERIOUS LOOK ON HIS FACE....
00:05:09 Unidentified Speaker INTO MORE AND I'M GIVING YOU A CHALLENGE TODAY TO SAY WHO WORKED AT WHAT IT MEANS TO DO COLLABORATION,...
00:11:34 Unidentified Speaker GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU FOR THIS VERY IMPORTANT CONFERENCE AND MEETING, I'M HAPPY TO...
00:15:15 Unidentified Speaker WELL, FIRST OF ALL GOOD MORNING. BECAUSE JAMAL IS A LARGE BOY AND HE HAS BEEN ALWAYS A LARGE BOY,...
00:19:09 Unidentified Speaker TERRY WILLIAMS, IS JAMAL A MAN CHILD AND IF HE IS WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU HEAR...
00:19:21 Unidentified Speaker GOOD MORNING. THERE ARE SEVERAL THINGS OUT LIKE TO JUST KIND OF ADDRESS BRIEFLY QUICKLY ABOUT THAT....
00:22:44 Unidentified Speaker LET ME ASK THIS, AND WHAT TERRY WILLIAMS HAS TALKED ABOUT JAMAL MAY BE DEPRESSED. JAMAL HAS NEVER...
00:23:27 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD ARGUE, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME SAY GOOD MORNING TO EVERYONE. I WOULD ARGUE PROFESSOR THAT IT...
00:26:22 Unidentified Speaker CHIEF EDWARDS, I WANT TO TALK TO BEFORE I GO TO VERONICA DAVIS. YOU KNOW JAMAL AND GREW UP IN THAT...
00:27:08 Unidentified Speaker I'M NOT NECESSARILY ADVOCATING THAT HE THE PLACE IN THE ADULT SYSTEM BECAUSE ONCE YOU GET THERE YOU...
00:27:51 Unidentified Speaker BUT WHY NOT? YOU HAVE BEEN PICKING HIM UP SINCE HE IS 10 YEARS OLD AND OUT HE IS 16. HE HAS HAD PROGRAMS,...
00:28:11 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE OPPOSITE OF THE TWO TALK TO HIM PERSONALLY.
00:28:15 Unidentified Speaker HERE I AM. YOU GROW UP IN THE SAME HOUSING PROJECT, YOU WENT TO COLLEGE, WHICH USE A TWO JAMAL?
00:28:22 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD EXPLAIN TO HIM A SITUATION THAT OCCURRED IN MY LIFE WHEN I WAS IN FOURTH GRADE. I GOT PUT...
00:30:38 Unidentified Speaker MISS DAVIS, LET ME ASK YOU THIS. HE SPOKE HERE LAST MONTH AT THE SENIOR CITIZENS IN THE HOUSING PROJECT...
00:31:11 Unidentified Speaker AM I THE JUDGE?
00:31:17 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE THE PROSECUTOR. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO AS OPPOSED TO WHAT YOU WILL DO. [LAUGHTER]
00:31:29 Unidentified Speaker I KNOW YOU WELL.
00:31:33 Unidentified Speaker WELL, AS PROSECUTOR IF I'M THE PROSECUTOR IN JUVENILE COURT, IT WILL BE THE FIRST TIME THAT I AS A...
00:35:33 Unidentified Speaker JOANNE WALLACE, YOU ARE HIS LAWYER AND WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE OF ARRESTING OFFICER TO BE BOLA IN YOUTH...
00:36:02 Unidentified Speaker YOU KNOW, IT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE IF JAMAL WEREN'T A YOUNG BLACK MALE, IF HE WERE IN CIRCUMSTANCES...
00:37:27 Unidentified Speaker IS THERE AN IMPLICIT MESSAGE TO GO WHEN YOU LOOK AS JAMAL? THIS LOOK LIKE AN ADULT? ARE PEOPLE TREATING...
00:37:58 Unidentified Speaker THE THING ABOUT JAMAL IS THAT SURNAME THERE ARE GOING TO BE ALL THE RISK FACTORS SUCH DIMENSIONS....
