07/09/2014
https://www.congress.gov...
"the best way to invest is to not have to have this level of system, an expensive system that sometimes works"
"40 to 45 percent of the children that are in custody in our State's juvenile system are Alaska Native children"
"What is needed is federal legislation which recognizes the authority of our tribal governments to deal in the first instance with issues of local domestic violence, sexual assault, and substance abuse..."
"As we talk about how we deal with the issues of recidivism, of reentry, of rehabilitation, what I've heard from all of you, whether it's the state approach or tribal or here in Anchorage, it's this co..."