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-- adam may follows up on private health care. also, collateral damage in the war on drugs. casualties include the guilty and the innocent. convicted? >> they can't lock me up for this. >> sara hoy on our monday tri sentences cause havoc on lives and justice. putting his best foot forward for more than 50 years. >> i want to know now baby. '70s, soul, the spinners. now a new generation is lying out a dream, but sticking with a promise. you know, i'll be around.

good evening thanks for joining u i'm joie chen. for six months we have vetted ealeses of abuse and cover up in the treatment of team-mates. they are not the most sympathetic characters, but the law protects them from inhumane treatment. the allegations we heard that the prison system turning over health for to for-private companies left prisoners vulnerable to dangerous and deadly treatment. our foerkz on "crime and punishment" led to this investigation by aaron may. >> one of the happiest days of our life. >> it was a release from prison after spending two years for a drug conviction. >> we have someone waiting. >> that is her baby daughter,

delivered while she was spending time in prison. >> you're here, i thought it was just dad. hi, honey. >> but the reunion with her daughter is not easy. >> hello. can you say hello. >> reporter: 11-month-old rhylan has been living with her grandparents ever since she was born and has met her mother a handful of times. >> she didn't want me, it [ bleep ]. >> it shouldn't blooep bloop you off. >> it -- [ bleep ] you off. >> it does, it hurts. >> she is glad that rhyl jp is healthy, after receiving health care that was jockingly substandard. it was provided by a private company contracted by the state. she says it was so bad she fears for her child's life. >> i wanted an ultrasound.

every time i wept in i'd measure three weeks under. i wasn't gaining enough weight. i said "i don't think that this due date is right." but they never. >> regan had doubts about the due date, she said prison doctors september her to a hospital to endues labour, performing a c section against her wishes much. >> reporter: you think they induced a c section because they hospital. it. >> reporter: that was the beginning. "america tonight" began to investigate the privatized care in arizona prisons last year. at that time regan called from prison telling us what happened after they gave pirth. >> after you had the c section, what happened to you? >>

. >> reporter:. >> reporter: back up for a second, how big was the wound? regan claims guards refused to let her see a doctor for two weeks. when she was admitted to the prison hospital, she says medical staff couldn't believe what they saw. >> they were shocked that i was in the yard like that. telling me i could is a died, i could have got crazy infections. you. >> they put me on luvac for four or five weeks. when it was small enough to where i didn't have to wear it, they decided to use sugar, kitchen sugar. >> reporter: what do you mean they used kitchen sugar? >> the packets like mcdonald's, the sugar. they'd open it, pour it inside

and put gauze over it, tape it up, for about three weeks. >> reporter: the little pack the mcdonald's. >> yes. >> reporter: did they tell you why they are pouring that into your c section. >> one of the doctors learnt it from - i don't know. basically it's a home remedy. >> reporter: sugar was used to treat wounds before the advent of anti-biotics, in the early 1900s, it's no longer accepted medical practice. regan is not the only prisoner claiming to be mistreated. the aclu filed a class action lawsuit alleging that prison health care put prisoners at risk of pain, amputation, disfigurement and death. it alleges that care fell to unconstitutional levels after the state of arizona

privatized health jir and signed a contract with corison. they have faced allegations of wrong doing, sued for malpractice 660 times, according to the "miami herald." >> i felt betrayed by the company. they were supposed to keep it everything working properly. >> reporter: until now, no one spoke public lick. teresa ales corize job and arizona officials are trying to tuscon. >> i have one there, two here. it was bad. i was covered. it was itchy. short claims, corizon supervisors told her she needed to frorp work. she -- report to work. she felt it was

upethical to treat patients while contagious. she lost her shobment short case -- job. short says the prisoner that affected her still as scabies and several more staff members contracted it and scaibies are the beginning. >> reporter: what were some of the first problems that you noticed when you went to work for corize job. >> staffing. >> reporter: lack there of. >> we have a number much dementia patients, pause of the short staff we'd stand for hours to feed them. it was not permitted. they'd skip a meal. >> reporter: did you get to every inmate that you needed to get to? >> unfortunately not. some of them would be incontinent. some dirty. ace. >> yes. >> did you see inmates die as a result inadequate health care? >> yes. we had a particular inmate. he had dementia.

