He is a prime example. Talks shit about immigration then votes on the bill that supports Ukraine and does crap about immigration. He is getting tore up on his FB page.

Senator Kennedy has been a very good liberal with his recent votes

You know it!

So did Kennedy mention that bond measures would be required to build new prisions. Bond measures that require higher TAXES?

Kennedy didn't vote for Ukraine. Get your story straight ! Israel he did and that's something to be proud of . ​@@jron5113

or a bad liar!

No. She is politicking in a position that does not warrant it.

lefties FAKE VIRTUES FOR HAVING NO REAL VIRTUES.

Please don't excuse these folks on incompetence. They're all smart, bright people. Something else is underway. We need some brighter people willing to stand on truth to uncover & expose what's going on.

Affirmative action quota hire.

he's awful.

He is getting up there in age so we won’t have him for long

Wish he represented my state...taxachusetts.

I will definitely continue to vote for Kennedy as long as he is remains mentally sharp.

@@93Jubilee This video implies otherwise.

It's called the Peter Principle - she has risen to the height of her incompetence.

She's keeping the prisoners in prison

Question is, what does she know?

@@Humblentough She might know about the people in her prisons, and probably nothing about them after they leave.

I wouldn't trust her as a greeter at Walmart !!!

Is Outstanding...there fixed it for U

@@JoeJoe-go4vd 😂

Jo jo seriously, are you one of the 30,000 that was released? What an idiotic response by someone who doesn't care about law and order...liberal

This administration has hired the most incompetent people I have ever heard. Even Clinton, Obama, etc. had some good people as cabinet members. There is no way Biden is for the US with all of the appointments he has placed. It's crazy

You said that right !

DID THE GOVERMENT REQUIRE IT? REALLY WHAT A STUPID QUESTION.

It's planned. Wake up

@butchnoneed the government should have to ask that. It’s common sense. Something that is very rare these days

@@enigma9971 I’m just venting

It would be interesting to know what crimes were committed by the ones being released and those who were re-arrested. It's more concerning if the crimes are violent as opposed to say, writing a bad check. These violent characters getting sent back out into society to create more injury and possibly death on the streets is a scary thought.

How! do we hold these corrupt psychopaths accountable?!

Sen Durbin just gave out the numbers. Did you miss that? It’s just 12%

I bet that number is not correct. That's why she didn't want to say it under oath. Lol

@@mainshaayartonahi27 No source cited. He "thinks" they are accurate. The other person said it was very hard to get records from previous attempts.

Sec Mayorkas tactics all over again. Does not know basic numbers.

Would have thought the prison director would have anticipated the question!!

Yes, but Kennedy has also been a part of that government for decades and hasn't done anything. All of this is just talk. He'll still send our money to Ukraine and Israel because those countries are his top priority. All of these people are on the same side: the Uniparty. There's only one and it's meant to strip us of our wealth and sell us to the highest bidder along the way.

A whole lot of people hate govt because of fools like Kennedy.

We do not trust government because of people like Senator Kennedy. Funded Ukraine war with no border wall. Voted for the bill. Yes this Senator John Kennedy

He's just another cast member in an episode of the badly scripted propagandist reality show that is our U.S. Government. 28 Years as a Public Servant in the system, at times they speak the plain truth which leads to nothing.

Unnecessarily rude though.

@@beverlyseavey7445he did apologize for interrupting sen D lol

This question is a bit disingenuous. That's not their job. That's the DOJ's job and Congress's job. It's like asking the guy who cleans your car why he didn't change the oil. She runs the prison. She released them because she was told to release them - by technically, Donald Trump.

Hell, she doesn't even know the percentage of people that even come to work.

@@brihm3869 Have you ever worked anywhere with more than 10 employees? Go into the bosses office and ask what the attendance numbers are. I'd be shocked if they know. HR may know.

​@@nealorr5086guess u dont run anything except for the toilet. Yea i have total control and yes i check in on them and yes i do control their pupose.