00:39:03 Unidentified Speaker A GOOD POINT. I WANT TO GO TO OUR MAYOR IN THIS TOWN, AND JUST SECONDS, BUT HERE IS THE POINT. ARE...
00:40:45 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THE SENIOR CITIZENS AND ALL CITIZENS SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT JAMAL IS WHERE HE IS BECAUSE SOCIETAL...
00:42:10 Unidentified Speaker I WANT YOU TO HELP A THEN. I AM QUEEN MOTHER WILLIAMS, 93, VOTED FOR BARACK OBAMA IN 2008. THE ELECTION,...
00:42:54 Unidentified Speaker WE WILL DO EVERYTHING TO ENSURE THAT JAMAL IS NOT ONE THAT IS HARASSING YOU ARE ANY OTHER SENIOR CITIZENS...
00:43:07 Unidentified Speaker WILL YOU KEEP HIM OUT OF THE BUILDING? [LAUGHTER]
00:43:10 Unidentified Speaker WE WILL KEEP HIM OUT OF THE SENIOR CITIZEN BUILDING.
00:43:15 Unidentified Speaker BUT I LIVE ON THE SAME FLOOR OR HIS GRANDMOTHER LIVES.
00:43:20 Unidentified Speaker WELL, WE HAVE TO BRING THE FAMILY INTO A FAMILY UNIT TWO.
00:43:22 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE TELLING ME HE WILL COME BACK TO THIS BUILDING.
00:43:27 Unidentified Speaker NO, I AM SAYING THAT WE HAVE LOW RISERS FOR FAMILY.
00:43:31 Unidentified Speaker YOU MAKE ME MOVE FOR HIM TO?
00:43:33 Unidentified Speaker NO, HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED INTO A FAMILY UNIT.
00:43:38 Unidentified Speaker SEAN, IS THAT A SOLUTION? OR SUCH AS PERPETUATING THE PROBLEM?
00:43:45 Unidentified Speaker WELL, GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. I DON'T THINK IT IS A SOLUTION AND I THINK WHAT HAS BEEN PERPETUATING...
00:45:28 Unidentified Speaker NO, I DON'T WANT HIM THERE. I DON'T WANT TO SEE JAMAL. DON'T GO THERE.
00:45:34 Unidentified Speaker MOTHER QUEEN IT NEEDS TO SEE JAMAL IN ANOTHER LIGHT BECAUSE FOR EVERY ONE A JAMAL OF ART AND THOUSAND...
00:46:34 Unidentified Speaker LET ME ASK ABOUT JAMAL AND ABOUT THE CONCERN OF THIS PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECT COMMUNITY. DO THEY HAVE...
00:46:58 Unidentified Speaker WELL, RECENT LAWS HAVE ALLOWED THAT TO MOVE TOWARD A UNDER THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION. IN WHICH THERE...
00:47:15 Unidentified Speaker TO PROTECT SENIOR CITIZENS.
00:47:16 Unidentified Speaker HOWEVER, WE WOULD HOPE THAT THERE WOULD BE OTHER KINDS OF INTERVENTIONS THAT WOULD HAPPEN FOR JAMAL...
00:48:03 Unidentified Speaker ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT MRS. JONES TOLD THE JAMAL, IF YOU DON'T COMPLETE YOUR HOMEWORK DON'T EXPECT...
00:48:12 Unidentified Speaker WELL, SO --
00:48:14 Unidentified Speaker IS SHEA WRONG? IS HE WRONG NOT TO COME?
00:48:17 Unidentified Speaker SHE IS WRONG TO TELL HIM THAT BECAUSE HE NEEDS TO BE IN THE CLASSROOM. MAY NOT BE HER CLASSROOM BECAUSE...
00:49:13 Unidentified Speaker LET ME ASK YOU IF I CAN, MARK, ABOUT JAMAL. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF PRESCRIPTIONS. LET'S TALK ABOUT...
00:49:38 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I THINK THE PARTICULARS OF JAMAL ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE SOMEWHAT UNIQUE. EVERYBODY IS AN INDIVIDUAL,...
