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From YouTube: Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. on Creating A Criminal Justice Reform Fund 9-29-2016

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From the Stated Meeting of Philadelphia City Council held Thursday, September 29, 2016:

Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. (4th District) speaks on his bill and resolution to create a new fund for anti-recidivism programs. The fund would be created with a portion of the money remaining in the prison budget at the end of each fiscal year.

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Desmond sales, Thank You mr. president, I guess when President Obama catches a cold, the rest of the nation. Actually, catches on I want to talk about 3, s's, very quickly, public safety, saving money and even saving some souls, and, as co-chair at a special committee on criminal justice for pharma. Thank you for appointing this body to actually start to do a deeper dive into the issue of criminal justice day.

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I just introduced a resolution calling for hearings to talk about the directional shift from a mass incarceration to reducing of the census up on State Road and possibly even saving the tax payer some money. But in that what we want to start to look at is how those savings are appropriated. Should we put it back in the general fund where we do or flop things like bike lanes and fixing potholes, because those are important or do we reinvest in justice?

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Do we go and look at the programs that are working find ways to bring them to scale so that we really have a tipping point in this city, where young people aren't on the pipeline to prison?

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We are charged with two things in that committee, one to stop the bleeding and then reduce the systemic reasons for criminal activity. This fund will be dedicated to the ladder it will be dedicated to finding WIC programs that work to reduce people's propensity to want to do wrong.

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If you look at Washington DC and many of my colleagues and staff have been looking at the whole bill situation and lack of bail in Washington, they were able to cut out a cash bail system, reduced crime, increased public safety all at the same time, by investing in pre in conservation efforts, diversionary programs, day reporting, centers and the light. The prison department was appropriated over 258 million fiscal year.

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Twenty seventeen to keep prisons running at his current capacity with the reduction in the prison population in size that we anticipate, we will be able to reduce tossing some savings to the city. To this day we have the highest recidivism rate in the Commonwealth and rivals many in the nation, 60.5 percent recidivism. That means 65 people out of 100, we'll go back, 60.1 percent re-arrest, meaning if you get arrested once you are more likely to be a repeat and Rafael fender, 41.1 percent re-incarceration, we are an arrest, doesn't require a leet release.

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It requires incarceration, so we want to stop when this cost us 90 for 120 dollars, on average a day to incarcerate an individual.

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What we are simply saying is that we want to move from just being mad at cancer to investing in probable cures and that's what we want to do if we're going to really move in this direction, we should reinvest in these are programs that support and that the prisons are doing are beginning to work, we're seeing modest reductions in the census, but if we're ever going to bring them to scale, if we're ever going to stop some of the activities in our barber shops, these young people head into these prisons, we have to reinvest those savings in a proper way, so I.

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Thank you, mr. president, I thank all those members on the committee that have done such hard work. Mr. mr. president, and once you start digging and uncovering layers and onion, you start crying first, but then you start making progress. Thank You! Mr. president, Thank.

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You councilman thank you and Councilman Johnson for being such significant representation on their criminal justice committee, guys don't great work. Thank you very much.