5:52 P.M.: Brown, Garamendi Make an Impression On 18-Year-Old From Redlands

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Hello all! I am so very excited! Today was another day where I was able to converse with my party fellows. I was also privileged enough to be able to hear two very invigorating speakers. State Attorney General Jerry Brown and Lt. Gov. John Garamendi are two very interesting gentlemen and I would love to hear them speak again. I agreed with much of what they said and their stances on many issues. I really enjoyed myself and it seemed every one else in the exhibit hall enjoyed themselves as well.

The first that I heard speak was Brown. He spoke on many subjects but mainly the stressed prison system and the underfunded education system. I was quite surprised when he spoke of a statistic I was unfamiliar with. Brown said that the California prison system lets out thousands of inmates a day but incarcerates the same number of people a day; the prison intake is equal to it's output. I found that after a little research that it was true. I find that a little odd. Isn't the point of getting out prison to make a better life for yourself after you've done the time?

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5:52 P.M.: Brown, Garamendi Make an Impression On 18-Year-Old From Redlands

Brown said that the reason our prison systems are failing is because we fail to provide any sort of true rehabilitation or job training for an inmate while they are incarcerated. They have no support sy...

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