00:51:39 Unidentified Speaker IF WE ARE TO TAKE A POLL IN THIS COUNTRY TODAY WHETHER IT IS NORTH, SOUTH, EAST OR WEST ABOUT JAMAL,...
00:52:02 Unidentified Speaker GIVEN A QUICK CHOICE, AMERICA WILL SAY I'M AFRAID OF JAMAL AND WE'VE GOT TO KEEP HIM LOCKED UP SO...
00:52:35 Unidentified Speaker AND THE DATA, THE STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT MOST PEOPLE THINK THE GREATEST VICTIMS OF CRIME ARE WHITE...
00:53:09 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS DIFFICULT. A PART OF THE POPULAR CULTURE AND MEDIA EXPOSURE AND THINGS LIKE THAT, WE NEED...
00:53:54 Unidentified Speaker TELLUS ONE PIECE OF DATA IF YOU CAN. THAT IS WE HAVE LOOKED AT THESE ISSUES FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS...
00:54:07 Unidentified Speaker HE IS MUCH MORE LIKELY TO GET LOCKED UP BECAUSE AS A JUVENILE TO BE TREATED MORE HARSHLY THAN HE WOULD...
00:54:41 Unidentified Speaker WERE GOING TO HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION ON JAMAL THAN THE REST OF THIS FAMILY. HE NEEDS A PLACE OF PROTECTION,...
00:55:20 Unidentified Speaker ALL GOOD THINGS OCCUR. OAK HILL IS AN AWFUL EXISTENCE WHERE NONE OF US WOULD WANT TO CANCEL OUR DOG...
00:55:48 Unidentified Speaker AND WHAT ABOUT JAMAL? TUTT TO PROVIDE EVERYTHING I HAVE JUST AS BAD FOR SOMEONE AT OAK HILL? A BED,...
00:55:58 Unidentified Speaker INCREASINGLY LESS DEBILITATING ENVIRONMENT AND I CHOSE A LESS DEBILITATING AS OPPOSED TO GOOD AND...
00:58:14 Unidentified Speaker THE REALDEAL IS IT HAPPENS WITHIN FIVE CARBOXYL WHERE YOU LIVE, BUT IT DOESN'T HAPPEN ACROSS TOWN...
00:58:46 Unidentified Speaker I AM HEARING THAT JAMAL'S PROBLEMS COULD HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH 10 YEARS AGO, AND THAT THEY ARE PREVENTABLE...
00:59:02 Unidentified Speaker FIRST OF ALL, GOOD MORNING. THE ANSWER IS YES. IT COULD HAVE BEEN AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN, BUT WAS NOT....
01:02:07 Unidentified Speaker WELL, LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER RESPONSE TO IT. [APPLAUSE]
01:02:16 Unidentified Speaker AS A PRINCIPAL OF THE SCHOOL. I'M NOT SAYING THERE IS CAUSE AND EFFECT, BUT I AM SAYING THAT THERE...
01:02:50 Unidentified Speaker LOOK, SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH THAT, OF COURSE. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT JAMAL.
01:03:00 Unidentified Speaker JAMAL WHITMAR.
01:03:01 Unidentified Speaker EXACTLY. THERE HAS BEEN THIS KIND OF, I THINK, INCORRECT. IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE THAT EVERY PERSON WHO...
01:05:52 Unidentified Speaker ABSOLUTELY.
01:05:57 Unidentified Speaker I WANT TO TURN OUT TO JAMAL'S YOUNGER SISTER, OPEC CAN DO IS 14 AND IT JUST ENTERED HIGH SCHOOL. ...
01:07:11 Unidentified Speaker THERE COULD BE ANY -- WHOOPS, SORRY. THERE WE GO. THERE COULD BE ANY NUMBER OF THINGS CLEARLY. AND...
01:08:19 Unidentified Speaker HOW WILL IT.
01:08:21 Unidentified Speaker I'M SORRY? I THINK IT IS CONSISTENT. I THINK IT IS CONSISTENT. CLEARLY IN THE CASE OF JAMAL AND HOPE...