@nealorr5086 I worked for the federal government fot 10 years, and did 24 years in the military. As well as running a restaurant. HR under the branch I worked couldn't wipe their own asses. The managers hide in their. office. We were a public service and it shamed me the way they wasted resources.

compassionate release programs require that for prisoners to be eligible, they must have “chronic, permanent, terminal, or irreversible physical or mental illness, condition, or disease” with some states requiring further prognosis requirements, usually of six or 12 months

this is for nonviolent drug crimes not for people in prison for gun or violent crimes

​@Baylonfrisbee what is a gun crime?

@@2kjaypay513 a crime where a gun was involved not all crimes with guns are violent you can point a gun at someone and be charged

Kennedy truly loves our nation!!! USA 🇺🇸

God bless kennedy

No! He voted for Ukraine bill!!

I loved Kennedy until he voted against the will of his and the American people in the middle of the night on Super Bowl Sunday to send Ukraine and Isreal 90 billion dollars as we won't do the same thing for the needs of America. Thank God Mike Johnson and the House stood strong.

​@@ger8235Exactly! I'm still in shock.

Not incompetence....... its being done for political reasons and warped ideology.

​@@siypic Agree. They r there to collect a check n benefits and fulfill their purpose which isn't positive

Yeah, but the D.E.I. programs have worked so well

Just remember people that generally work for state and federal governments can't succeed in the private sector.

That's "mind bottling", ... like when your thoughts get caught in a bottle and can't escape! ;-)

Amen🙏🕊️🌹

and 40,000 saying, "Can we get a raise, Mommy Dearest?"

Another DEI hire.

Agreed. Any one of us would be immediately fired for such egregious incompetence.

she knows but is a j

​@@morbward8281 I was just about to say that

Because it's almost impossible to fire them, thanks to unions.

This is one of many things that's wrong with the federal government. Not only are these people incompetent but they don't even feel like they owe it to the tax payers to do a good job. How do you think she votes?

I don't know if it is the same in the USA, but in the UK if they really screw up then they don't keep their jobs, they get promoted.

Installed

Right? If I forget to sweep the floors or wash the toilet my job is at risk but this lady may have ruined hundred of thousands of lives but shes allowed to keep doing it with no risk?

She doesn't care. She knows that Biden and the majority Democrat Senate will not fire her.

No the real issue here is the SPECTACULAR cowboy amateurishness of these agencies. The computer systems required to keep track of these things, simply doesnt exist. There is no organisation keeping track of these things in the entire US legal & justice system. So whenever they do quote some %, they estimate that based on very lacking data, but they are never questioned further, so they are essentially free to make things up.

@@captain_context9991 , ummmmm, you realize you just stated my point in a different way. We agree. Lol Although, I would argue one point. How did the senator find these figures if this data isn't tracked? 🤔

@@SamBrockmann I fully expect KZfaq to have deleted the reasonable answer I just gave you. Because its hard to avoid that kind of stuff nowdays.

@@captain_context9991 , if you say so, buddy. What good does that do me?

How much money she’s getting. That’s probably it. DEI is killing this country

They never recall anything, or they probably will get the recipe from Obama chefs. 😂😂

What she knows and what she's allowed to divulge are two different things....

She's the Sgt. Schultz of that Prison System: "I know nothing!"

She doesn’t need to know

Exactly and have all the data in front of her prepared by her and her subordinates period! Fire this lady on the spot for dereliction of duty!!

Then the data looks bad and she doesn’t want to answer.

Considering the overall crime drop and drop in prisoners in total I'd say things are improving.

crime drops when you don’t charge people … funny how that works. @@DarkepyonX

So many of these people seem to have no idea about their government job.

Typical liberals!

Women in these positions are the problem period.

I wonder how she got her position? Unfortunately, many women go up on that ladder of success by whom they know or blow!

@@Linbear0126DEI of course gotta be female or a POC and or LGBTQ. No qualifications needed

​@@clintpower1Bang on 100%

Fired? The Democrats will promote her.

This entire administration is like this . DEI promotion is what she will get. Biden said he was going to do this look at Kamala that tells us all we need to know

But DEI!!!!!

Sadly yes the Dims will give her a raise.

Durbin thinks she is doing her job very well. That says it all.

