MUM has a history of working on issues of restorative justice for 32 years. What we do specifically is the re-entry piece and specifically this project, which is called 'The Journey Home.' We work with housing, employment, support and treatment for formerly incarcerated men and women.

Unfortunately, we have a history with hurricanes. We have a fairly standard operating process.

This is about history, it is about how our justice system responded to the worst terrorist attack on our soil.

It is being blind to history not to recognize that the criminal justice system has been trained on the African-American community to try to control it, contain it, to break its spirit.

It is rather tragic, as I look back upon legislative history for the past 20 years, that there has not been more appraisal, that there has not been more careful assessment of the things which we have set in motion in the legislative branch. That is one particular reason why I think there ought to be an automatic time limit.

I wouldn't say we're the best (every year). But to be the best you have to go through us. I thought they were a very scrappy team, had a lot of hustle and were basketball savvy.