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From the Ted Talk by Robin Steinberg and Manoush Zomorodi: The US is addicted to incarceration. Here's how to break the cycle

Unscramble the Blue Letters

RS: So when we're hiring for local jurisdictions, we always hire locally. If we open a site in Baton Rouge, we hire people from botan Rouge and are connected to the community. We try to prioritize people with lived experience in the criminal legal sytesm, or people who have been plaorselny impacted by the system. We think it's important, they understand the system best, they have the best solutions because they're closest to the problem and they're cderible mesgeesnrs for the clients that we're going to be ietinirnwevg and providing bail for.

Open Cloze

RS: So when we're hiring for local jurisdictions, we always hire locally. If we open a site in Baton Rouge, we hire people from _____ Rouge and are connected to the community. We try to prioritize people with lived experience in the criminal legal ______, or people who have been __________ impacted by the system. We think it's important, they understand the system best, they have the best solutions because they're closest to the problem and they're ________ __________ for the clients that we're going to be ____________ and providing bail for.

Solution

  1. credible
  2. personally
  3. system
  4. baton
  5. interviewing
  6. messengers

Original Text

RS: So when we're hiring for local jurisdictions, we always hire locally. If we open a site in Baton Rouge, we hire people from Baton Rouge and are connected to the community. We try to prioritize people with lived experience in the criminal legal system, or people who have been personally impacted by the system. We think it's important, they understand the system best, they have the best solutions because they're closest to the problem and they're credible messengers for the clients that we're going to be interviewing and providing bail for.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
criminal legal 13
legal system 11
criminal justice 7
cash bail 4
pay bail 3
revolving bail 3
bail fund 3
justice reform 3
bail project 3
ted radio 2
public defender 2
immigration status 2
jail cells 2
release people 2
bail reform 2
system operates 2
bringing people 2
local jail 2
worthy goal 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
criminal legal system 10
revolving bail fund 3
criminal justice reform 3

Important Words

  1. bail
  2. baton
  3. clients
  4. closest
  5. community
  6. connected
  7. credible
  8. criminal
  9. experience
  10. hire
  11. hiring
  12. impacted
  13. important
  14. interviewing
  15. jurisdictions
  16. legal
  17. lived
  18. local
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  20. messengers
  21. open
  22. people
  23. personally
  24. prioritize
  25. problem
  26. providing
  27. rouge
  28. site
  29. solutions
  30. system
  31. understand