01:10:11 Unidentified Speaker OUR SCHOOLS EVEN ABLE TO FIGURE THIS OUT, ANY WARNING SIGNS? HOPE IS DOING GREAT IN SCHOOL. NEVER...
01:10:22 Unidentified Speaker RIGHT.
01:10:25 Unidentified Speaker SHOULD THERE BE PEOPLE WHO RECOGNIZE STUDENTS BECOMING MORE OF AN INTROVERT, DOES NOT WANT TO GO HOME?...
01:10:34 Unidentified Speaker IT DEPENDS ON WHO THE FOLKS ARE IN HER LIFE. THERE CLEARLY ARE THE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE GIRLS, INC....
01:11:47 Unidentified Speaker THIS CERTAINLY SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED LONG BEFORE HE IS IN 11th GRADE.
01:11:51 Unidentified Speaker ABSOLUTELY.
01:11:52 Unidentified Speaker LET ME ASK YOU. LET ME TALK ABOUT HOPE AND JAMAL'S MOTHERS SARAH. SHE IS NOT MARRIED TO THEIR FATHER....
01:13:06 Unidentified Speaker FIRST THING, THE MOTHER IS NOT THE PROBLEM. SHE HAS A PROBLEM. SHE IS TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF HER...
01:17:49 Unidentified Speaker GOOD POINT. LET ME JUST ADD ONE FINAL POINT. IT SEEMS LIKE THERE ARE, AT LEAST -- I THINK THERE IS...
01:18:53 Unidentified Speaker IN THE FIRST PLACE THAT COULD BE AT BEST A TEMPORARY STRATEGY BECAUSE HER TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE IS...
01:19:37 Unidentified Speaker WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO THE MOTHER? SHE IS FEELING GUILTY. I HAVE TO GOT TO DO SOMETHING. I AM NOT IN...
01:19:47 Unidentified Speaker THERE MAY BE SOME HOME-BASED OPTIONS FOR ECONOMIC SECURITY. SHE PROBABLY HAS SOME SKILLS THAT SHE...
01:20:21 Unidentified Speaker WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS FAMILY? [LAUGHTER]
01:20:30 Unidentified Speaker TAKE THE MIC.
01:20:36 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THAT -- I AM JUST AN ADVOCATE OF THERAPY. I THINK PEOPLE NEED AN OUTLET TO DEAL WITH WHATEVER....
01:21:49 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE IT'S INTERESTING.
01:21:50 Unidentified Speaker AND I ALSO JUST THINK THAT EACH ONE OF US TAKING SOMEONE UNDER YOUR WING -- UNDER YOUR WING IS JUST...
01:23:10 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S INTERESTING. WE KNOW ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS OF THESE AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH HAVE HEALTH PROBLEMS,...
01:24:18 Unidentified Speaker HE NEEDS SOMEBODY IN THIS AUDIENCE TO HELP A BROTHER OUT, GET HIM OUT AND ABOUT TO PLACES, TO INTRODUCE...
01:24:58 Unidentified Speaker YOU SAID NOT BACK TO THE HOUSE. THAT IS NOT THE FIRST STEP.
01:25:04 Unidentified Speaker I AM JUST SAYING, IF HE DOES -- I THINK HE IS GOING TO BE CHALLENGED IN TERMS OF RELATIONSHIPS. IT...
01:25:37 Unidentified Speaker THE MIC IS OPEN. HE HAS A FAMILY. SHOULD JAMAL'S AND HOPE'S THAT COME HOME AND LIVE WITH THE FAMILY?...
01:25:48 Unidentified Speaker IT WILL JEOPARDIZE --
01:25:50 Unidentified Speaker THE MICROPHONE.
01:25:51 Unidentified Speaker IT MAY WELL JEOPARDIZE THEIR STATUS IN PUBLIC HOUSING. BECAUSE OF THEIR -- QUESTION I JUST INTERJECT?...
