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Joseph Moody: “Poor people do worse in the criminal justice system.”

Featuring: Joseph Moody, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 78

Criminal Justice The Next Five Years

Published October 7, 2015 | Video Starts at 40:02

But, but how does that get into every conversation? No, but, no, no. Actually the point that you brought up is poverty. Poverty and criminal justice. Poor people do worse in the criminal justice system. Why? And you heard it during this conversation. If you're in the county jail, can't afford the bond, you're going to plead guilty. (40:02–40:06)

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Asserts that socioeconomic status negatively impacts outcomes in the criminal justice system.

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“There was widespread opposition by most campuses that I heard from [regarding campus carry].”
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“Campus carry was passed this legislative session.”
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“I voted against [campus carry], but there's a component of that legislation that was placed in the bill to allow your campus to have a say.”
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“You can regulate who can get weapons. That's your background checks where they can go with those weapons.”
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“It's going to be very hard to move forward to regulate in Texas anyway, to regulate in any three of those arenas.”
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“Who gets those weapons is the area that I think we should probably focus on the most.”
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“The larger issue is illegal gun ownership.”
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“We've done a poor job of funding healthcare in the state.”
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“We have done very poorly for a very long time [in mental health funding].”
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“In El Paso, there are significant mental health resources that are needed.”
Criminal Justice The Next Five Years | Uploaded October 7, 2015 | 14:35-14:47
“Governor Perry brought up mental health as something we need to do better about.”
Criminal Justice The Next Five Years | Uploaded October 7, 2015 | 15:03-15:20
“Governor Abbott's kind of followed in that message [on mental health].”
Criminal Justice The Next Five Years | Uploaded October 7, 2015 | 15:03-15:20
“We need to gather that bipartisanship... and really try to fix this [mental health issues].”
Criminal Justice The Next Five Years | Uploaded October 7, 2015 | 15:28-15:28
“Sandra Bland should have never been in the jail to begin with.”
Criminal Justice The Next Five Years | Uploaded October 7, 2015 | 24:05-24:14
“She [Representative McLendon] passed a bill that she'd been working on for years to look at those exonerees in their cases.”
Criminal Justice The Next Five Years | Uploaded October 7, 2015 | 24:12-51:43
“It's extremely rare to arrest someone for a traffic offense in Texas.”
Criminal Justice The Next Five Years | Uploaded October 7, 2015 | 24:31-24:34
“Non-Anglos tend to be subjected to traffic stops at a higher rate than Anglos and larger than their population percentages.”
Criminal Justice The Next Five Years | Uploaded October 7, 2015 | 25:07-25:13
“Those that are arrested for those traffic citations are even more representative, so that there is something going on there.”
Criminal Justice The Next Five Years | Uploaded October 7, 2015 | 25:16-25:23
“The answer that we got, at least that they gave to Texas Tribune, was we don't really have an answer to why this is happening.”
Criminal Justice The Next Five Years | Uploaded October 7, 2015 | 25:23-25:31
“You probably do want to get what you consider felony drug offenders, those maybe without violent history, out of the prison system.”
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“When you look at decriminalizing possessions of small amounts of marijuana, now that's locally. It's a local tax cost.”
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“They had bipartisan support, didn't ultimately get on the floor for a full vote.”
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“We penalize by weight. So when you look at drug offenses, we look at weight.”
Criminal Justice The Next Five Years | Uploaded October 7, 2015 | 32:38-32:42
“Maybe you don't give them the 25, you know, 25 years minimum.”
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“That's something that I've been starting to work on during this interim.”
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“There’s an absolute disparity [in the criminal justice system].”
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“We're failing the future of Texas by not doing a good job in our education.”
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“Your educational attainment bears on whether you're going to have interaction with the criminal [justice system].”
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“We have a hearing about [the death penalty] every session.”
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“I met a gentleman who was on death row, who was exonerated, who was not guilty of the crime.”
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“If we have a system that can have those types of errors, what do we need to do?”
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“Ultimately in my lifetime, you'll see the death penalty come to an end in the United States.”
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“I don't think it's going to happen in the next five years in Texas.”
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“Over the next few months, we're going to be looking at all those cases and doing a diagnosis.”
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“There was grand jury reform passed this session that took away the key man system.”
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“If we're not giving [students] the tools that they're able to help out with, our counselors at our schools, if they're making sure that we…”
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