I agree but berating her and shaming her in the panel was overboard and very rude. I found Senator Kennedy's overall conduct to be aggressive and rude. Totally unnecessary. Yes it is a shame she must bear but he didn't need to keep harping on it in this forum. A private chastisement would have been more appropriate if the first statement of disbelief wasn't enough. Senator Kennedy was right to expect her to come prepared with the data he demanded but his behavior was rude and offensive.

Aren't you a bit touchy about the Senator style of questioning? Answer the question!!​@BarbaraEMarshallCampbell

​@@BarbaraEMarshallCampbell we need this kind of questioning in PUBLIC. Private chastisement does not work.She is director of a very important agency,and she has NO idea what's going on.

​@@BarbaraEMarshallCampbellher not doing her job is even more rude to the people being victimized by the same criminals they release without keeping any tabs on them. I don't think her ego or feelings matter in this situation and her job is much too important to the United States and the public' safety for her to be so incompetent don't you think?

​@BarbaraEMarshallCampbell The fact that she doesn't know anything is because she does nothing! You don't have a problem with that I bet. The heck with govt waste from top to bottom, the heck with corruption, it's about feelings, right? You're part of the problem.

He doesn't play games gotta love Kennedy

Or wet your pants!!! This man is always prepared, you better be ready for him.

I don’t trust him anymore after he voted for Biden’s border bill and the language in it about letting a maximum of 5000 people a day and give illegals a lot of financial support??? no way Jose!!

I love him they got better be prepared he is good.

Because there's no consequences for their inability to answer

😂😂😂😂 I dont know, but you can bet these 'People" will tell you !!

Not public safety. Money. Less people in prison less people to feed.

@@WanRa28 Yes, but they said it was public safety. That’s how we know they’re lying.

The purpose of prison should be rehabilitation and not forever punishment or isolation. Many criminals are also placed into the system wrongly. I know a financial and tax "criminal" was placed into jail for time longer than Al Capone by totally wrong conviction. The person got a 17 year prison time for selling a financial product not invented by him to 6 people. Tax crime should be no more than 5 years. Yet, the court used the standard to have consecutive sentence to give him 17 years. That is more than Bernie Madoff who committed financial fraud for 64 billions dollars and more than many murderers. He retained 2 attorneys to verify that financial product for him before he recommended the product. The court said that he invented and led the product because his company's name has two same words as the group who invented the financial products. Once one lower level court wrote this sentence wrongly into the order and opinion, the upper court just simply copy the same sentence as truth especially when DOJ also says so. When during 2008 financial crisis, no one financial advisor or institution was punished. Once the DOJ comes to your front door, one has no way to be out. DOJ is not for justice. DOJ is there to win. DOJ totally bombards its procedures with overwhelmingly, hundreds and thousands of pages of documents, and hundreds of witnesses, and monthly or procedures to hide any evidence and arguments favoring the accused. Try to fight DOJ. One just does not have the money or even qualified attorney to counter the system. Do not use the "criminals" of the federal level lightly. Just wait until the DOJ comes to your front door to see. No one can fight DOJ no matter whether it is SEC cases, IRS cases, etc. Have you seen one case which has been prosecuted by the DOJ went innocent judgment? Have you seen one? I probably can see one. Watch the movie of Abacus: Small Enough to Jail. the only bank has ever been prosecuted by DOJ for the 2008 financial crises. If the owner of the bank does not have his entire daughter group as lawyers, working for free, he probably could not avoid that, too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus:_Small_Enough_to_Jail That is why our criminal system needs reform and complete reform. Do you know that this New Act was supported by many black congress persons? There is a reason for that. The person I am referring is white. Even whites are treated as such. No one can win DOJ. The word of "criminal" should not be treated and categorized lightly. The word cannot be trusted -- Let's put it this way. We are a police state now -- just in case you have not known that.

@@fionachen7076 I’d say 100% of us are talking about violent criminals, the not white collar variety.

oh she knows exactly whats going on she is a liar all fnn liars

These federal bureaucrats have no respect for conservatives and could not care less about giving answers.

They just don't care...

It's called plausible deniability... Lawyers school all their witnesses before testimony

Congressman Kennedy should require them to state their pay grade before answering questions!!! 12.5 percent is not acceptable, no matter how many you think are successful!?!! Semper Fidelis American Patriots Let's Go Brandon MAGA WINNING TRUMP 2024.