01:26:11 Unidentified Speaker TALK ABOUT THE UNDERLYING CONCERN. YOUR SENSE OF DISRUPTION, AS OPPOSED TO A BENEFIT. MALE SENIOR...
01:26:23 Unidentified Speaker AND THE COMMUNITY WHICH IS ALREADY THREATENED BY HIS SON. AND THEREFORE WE HAVE REPORTEDLY CHANGED...
01:27:43 Unidentified Speaker EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT BLACK ROLE MODELS AND ALL THESE GREAT THINGS. HE IS GOING TO HAVE THIS FATHER....
01:27:56 Unidentified Speaker I REALLY THINK WE HAVE TO ASK THE FAMILY WHAT THEY WANT. AS WE INTERVENE IN PEOPLE'S LIVES WE HAVE...
01:28:36 Unidentified Speaker IT'S VERY SCARY BECAUSE I DON'T HEAR A FAMILY PLAN.
01:28:40 Unidentified Speaker WAIT FOR THE MICROPHONE.
01:28:44 Unidentified Speaker OUR APPROACH IS THAT CUT THE POINT THAT WE KNOW THAT APTITUDE THAT IS LEAVING, IDEALLY SIX MONTHS...
01:29:20 Unidentified Speaker EVEN IF YOU HAVE THAT TIME, IF THE FAMILY SAYS YES OR NO DOES THAT DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE FATHER...
01:29:30 Unidentified Speaker AND THE OTHER THING I WOULD IMAGINE, IF WE ENTER THE FAMILY WITH THE FATHER, THEN THE ISSUES SURROUNDING...
01:30:13 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE TO INCREASE THE CHANCES THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A GUESS. IF THAT DOESN'T START -- IT'S BETTER...
01:31:29 Unidentified Speaker HE SAID AT ONE. MAYBE THEY WILL NOT PICK UP. AND THAT IS THAT IF HIS DAD HAD BEEN SENTENCED IN THE...
01:31:55 Unidentified Speaker IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HE COULD LITERALLY BE ANY PLACE IN THE FEDERAL SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES....
01:32:59 Unidentified Speaker LET ME GET BACK TO CHIEF EDWARDS.
01:33:01 Unidentified Speaker AMERICA HAS TO MOVE AWAY FROM ITS PUNITIVE APPROACH. WE ARE VERY PUNITIVE. EVERYTHING IS JAIL AND...
01:33:34 Unidentified Speaker WHO IS THE WEEK?
01:33:37 Unidentified Speaker IT IS ALL OF US. THAT OUR CITIZENS IN THIS COUNTRY. WE HAVE TO DEMAND OF OUR LEGISLATURES THAT THEY...
01:33:53 Unidentified Speaker OKAY.
01:33:54 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THERE IS STILL MORE, AT LEAST IN MY MIND THAT WE NEED TO TEASE OUT OF THIS. I AM UNCLEAR IN...
01:37:30 Unidentified Speaker EVEN IF THE FAMILY WANTS HIM BACK THERE SHOULD BE CAUTIONED BECAUSE THERE MAY BE SOME UNRESOLVED ISSUES...
01:37:38 Unidentified Speaker RIGHT.
01:37:41 Unidentified Speaker MR. PRYOR.
01:37:46 Unidentified Speaker ARE WE IN 2012 OR 2008?
01:37:47 Unidentified Speaker OKAY. SO WE ARE IN 2012. WE ARE IN 2012 THEN THERE HAS BEEN A COMPREHENSIVE DISCHARGE PLAN ALREADY...
01:41:10 Unidentified Speaker DAVIS, JUDITH BROWN, LEONARD DUNSTON. I WANT TO GET TWO POINTS. I'LL COME BACK. THE FIRST POINT, ARE...
01:42:11 Unidentified Speaker WE ARE THE SOLUTION. SO IF WE ASSUME THAT RESPONSIBILITY AS INDIVIDUALS IT IS AMAZING. EVERYBODY WANTS...
01:45:22 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THAT JAMAL NEEDS THE TIMELINESS OF THIS CONVERSATION. FIRST OF ALL THE MOMENT IN HISTORY IN...
