Ted Lieu actually said...

"It says that in the first week after release, prisoners have a 12 times higher chance of dying in that very first week."

"Thank you all for sharing your stories and the great work that you have done."

"There is one specific area that I worked on. It is arts in corrections, and for some prisoners going through programs related to art or through acting seems to have a transformative effect on them."

"To me it is really sort of an emotional management course cloaked as acting, but it seems quite transformative."