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From YouTube: Councilman Jones on Lessons from the Special Committee on Criminal Justice Reform 11-17-2016
Description
Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. (4th District) speaks on takeaways from an interim report issued by Council's Special Committee on Criminal Justice Reform.
Read the report here: http://phlcouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/SCFall2016InterimReport.pdf
A
Behalf
of
the
majority
cheer
girls,
Kozma
Jones,
Thank
You.
Mr.
president,
first,
let
me
thank
you
for
well
I
guess
what
would
come
first
is
that
in
army
they
teach,
you
never
volunteer
and
there's
a
reason
for
it,
because
volunteers
get
put
to
work
in
a
substantial
way,
but
I
really
want
to
reverse
that,
and
thank
you
for
getting
me
to
volunteer
or
on
the
committee
for
justice
reform.
It
has
been
worthwhile
and
I
hope
it
will
be
productive.
A
We
have
produced
a
element
report,
I'm
am,
and
care
gray
was
a
co-chair
that
you
appointed
wanted
to
title
this
report:
a
shift
from
reentry
to
pre
entry
which,
when
you
address
the
committee
at
first,
we
wanted
to
figure
out
it's
easier
to
prevent
people
from
getting
in
the
pipeline,
then
once
they
get
in
trying
to
bring
them
back
into
society.
So
we
are
spending
a
lot
of
our
time
on
it.
A
I
want
you
to
know
that
working
with
see
Jeb
criminal
justice
logic
board,
working
with
the
mayor's
MacArthur
Foundation
judge
learner
and
his
staff
members
on
this
committee,
our
councilman
Johnson
comes
with
women.
Blackwell
has
been
at
meetings
and
Councilman.
Henan
has
been
at
meetings
to
offer
input
to
the
document
in
orem
document.
You
see
you
today
on
we
started
out.
We
had
I
think
four
major
long
hearing,
starting
with
councilman
Johnson's
gun
violence,
a
resolution
where
we
heard
passionate
testimony
from
the
victims
of
what
occurs
when
these
incidents
happening
throughout
our
neighborhoods.
A
We
discovered
in
our
research
that
there
are
48
zip
codes
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia.
11
of
them
occupy
eighty-seven
percent
of
the
inmates
up
on
State
Road.
It
is
also
not
lost
to
us
that
in
those
11
zip
codes,
care
of
those
populations
come
from
those
are
where
most
of
the
23
schools
we
closed
come
from,
and
so,
if
you
can
find
what
the
causes
are
the
kid
can't
read
by
the
time
they're
four
years
old
up
to
par.
We
know
how
many
cells
to
build
by
the
top
of
18.
A
A
Systemic
change
to
to
reduce
the
population
up
on
State
Road,
moving
those
inmates
out
reducing
recidivism
by
making
improvements
and
enhancements
to
local
re-entry
programs
and
Institute
evidence-based
programs
that
work
find
evidence-based
programs
that
were
that's
gonna,
be
difficult
because
every
program
can
make
you
feel
good,
but
you
have
to
know
how
much
good
cost
and
how
to
make
these
investments.
You
insisted
that
we
do
our
work
quickly,
because
we
have
the
budget
process
coming
up
and
if
we're
going
to
make
substantial
investments
in
our
criminal
justice,
we
need
to
start
that
process
now.
A
So
what
were
the
three
key
things
that
are
in
this
interim
report?
We
did.
The
report
for
the
summer
was
real,
easy,
low
hanging
fruit,
increased
jobs
for
young
people,
increase
activities
watch
out
for
hot
spots.
That
was
easy.
What
we
want
to
do
now
is
to
pay
attention
to
what
many
people
who
came
in
and
testified
before
have
reinforced
through
these
hearings
in
one
we
want
to
do
a
new
read
risk
assessment
model.
Just
because
a
person
has
a
bad
day
doesn't
make
them
a
bad
person.
A
We
have
to
figure
out
who
is
a
risk
to
themselves
and
the
rest
of
the
community
and
society,
and
we
need
to
hold
them
those
who
are
not
a
risk
to
themselves
as
I
some.
We
met
with
young
people
up
in
prison,
a
couple
of
them
that
were
there
because
they
could
not
afford
a
hundred
dollars
bail.
We
were
paying
120
+
dollars
a
day
to
keep
them.
There
does
not
make
sense.
Second
thing
that
we
want
to
invest
in
is
GPS
technology
to
be
able
to
say
I.
A
You
want
to
go
home,
but
you
do
have
to
get
out
of
here.
So
at
the
end
of
the
day,
we
want
to
shift
from
re-entry
to
pre
entry,
which
is
prevention.
We've
heard
a
lot
of
good
testimony
from
a
lot
of
good
people,
we're
taking
it
to
heart
and
I
want
to.
Thank
you
again
for
emphasizing
that
we
put
our
money
where
our
mouth
is
that
if
we
are
really
trying
to
change
this
paradigm,
then
we
have
an
opportunity
to
do
it
and
we
have
it
within
our
means
to
get
it
done.
Thank
You.