01:49:41 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE]
01:49:47 Unidentified Speaker I JUST WANT TO SAY BEFORE WE ENVISION OURSELVES IN THE 2012 WE NEED TO COME BACK TO 2008 AND THINK...
01:51:42 Unidentified Speaker WE ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM MR. DUNSTON AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO COME BACK AND CLOSE WITH THE AUDIENCE....
01:51:59 Unidentified Speaker I JUST WANT TO JUST SAY WHAT HAS BEEN REALLY ON MY MIND SINCE WE OPENED THE SESSION BECAUSE I HAVE...
01:53:51 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. MARK AND TERRY AND SCOTT.
01:53:56 Unidentified Speaker JUST QUICKLY, ARE WE GOING TO BE HERE IN 2012? IN THE PAST WHEN WE GET TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT THESE...
01:55:15 Unidentified Speaker OKAY. THANK YOU. I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL THAT, I GET TONS OF MAIL DAILY FROM THE MOSTLY...
01:56:42 Unidentified Speaker DR. SCOTT.
01:56:45 Unidentified Speaker I WANT US TO COME BACK TO 2008 TO WHERE WE ARE SITTING TODAY, DECEMBER 5th, 2008. WE ARE SITTING AT...
01:59:08 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU, DR. SCOTT. I'M GOING TO GO TO PANEL, THE AUDIENCE. WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME SO I'M...
01:59:47 Unidentified Speaker GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS SUSAN CRUZ. MY QUESTION TO ANYONE IN THE PANEL. GIVEN CASE STUDY THAT HAS...
02:00:09 Unidentified Speaker WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION ISSUES AND? ANYBODY WANT TO TAKE THAT? LISA JACOBS.
02:00:24 Unidentified Speaker QUICKLY MY ORGANIZATION, LEGAL MOMENTUM DOES HAVE AN IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S PROGRAM. CLEARLY ONE OF THE...
02:01:28 Unidentified Speaker QUICK COMMENT FROM JOANNE.
02:01:29 Unidentified Speaker MY VIEW, ONE OF THE THINGS WE NEED TO DO GENERALLY MAKE SURE PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS TO ATTORNEYS EARLY...
02:02:46 Unidentified Speaker JUDITH REAL QUICKLY.
02:02:48 Unidentified Speaker OTHER THING WE HAVE TO DO BY 2012 TO MAKE SURE JAMAL'S FAMILY IF THEY'RE UNDOCUMENTED HAVE ACCESS...
02:03:03 Unidentified Speaker QUESTION, CENTER.
02:03:05 Unidentified Speaker GOOD MORNING. PEACE BE TO EVERYONE HERE. I WANT TO REFER TO MY ELDER, LEONARD. OPPRESSION AND INJUSTICE...
02:04:35 Unidentified Speaker MR. DUNSTON, RESPOND.
02:04:37 Unidentified Speaker TRY TO BE AS BRIEF AS POSSIBLE THE BROTHER REALLY OPENED UP SOMETHING I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE TALK WITH...
02:05:36 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. QUESTION TO THE RIGHT.
02:05:39 Unidentified Speaker I JUST HAVE TWO POINTS TO MAKE. THAT IS IN THE '60s APPARENTLY SOMEBODY HAD THIS CONVERSATION. I'M...
02:06:52 Unidentified Speaker POINT WELL-TAKEN. NEXT QUESTION FROM THE RIGHT GOING THE OTHER WAY.
02:06:57 Unidentified Speaker I HAD A QUESTION, THAT BEARS A LITTLE ON WHAT DR. PRIOR SAID BEFORE, ABOUT HOW WE FOCUS SO MUCH ON...
02:07:28 Unidentified Speaker TAKE THAT IN RESPONSE?
02:07:29 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I THINK THE FIRST HALF OF THE CONVERSATION IS STARTING TO HAPPEN. THERE ARE SOME ECONOMISTS ...
