I talked to a prisoner, he got out, he cannot get a job.

I do not think they have improved.

I am going to offer an amendment to require or allow an increase in work, a demonstration project whereby they will make products that are no longer made in the United States.

To find employment is the answer.

The problem is that this Congress has diminished the amount of work that prisoners can do.

I think it is the most extensive since I have worked in this institution, that there has been so much time spent.

I think it has to be so truly bipartisan that it stands the test no matter who comes at it.

Well, maybe what we could do, Mr. Chairman, if my amendment is successful to be carried and we can convince the Congress, we could take the money that goes into Prison Industries and thus reclaiming industries that are no longer in the…

I think you just solved the answer of prison rehab-- I think that is the answer.

I think we need a best practices list and someone has to say what are the most successful programs.

I think you have a right to be as mad as hell that we cannot provide security for our prison guards.

the gang issue, if you are part of a gang and you come out, you may then--if you are having a hard time, and the comment I wanted to make is I guess you are going to have a harder time now with the economy being what it is.

You do better by spending money to make certain that there are supportive families and supportive communities.

If we want to fight crime we have to do what the research tells us.

I think the fact that you have this panel probably makes these hearings well worth it.

There must be a tremendous amount of reinvestment, not just in terms of whole dollars.

I think your unemployment rate is 10 percent.

The question, I think, for state legislators across the country, is what is the balance between funding for incarceration and funding for reinvestment in the community?