he had to have dialysis. so he had a vascular cap. one night i kept close eyes on him because he was messing with the vascular cap. i reported it and reported it. at 5 o'clock in the morning when i wept back to the cell i could smell blood -- went back to the cell, i could smell blood. when i turned on the lying, it looked like someone had been murdered. there was blood over the room. i screamed for help. basically whether or not he had done is he had un plugged the vascular kath and bled out in a short amount of time. >> reporter: how could his life have been failure? >> supervision. he needed to be watched. >> reporter: you told others that he needed supervision? >> yes. >> reporter: what happened to those requests? >> i don't know. i don't know. >> to be perfectly clear,

there's no scabies outbreak at tuscon. >> reporter: richard pratt is the director of health services. after requests by "america tonight", he agreed to speak to us briefly, outside his office. >> before it was privatized and after privatisation, what is the difference in staffing levels, when it comes to medical care? >> staffing levels are the same. in fact, i would tell you that corizon's staffing levels have been coming up on a monthly basis, to the point that the hours they were working with their existing staff exceeded the contract requirements. >> so you are confident that corison is providing adequate good health care within the prison system. >> i am. >> that is not true, according to a prison watchdog group. >> the american friend committee found staffing levels and health

care spending plumb eted after the state privatized health services. even though legislators were promised the same services at a low cost. >> care. >> reporter: are they saving system. >> i don't know. >> are you paying more or they public? >> i am not sure what the numbers were in public. it's probably a little more. again, as time moves on, and medical costs move on, costs go up. it wouldn't surprise me if it's more. it was not a decision by the department of corrections. this was legsize lated, mandated. it was the war. mistake? >> i can't comment on that. it is what it is. we will deal with moving forward

as best we can. >> some people believe the government is the only one that should care for the people. >> "america tonight" went to the legislator that wrote the law privatizing prison health care, representative john cavanagh. when we spoke with him in october, we asked whether he thought corizon's private prison health care was putting people at risk? >> people die in prison. i receive handwritten notes from prisons and from families with allegations of crazy behaviour. you call the prison people up, they usually have a reasonable explanation for it. >> we talked about the care raying jp received -- regan received. the doctor took sugar packets and poured them into the wound. does that sound like adequate health care. >> it doesn't sound like a true allegations.

prisoners have 24/7 to think after alleges. i'm not saying some are not based in fact but you have to take them with a grain much salt or in this case a grape of sugar. >> we shared your story with someone that overseas contracts. and he said you were probably making this up. >> well i'm not. that's crazy. i don't think i could come up with that. that's crazy, sugar. >> reporter: back home, regan is trying to make up for loft time with her baby. her mother says regan may have made mistakes, but it doesn't justify the treatment she received in prison. >> she got her just punishment, but they are still human beings, take care of them.

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lawrence and his brother were about to graduate when two door. >> i heard a mapping on the door -- mapping on the door -- banging on the door. >> the garrison twins had plans to attend law school. >> they tested them for drugsment they put them -- drugs. they put them in a conspiracy. they brought an a table of bullets. >> accusations that the garrisons deny. did you par fake in a multi -- partake in a multistate drug facility. >> no. >> reporter: no drugs were found in their possession, and no guilty. >> reporter: did you think you would be convicted? >> initially because i was not

caught in possession of anything, no phone conversation or photographs or anything of that nature. i thought they can't lock me up for this. >> the ipp seperable -- inseparable twins were torn apart. it was a nonviolent offense, strict laws sent lawrence to custody for 15 years, and lamont for 10. >> at that point my brother and i knew we were being railroaded. we expected it. my mother prepared us. we were young black me. >> when the verdict was read, their mother, karen garrison hearing. >> when they said guilty, i passed out. >> she turned from mother to activist, refusing to give up on her boys. what did you decide to dox. >> i never made a conscious

decision. i went to work. >> she talked to anyone that would lisp. >> racism in the criminal justice system needs to stop. anyone that is not making a constructive comment. >> the laws that september their son to prison grew out of the crack epidemic grew out of washington d c. congress passed the anti-drug abuse act. the mandatory minimum sentence for possessing five grams of crack campaign, the same sentence someone trafficking 500 gram of powdered cocaine received. three months later george w. bush unveiled his drug policy. >> if we face that evil. this will be nothing but a handful of useless chemicals.

>> according to the u.s. sentencing mission, 82% convicted were black. 32% were sentenced to 10 years or more. >> one thing i know in this universe, numbers are con stand. the draconian laws were created to locus up. >> crack cocaine was a big deal in washington d c. it was a new drug. it was cheap. >> reporter: julie stuart is president of families against mandatory mip mums. reform. >> the drug war was at full policemen in the mid '80s. -- fledge in the mid '80s. cop impress said they would -- congress said they would stop sentences. it didn't work like that. . >> reporter: the u.s. has also

than 5% of the world's population, a quarter of the world's prisoners are incarcerated here. in 2010 the teed began to -- tide began to turp. president obama signed the fair sentencing act into law. in january attorney general eric holder called for reduced offenders. >> i am sure people convicted of low-level, non-violent federal drug crimes face sentencing appropriate to individual conduct, rather than stripping ept mip mums. >> in april the commission vote unanimously on guide lines. if approved. the guidelines will go into effect on nef first. >> it's too little, too late. my brother and i will never feel the effects of this, we were given a lengthy sentence for first-time offenders.