02:08:20 Unidentified Speaker DR. PRYOR, YOU WANT TO
02:08:21 Unidentified Speaker YES. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF CONVERSATIONS TAKING PLACE AND I'M, PLEASESED TO BE A PART OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS....
02:11:25 Unidentified Speaker VINCENT SCHIRALDI. THEN TO A QUESTION.
02:11:28 Unidentified Speaker CIRCLE BACK TO AN ANSWER ABOUT WHAT JAMAL IS GOING TO BE LIKELY IN PRISON OR NOT AND IT RELATES TO...
02:13:12 Unidentified Speaker QUICK COMMENT FROM DR. MINCY AND QUICK QUESTION.
02:13:15 Unidentified Speaker I JUST FIND MISSING FROM THIS CONVERSATION AN HONEST DISCUSSION ABOUT GENDER. IT BOGGLES MY MIND BECAUSE...
02:15:02 Unidentified Speaker GO TO THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY WEB SITE AND LOOK AT PROFESSOR MINCEY'S BOOK, "BLACK MALES LEFT BEHIND."...
02:15:15 Unidentified Speaker WE TALKED ABOUT JAMAL'S FAMILY AND HOW THE SYSTEM WOULD HANDLE JAMAL, JUDGE HERE, CHIEF OF POLICE,...
02:16:10 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS GOOD QUESTION, GOOD POINT, I HAVE SAID THIS TO JUVENILE COURT JUDGES EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME...
02:16:42 Unidentified Speaker SO MY QUESTION IS, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE DOING THIS WE HAVE TO REACH OUT AND FIND WAYS TO GET THESE OTHER...
02:16:47 Unidentified Speaker NEXT COMMENT?
02:16:50 Unidentified Speaker DR. MINCY, I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMEND ABOUT GENDER THOUGH I LIKE TO THE PUT PANEL IN DIFFERENT DISCUSSION...
02:17:35 Unidentified Speaker I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE WANT TO ANSWER. I BET YOU HAVE A BETTER ANSWER THAN THEY DO...
02:17:49 Unidentified Speaker RIGHT.
02:17:50 Unidentified Speaker I KNOW AN A-PLUS STUDENT WHEN I SEE ONE. [LAUGHTER]
02:17:53 Unidentified Speaker NO. I THINK, YOU KNOW, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF WORK HAPPENING AROUND DEVELOPING GENDER RESPONSIVE...
02:19:06 Unidentified Speaker I WANT TO RESPOND TO IT, BECAUSE THERE IS A CHIEF JUDGE OF THE JUVENILE COURT IN MASSACHUSETTS WHO...
02:19:30 Unidentified Speaker YES.
02:19:32 Unidentified Speaker THE JUDGE HAD NO IDEA THIS WASN'T JUST SOMEONE WHO DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL OR COME HOME, BUT SHE...
02:19:45 Unidentified Speaker TRITE.
02:19:48 Unidentified Speaker TRUANT, TRA DIG AT TREATMENT, PROBLEM NEVER SOLVED.
02:19:53 Unidentified Speaker ASSESSMENT TOOLS ARE WEAK IN THIS AREA.
02:19:55 Unidentified Speaker THOSE ASKED TO ENFORCE THEM ARE NOT EQUIP TO DO SO UNFORTUNATELY. ANOTHER QUICK RESPONSE.
02:20:00 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. I THINK IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT IF WE'RE GOING TO GO BEHIND THE CYCLE IT DOES BEGIN AT THE...
02:21:12 Unidentified Speaker PROFESSOR DOROTHY ROBERTS AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL HAS WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ABOUT THIS...
02:21:26 Unidentified Speaker HOWARD WOOL RIDGE FROM LEAP. IN 2008, THIS CONFERENCE CAN AGREE WAR ON DRUGS, MOST DISASTEROUS, DYSFUNCTIONAL...
02:22:50 Unidentified Speaker ANYBODY WANT TO ANSWER IT? CHIEF EDWARDS.
02:22:55 Unidentified Speaker I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO DRUG PROHIBITIONS BUT I THINK THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS DRUG...
