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00:37:16,442 --> 00:37:19,570 <i>to make room for incoming</i> <i>three-strike prisoners.</i> 606 00:37:19,654 --> 00:37:21,823 It's in line with many other policies we've created, 607 00:37:21,907 --> 00:37:23,616 <i>particularly mandatory minimums.</i> 608 00:37:23,699 --> 00:37:27,453 "Mandatory sentencing." We said we were no longer going to let judges 609 00:37:27,537 --> 00:37:29,831 consider the circumstances around a crime. 610 00:37:29,915 --> 00:37:32,250 We're just going to impose a mandatory sentence. 611 00:37:32,333 --> 00:37:33,835 And that's a difficult thing for judges 612 00:37:33,919 --> 00:37:37,756 because they are trying to dispense justice on a daily basis 613 00:37:37,839 --> 00:37:39,715 and are unable to do so. 614 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,262 [reporter] <i>In many California communities,</i> <i>all civil trials have been canceled</i> 615 00:37:44,345 --> 00:37:46,222 <i>to catch up</i> <i>with the criminal case workload.</i> 616 00:37:46,306 --> 00:37:49,184 [Glenn E. Martin] <i>We've taken discretion</i> <i>away from judges,</i> 617 00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:51,394 arguably the most neutral party in the court, 618 00:37:51,477 --> 00:37:53,897 and given it over to prosecutors. 619 00:37:53,980 --> 00:38:00,737 Ninety-five percent of elected prosecutors throughout the United States are white. 620 00:38:00,821 --> 00:38:04,950 Serious, violent criminals serve at least 85% of their sentence. 621 00:38:05,033 --> 00:38:07,786 [Stevenson] <i>We passed Truth in Sentencing</i> <i>that kept people imprisoned</i> 622 00:38:07,869 --> 00:38:09,204 <i>for 85% of their sentence.</i> 623 00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:12,665 [Martin] <i>Truth in Sentencing.</i> <i>You're sentenced to an amount of time.</i> 624 00:38:12,748 --> 00:38:14,125 <i>The public wants to be confident</i> 625 00:38:14,209 --> 00:38:17,087 <i>that you're gonna do</i> <i>just about every bit of that time.</i> 626 00:38:17,170 --> 00:38:19,005 We've done away with parole. 627 00:38:19,089 --> 00:38:24,177 So, in the federal system, when you get 20 years or 30 years, that's what you got. 628 00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:25,929 We had parole in this country 629 00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:29,057 as a mechanism for getting people out of jails and prisons 630 00:38:29,140 --> 00:38:31,852 when it was clear that they were no longer a threat to public safety. 631 00:38:31,935 --> 00:38:35,521 Sharanda has spent the last 16 years in prison, and she'll die there, 632 00:38:35,605 --> 00:38:37,899 because she was sentenced to life without parole. 633 00:38:37,983 --> 00:38:39,985 Her only crime? Transporting cocaine. 634 00:38:40,068 --> 00:38:42,904 And when I say "only crime," I mean only crime. 635 00:38:42,988 --> 00:38:44,739 She had no other arrests. None. 636 00:38:44,823 --> 00:38:50,703 The judge was required... required to send Sharanda away for life. 637 00:38:50,787 --> 00:38:53,832 [Clinton] <i>Longer sentences,</i> <i>three strikes and you're out,</i> 638 00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:58,419 almost 60 new capital punishment offenses... 639 00:38:58,503 --> 00:39:00,588 [Mauer] <i>And then comes the Congress</i> 640 00:39:00,671 --> 00:39:06,344 with a proposal for a $30 billion federal crime bill of 1994 641 00:39:06,427 --> 00:39:10,515 that was heavily loaded towards law enforcement incarceration. 642 00:39:10,598 --> 00:39:13,935 I propose a 21st century crime bill 643 00:39:14,018 --> 00:39:16,354 to deploy the latest technologies and tactics 644 00:39:16,437 --> 00:39:19,190 <i>to make our communities even safer.</i> 645 00:39:19,274 --> 00:39:21,276 That omnibus crime bill was responsible 646 00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:24,779 for a massive expansion of the prison system. 647 00:39:24,863 --> 00:39:29,450 <i>And beyond that, it provided all kinds</i> <i>of money and perverse incentives</i> 648 00:39:29,534 --> 00:39:31,953 for law enforcement to do a lot of the things 649 00:39:32,037 --> 00:39:34,164 that we nowadays consider to be abusive. 650 00:39:34,247 --> 00:39:39,044 It will be used to build prisons to keep 100,000 violent criminals off the street. 651 00:39:39,127 --> 00:39:42,713 [Stevenson] <i>Not only does he increase</i> <i>funding to states to build prisons</i> 652 00:39:42,797 --> 00:39:46,301 <i>to lock up as many people</i> <i>involved in drug crimes,</i> 653 00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:49,804 but also to put 100,000 police officers on the street. 654 00:39:49,888 --> 00:39:55,726 Crime has been a hot political issue used too often to divide us. 655 00:39:55,810 --> 00:39:58,438 What President Clinton did in 1994 656 00:39:58,521 --> 00:40:02,317 is actually far more harmful than his predecessors 657 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,111 because he actually built that infrastructure that we see today, 658 00:40:05,195 --> 00:40:10,951 the militarization all the way down to small, rural police departments 659 00:40:11,034 --> 00:40:13,078 that have SWAT teams. 660 00:40:13,161 --> 00:40:15,163 [Cobb] <i>And again we see</i> <i>this kind of