there's other men and women languishing in prison. they are changing something now. are. >> sara hoy tells us that the garrison defence have their real estate licences and both innocence. >> looking ahead on the programme. light, camera, prison. . >> other people were closer by. were they arrested. >> no, they weren't arrested. i was the guy with the camera. >> armed with cameras, suspects charged with recording the activities of the police, no other crime. is there such a thing as a right to record. "america tonight"'s adam may explores the growing tension between cops and cam resist on monday, on "america tonight". after the break in this hour, when dads lose their kids a fight for father hood, and the utah law that let her mother give the child away.

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>> it's state-sanctions kidnapping. it's devastating. it's stealing of children. sink sink rob and his fiance are razing three children. that's an empty seat at the dipper table. he's been -- dinner table that he's been fighting to fill for six years. rob claims his former girlfriend gave their daughter up for adoption secretly, without his nom or scoent -- knowledge or consent. the couple lived together in colorado when she was pregnant. baby? >> i think for the first couple of weeks she did. after that there was a change in how she was acting and started discussing strange things, and that was adoption. >> reporter: you were not interested in adoption? >> not at all. i told her from that minute i child's life. >> reporter: rob and his gifrld

were not married, he worried what she'd do. soon after he said his girlfriend, a mormon, hatched a sinister plan. >> i had a strange email from her stating that she was going to visit a sick relative and we'd discuss adoption when she returned. when he returned from utah the baby was born. >> that's when i took action. i was searching hospital to see if there was a child that looked like me or a child there that was mine. >> reporter: how frantic did baby? >> it's like your heart is ripped out and shredded and you are grabbing to put the pieces back together and find a piece and it's not there, and you can't find it. >> reporter: rob is far from alone. in utah until, biological fathers have few rights. utah's adoption policy is that a killed is better off with a

married couple, even if strangers, rather than a single biological parents. mothers can give children up for adoption if fathers don't meet complicated material in 30 days. >> reporter: why not give you the kid? >> i think it was something she was conscious to do to get the child to a 2-party home. >> reporter: was she pressured church? >> i think so. i think the church had something to do with helping her decide if this was right for the child. >> i remember her coming home from church and discussing adoption. trying to convince me to say it was in our best interests and the child's best interests to get the child to a family home. >> utah seems to be a baby mill or mecca. >> reporter: ws is head of the -- wes is head of the

adoption council, and a lawyer representing three dozen birth fathers, trying to get their children back. what do you think is wrong with the adoption laws in utah? >> it's legal. >> reporter: he's suing the state and federal court demanding $100 million in dams, challenging the -- damages, chption. >> you can lie, misrepresent, deceive and it's not a basis to overturn an illegal adoption. a birth mother can lie to a birth father and say i'm not placing the child for adoption or tell the birth father that the baby kid. >> reporter: are adoption laws a result church. >> i think utah has a long history of being pro family and adoption. there's an froouns -- influence from the lds church, and i'm

lds. a lot of people misinterpret children being raised in 2-parent homes, they misinterpret and apply it in a way of the ends justifies the means approach. let's do what we have to to get the children adopted. >> hutchins says the proof of lds influence is in this letter, written by a church leader to the paternal grandmother about a child given up in a questionable adoption. it states: we couldn't get kaya's birth mother or adoptive parents to talk to us. we spoke to an organization arguing on their behalf. >> i think the mothers are doing great things. >> bill duggan is with the

sutherland institute, a powerful group in utah. >> reporter: what is your skin in the game? >> we are interested in making sure our laws reflect the realityius of family -- realities of family life, and they protect the most vulnerable people, the children. >> the suth are land institute filed briefs defending utah's adoption laws. should some of the biological fathers get their kids back. there have been problems. >> of course. assuming we can prove that a fraud happened or been perpetrated, what is the best way to solve the problem? is it to remove a child from a home they've been raised in or punish fraud. >> reporter: wouldn't you say the biological father is punished anyway. >> punishment is the wrong term. >> reporter: if you don't have

your kid, what is it? >> here is the question. why don't they have the child. >> reporter: because perhaps the biological mother came and committed fraud in utah. >> if they mar implied the moth -- married the moth are, . >> reporter: for you this is the fact, they are upwed. >> this is the reality. if the mother and father are married, you know, there's rites that automatically kick in. if we get to the point where that's unreasonable, i'm not sure that there's a debate to have any more. >> some of the biological fathers have taken their legal battles to the highest form possible, the utah court. there was a grouped breaking -- groundbreaking decision. the judge said he was wrongfully