02:23:18 Unidentified Speaker PEOPLE TAKE DRUGS BECAUSE THEY MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER.
02:23:25 Unidentified Speaker TERRIE HAVE A COMMENT?
02:23:26 Unidentified Speaker PLAIN AND SIMPLE. WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT DEALING WITH THEIR PAIN, THEY SELF-MEDICATE. WITH DRUGSING...
02:23:43 Unidentified Speaker QUESTION IN THE CENTER.
02:23:44 Unidentified Speaker YES. HI, I JUST WANT TO FIRST START OFF BY SAYING I REALLY APPRECIATE THE QUESTIONER PRIOR TO THE...
02:27:04 Unidentified Speaker DR. MINCEY.
02:27:06 Unidentified Speaker SO I'VE BEEN WORKING FOR, SINCE THE EARLY 1990s, FOR, WITH A PROGRAM THAT IS CALLED THE CENTER FOR...
02:30:10 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME BECAUSE THIS HAS TO END. WHAT I'M GOING TO DO, IS TO, IF THERE'S 30 SECONDS...
02:30:32 Unidentified Speaker I'M KELLY, FROM THE 8 AIDES TASK FORCE OF GREATER CLEVELAND AND I'M EXPANDING ON THE GENDER ISSUE...
02:31:01 Unidentified Speaker GREAT QUESTION.
02:31:02 Unidentified Speaker LIKE EVERYONE TO CONSIDER WHAT THINGS MIGHT LOOK DIFFERENT, TALKING CIRCLES FROM THE TIME OF PRESCHOOL...
02:32:13 Unidentified Speaker GREAT, THANK YOU.
02:32:16 Unidentified Speaker MY QUESTION IS, AS YOUNG BLACK MALE, COLLEGE-EDUCATED OOND LIVING IN THE SAME COMMUNITY AS JAMAL AND...
02:33:01 Unidentified Speaker NEXT QUESTION.
02:33:02 Unidentified Speaker MY QUESTION IS, WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THE CRIMINALIZATION OF EDUCATION AND POOR URBAN AREAS. WHEN...
02:33:31 Unidentified Speaker NEXT QUESTION. LAST QUESTION.
02:33:35 Unidentified Speaker YES. INDIVIDUAL ISSUE OR SOCIAL PROBLEM RIGHT? WE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT THIS AS AN INDIVIDUAL, AS...
02:34:07 Unidentified Speaker CENTER.
02:34:10 Unidentified Speaker FOUMEDER, OF ORGANIZATION FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION OF EX-OFFENDERS. WHEN WE COME TOGETHER WE HAVE PONTIFFCATION...
02:35:59 Unidentified Speaker NEXT QUESTION OR COMMENT.
02:36:03 Unidentified Speaker I'M -- STATE UNIVERSITY NORTH CAROLINA. HI, EVERYBODY. I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE PANEL. EVERYTHING...
02:36:24 Unidentified Speaker NEXT COMMENT OR QUESTION?
02:36:26 Unidentified Speaker IT'S HARD FOR ME TO IMAGINE THAT THE REST OF THIS CONFERENCE CAN BE AS GOOD AS THIS PANEL HAS BEEN....
02:38:00 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. NEXT QUESTION OR COMMENT.
02:38:05 Unidentified Speaker YES, IN ORDER TO AVOID POVERTY YOU HAVE TO HAVE A LIVEABLE WAGE JOB ALLOW YOU TO AFFORD TO LIVE IN...
02:38:45 Unidentified Speaker FINAL COMMENT. QUESTION?
02:38:47 Unidentified Speaker I'M FROM MADISON, WISCONSIN. AND I HAVE A QUESTION. WHAT CAN BE DONE TO ADDRESS THE FEMALE PRISONERS...
02:39:04 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. THESE ARE ALL GREAT QUESTIONS THAT I THINK, MOST OF THE PANELISTS ARE GOING TO BE AROUND...
02:42:22 Unidentified Speaker AWSOME, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME. CHARLES OGELTREE, IS ONE OF VERY, VERY FEW PEOPLE THAT...

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