HE SUPPORTS THE UKRAINE WAR

It just doesn't matter. She knows it

Because she's a liberal.

DEI

Dei hire

No consequences. She goes back to her office as if nothing happened.

They don’t work! They collect!

By design. Ref.: "Doublespeak" by William Lutz.

DJT pleaded the 5 amendment 500 times

That's a good question.

@@bisoprolol62 Do you like paying more for stuff and getting less, like you currently are?

So why are they there

@@christinefoster9289cause they are the cousins nextdoor neighbors, of some senator......

Unfreaking believable...

And they control your life.

They're highly credentialed. May degrees from various woke universities.

What dei do they fall under

​@@jeanalice4732😂❤

Geez! 🤦‍♀️OMG! Is right! Head in the sand much! No accountability!!!

These Hireling NitWits are 'Broken.' The System-if Followed-does work. NitWits like these, are the problem. Too Bad they Disrespect We The Ppl, Our Constitution, & Their Oath's.

Welcome to socialism

Broken yes but corruption

And they are the very reason it's broken.

This is intentional

Dick Dodge!

You mean the guy who had the facts?

Since Durbin knows so much, why didn't he say how many of those more than 3000 who were released and then committed another crime were actually charged with murdering someone.

The peoples

Durbin is a poster boy for term limits!

I suspect she really is that incompetent. The government is replete with incompetent people who don't do their job very well, if at all. Striving for mediocrity describes the majority of government workers.

Did you not watch the whole video....

Let's you know how bad the truth is

​@PrinceFluffy you mean the part where someone else answered the questions? Cuz she didn't have any answers at all. Idk why she was even there.

She didn't appear incompetent. Sen. Kennedy was asking her questions that weren't in her purview.

I SAY SHE DONT EVEN KNOW WHATS GOING ON IN HER HOME,OR IT COULD B SHE FEARS HER JOB ,🤔

Yes that is amazing, you worked in Oregon's prison system and said you hold Oregon close to your heart ( something like that) yet you don't know what's going on in Oregon and you are now the Fed Dir of prisons🤔 ? You just dont give #*%#! Obviously in it for the power,$$$ and a security with an insane retirement pkg. Infuriating!! Lord, protect the victims/ families of these released criminals. In Jesus name I pray.Amen✝️

Shes a democrat appointee. Thats how she can be in that position. Incompetence and blue politics go hand in hand.

DEI is the reason this woman is in office.

@@skylarc6063 people die when people like her makes mistakes

She either pretended to not know the answer to every simple question or it’s clear she never showed up for even one day of work.

You nailed it @deejames1st

To succeed in the oratorical business of politics, you need to become as good at back peddling, whenever immediately required,as Senator Kennedy.

@@aclifford652 Quit deflecting. He wasn’t the one who could not even answer simple questions about the job, and who was evading accountability here.

​If First Steps is actually working, who cares that bureacracies are not keeping precise statistics one way or another. This is a subject I'd rather be something of a libertarian about than, perhaps, an unthinking, or instinctive conservative. And I think he realised that himself, in the end.

They are there to answer no questions. To obfuscate. To let no information slip. Their bosses high in the administration tell them to answer nothing, to claim they do not know, to state that "they will look into it and get back to them". They are told that it doesn't matter if they look unprepared, stupid and incompetent as long as they don't tell Congress the truth about how things are done and how the money is being spent. They do not want the public knowing what they are doing.

No, it's NOT shocking. It's a fact of life. Same thing, with the UNI-Party in U.S. Inc. FAKE politicians making FAKE laws.

And what do you think most of the military is then a giant money pit? College tuitions?! CIA-FBI-NSA? Fkn NASA!

Not a surprise

Knowing she would be questioned today.

Too bad Sen.Kennedy is more likely to vote with the RINOs than with hard conservatives.

Very seriously doubt that! ​@@jamestheelder87

WHEN DID HE DO THAT​@@jamestheelder87

First step act signed into law by Donald Trump.

Yes, because the majority said yes for the bill.

If the bill did not require her agency to gather this info, and provide the money to hire someone to collect the data, why would you expect her to know the data.

Like that Simpsons episode where 1000 monkeys were writing a novel for Mr Burns!!..lol.

