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You can be an immigrant and be eligible to be president. You merely must have been born before the 1790s. That's how both Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul are/were eligible.

To the extent that rent control might reduce evictions, those benefits are rarely, if ever, baked into economists' models.

Wait, why would creating an incentive to evict for trivial reasons (recent example: teenage kid was smoking in the house without parents permission) result in fewer evictions?

I volunteered at San Quentin for a bit, the "Teach in Prison" program. Formerly "Bears Behind Bars."

It was crazy how under-supported the education program was. The ESL teacher didn't even speak Spanish. At the same time it was very inspiring to see how dead seriously these folks took whatever opportunities were afforded them.

But then we were also told that folks actually try to get into San Quentin from other California prisons because at least there is something. I was and am a bit skeptical.

Is there actually some sort of hierarchy of California prisons? How much control, if any, do you have over where you do your time?

I also always felt relatively safe when walking through the yard unescorted. Never saw any violence. Is everyone on their "best behavior" when volunteers are walking through "or else," or is it typically as mellow as what I could see on the surface?

It recently came out that the FBI forensics division actively manipulates data and gives misleading testimony to help secure convictions and keep the pipeline of future incarcerated persons flowing.

It appears that the FBI itself is somehow now responsible for correcting the FBI's own malicious activity. This seems like a less-than-credible approach.

Are you guys (either the California Innocence Project, or your national/federal counterparts) going to get your hands on that evidence for your own independent review?

Just how big of a "watershed moment" do you feel this is?

(Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html )

You guys mentioned mental health services earlier. Putting incarcerated persons in the prison nearest to their loved ones would seem like the most cost effective mental health initiative in the entire universe.