@@conniechapin9278 but how come that guy knew? it wasn't his job...

​@vuton7670 He doesn't know. He's just spewing out random statistics. That why he said he wouldn't swear to it under oath. Besides, if no one Is getting arrested anymore, then obviously none of those 30k are "repeat customers" and they can say "see, it's working".

With this government & wokey crap is anyone really surprised lol?

Attorney General Garland has said "I don't know" NUMEROUS times when interviewed. Government bureaucrats as we know them, have a truly terminal illness of incompetence and there seems to be no end in sight.

Lol, you’ve got to be kidding me if you think a republican has never refused to answer a question, has cited the fifth amendment, has said “i dont know”, or has refused to appear for lawful subpoenas. But yeah, keep up the hypocrisy 👍

​@@992turbos Pretty sure they said director and didn't say republican or Democrat so who cares?

Because she is simply the final placeholder for powers that be

@@richdilorenzo8145 no.... it is all a choice. And choices come with consequence, because they didn't have to do it. They chose to. Fairytales never go on forever.

HALF of us Americans HAVE lost their way, complete madness IS going on.

Welcome to Progressivism. Keep that in mind whenever someone bad-mouths conservatives, or even Trump - the Progressives idolize George Soros, Bill Gates, and Klaus Schwab, all of whom want Americans under their fascist boot (for Americans' own good, to be sure)...

Exactly. That's close to one to one odds. That's TOTALLY INEXCUSEABLE. There HAS to be ONE department that keeps track of these numbers....(I think qe should find out)

40,000 employees, and who are paying there wages ? Oh let me guess," we the people"😢😢😢

They can they just chose not to. They don’t care what happens to the country.

My thoughts exactly. I'm from the UK with no knowledge of her role and yet I'm confident I'd have been more impressive.

It's a stalling tactic from the DNC playbook. Get up there and say I don't know all day long. She of course will be out of a job in due time, but she's stalling for the DNC for the time being. I think leftist lies are catching up to them much faster than they can handle.

She knows nothing will happen to her....like all of them that go along with the destruction of the USA.

Purposefully. With the intent to hide the truth or delay telling the truth. She said she had the Exact number, then we got an about 30,000...

There hiding it liar liar liar pants on fire

Yep, I think the 34 trillion in debt is a perfect example of what government spending has done for the United States. Just a bunch of clowns 🤡 who can’t count.

I wholeheartedly agree that several of these lying deceitful Corrupt Manipulators should be held accountable for their actions unfortunately there's no one except for President Trump who has a mug shot WOW lord have mercy on us all please pray Americans because God's keeping perfect records.

With noo retirement too!

Maybe, probably...I wouldn't want her job.

She is doing exactly the job the way George Soros wants it.

LOVE him

Drain the swamp

I still only see hard questions and no one being fired. Hard questions without consequences is absolutely mind boggling.

Love Sen. Kennedy..He's one of the few Senators I do like.

@@tonyjones2994Me too. Unfortunately, he voted for the Ukraine bill.

and escalate in the severity of crimes

We know.

Walgreens agrees with your statement.

I'm also a former criminal, I did my time and lost most of my good time. I spent almost 4 years in prison. But it's been 12 years and I haven't even gotten a speeding ticket, because fuck doing all that again 😅

@@brian8319 You are a statistical anomaly

I agree. Because they won't admit to the error.

This warden is not convincing. She looks and talks like she doesn't know anything pertaining to the new rules. She's getting paid for her stupidity. Even the general director is not all there. Their just falsely planted in position not for them to perform right.

I was very much hoping that senator Kennedy actually had the numbers and was about to read them. She knows the answer but looking incompetent is better than looking corrupt.

My mouth is on the floor

arrogance and ignorance is dangerous

Amen 🙏🌹🕊️🇬🇧

Fourth thousand people. Unreal paid by taxpayers. Staff number needs to be cut drastically.

Gravy train! Jobs for life and NO ACCOUNTABILITY.Shame on them all.

Don't be fooled! They know the answer. They refuse to tell it and play dumb!

Quite enlightening Eric. A breakthrough on the part of Gomer Kennedy for sure. We are all so much more enlightened now thanks to his brilliant insight.

@@richardgreen2200 There's sadness behind your anger.

Senator Kennedy rocks😊

@@richardgreen2200sad mimicry of lightwork. You’re just complaining. Grow up.

Probably because he is the only one that isn't bought and paid for.

So the release act was passed in 2018 to as Sen Kennedy put it "release criminals." Which president signed that into law?

Thank God Dick Durbin responded, Stay strong Dick.

@@riverotter68 Nice try but Trump was not responsible for releasing them. That is for parole and local counties. LOL FAIL!

Love him❤

Like to know what her salary is...

She needs to be jailed.

Agreed, but if no one asked her to provide this data so that the program could be evaluated, who is really at fault?

She should know the recidivism rate and it should be common knowledge for 40000 employees.

where's he been , and - where are the others ? he can't do anything by himself

@@janebrown3587 why is he a kook ? tell me one thing he said that isn't reasonable ? The federal prison system is a cess pool of corruption and it always has been - if you don't know this then umm - maybe you should stick with cartoons - just sayin

​@janebrown3587 you say he is a "kook"-- are you thinking of RFK, the other Kennedy, because I have heard him called a "kook"-- I think you have the wrong Kennedy.

@@janebrown3587 This man has numerous accolades. He is extremely intelligent so do not let the down home southern gentleman persona fool you. He is probably light years ahead of you intellectually. Senator Kennedy graduated from Zachary High School as co-valedictorian in 1969. He then attended Vanderbilt University, where his interdepartmental major was in political science, philosophy and economics. He graduated magna cum laude.At Vanderbilt, Kennedy was elected president of his senior class and named to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a Juris Doctor in 1977 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an executive editor of the Virginia Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. In 1979, he earned a Bachelor of Civil Law degree with first class honours from Oxford University, where he was a member of Magdalen College and studied under Rupert Cross and John H.C. Morris. Senator Kennedy is an extremely accomplished man. You obviously know nothing about him. I hope the information above proves that it is not he who is a “kook”. You must be looking in the mirror.

He's just another comic book character in this literal wrestling "show". People love to love the "good guy". It's a uniparty, folks...

Senator Durbin was all over that information.

Kennedy needs to be our next AG. Trump could use him well. And Hunter thinks that HE can hold a grudge? 😆 🤣 😂

@georgewood7381 Hunter is a regular citizen. I don't understand why no one is upset about Ivanka's husband, Kushner. Kushner wasn't even able to pass the basic security clearance to get confidential information, yet he was shoved in there by Don Trump. Hunter has never even worked in the White House. Think about it. Even Traitor Marge brought in X rated pictures of Hunter into the chamber for all to see. So uncalled for. Trump is already a useful American Idiot for Putin. I think Kennedy stands for the constitution and won't let Donald step all over it. I hope I'm right.

They're not going anywhere. No one in the government has anything to be concerned about being punished for wrong doing. This country is in very very deep trouble. I'm glad that I'm old.

Amen to that!

I'm about your age. I swear we woke up one day in Opposite Universe! Sure feels that way to me. Did you catch Durbin's propaganda? Fewer recidivism cases because they're not even taking them to court. Dismissing cases. So of course fewer numbers. I am so angry about all that's happening. I want old USA back. I doubt it will ever be.

Yep, I’m with you on that statement.

I’m only 32 and I have no idea what is going on with society today nothing makes any sense!!

That is politics for you.

AMEN, agree 100% Gracee!!! GODs good blessings upon you today and always friend.

he didnt fight. he submitted to fucking durbin

@eadon1963 He's outranked, what do you want him to do, insurrection and be removed by the Sergeant of Arms? Then be held in contempt? People have to vote and take the Senate out of the hands of Democrats and then the shoe will be on the other foot. Of course the Democrats will attempt to continue to rig elections, that's going to be harder now that people are waking up to that fact. We'll be watching.

​@@rafewheadon1963Remember he said he would like to see the study which gave Durbin the figures. He like to have his facts before he dispute the figures. Always remember, you get white lies, lies and stats.

He's all talk no action. Nothing is done to stop this. It will continue after this hearing.

He got smacked upside his head by the other senator and then shut up. Not quite the ‘own’ you think it is.