denied a stay in the adoption. >> i remember her walking in. i saw myself, a little child. i had tippingles over my -- tippingles over my body, i'll excited to meet her. within 30 seconds i say high, i'm rod. >> she sits on my lap. she looks me, puts the dolls down and said "daddy, where have you been." >> rob is the first man to have success against the fraud immunity statute. it says if it's approach someone lied. the adoption cannot be overturned. since their brief meeting in 2009. rod and kia spend more court-ordered time, a few days around chris, a week at spring break and a longer plan.

rob says it's not enough, and is fighting for full custody. >> i don't feel i should be sharing custody with the people that dragged this out, that fraud uentally did this to this child. she'll know this and realise what has happened to her. i think she's grasping at what happened to her. it's hard for her. >> some people may say, including a therapist that you worked with, that this change in her life could be detrimental and disruptive. >> i think, yes, it will be hard on her in the beginning. i'm not asking for her to come today or tomorrow. i'm saying let's do this with the right type of therapy to get her transitioned over to my home in a manner that will be best for her. >> reporter: without kia rob says his family is not complete. become...

>> reading to his youngst son, he can't stop the time he's micing with kia as each day becomes night. >> my fight since day one is to have her home. i mean, this has gone for s years, for too long. "america tonight" correspondent adam may approach the church of jesus christ of later day saint, the mormons and got their response: ahead here in our final thoughts of the hour - a swift in the story of the spinners. from their first hit to the walk

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superstar, stevie wonned are, and -- wonder and the spinners got their start. the spinners are groving, on tour with a new generation working hard to fill big shoes. there is an original in the mix, and tonight he gives us the spinners. >> you mind if i say something. >> go for it. >> how you all doing. >> my name is henry. i am a member of the spinners vocal group, i'm 75 years old and still kicking. not kicking hard, but i'm singing. du-whoh is durks-whop -- du-whop [ singing ] . >> that was the du-whop.

that year, 1954, we were in our teens, in high school. i'm talking about the beginning of the group's existence. we was only - on the basketball court outside, and every day in the summer time all the guys would gather, standing around singing. and everyone would say something like "why don't you start a group, you sound good?" this is why, phillippa on the right. purpose jackson next to him. bobby smith. billy henderson and myself on the end. at that time i was - our name wag domi nrkts -- was domengos, and bobby came up with the spinners, getting it from a cadillac hub cap. we knew we were not going to college. we made a pact with each other, that we'd take this and make a career out of it. if we make it, we make it.

if we don't, we [ singing ] >> they came up with a song "that's what girls are made for", i swear to god. it came up and went to top 40, motown for us was a very, very good college. they taught you how to use a microphone. they taught you to sit on a stool. they taught you everything. the spinners' album. it's the first album on atlantic records. they released the first record. a disc jockey in buffalo new york - he turned the record over and played i would be around. that record - i'm telling you. that sold so fast. [ singing ]

>> and we kept on doing that. this is the star on the hollywood walk of fame. with respect the second black group to get a star on the hollywood walk of fame. >> the first group was the mels broth are. we tested at the time, sold a million copies. and it was a great, great, great hit for us. [ singing ] >> this is out of the archives. >> this was the 20th anniversary. we had a right-up in jet magazine. this is before uniforms. >> it was too late. >> the first concert i saw was a

spinner's consempt i thought i'm going to do what they are doing. >> i'm charles. i grew up listening to the spinners music. i remember when it came out. i thought who is that. ♪ it's the same... >> i'm the newest member. i'm one of the tenors in the group. >> could we not interrupt please, this is important. hi. >> i'm jessie peck, i do the base parts and fill the shoes of fergus jackson, it's a dream come true. >> i'm marvin taylor and do most of bobby's parts - i do all of possibly's parts, what am i talking about. i realise that this is what i have to do. i have to step up and be bobby

so to speak, and let him know that's it's all right down here. >> how are you all [ singing ] >> oh, my guys they'll book me, and i have put four more guys toot and the audience seems to - they have accepted the four guys that i have with me now. they are doing excellent job of replacing the guy that is going away. we don't want nobody up there thinking "i'm with the spinners now." no, you ain't nothing, you know. you are nothing until you prove yourself. i don't care if it's a tenor, base or barra time. you have to get the sound that

you -- barra tone. you have to get the sound that you yeahated. if you -- created. if you don't, you get another town. >> when i brought these two to rehearsals five years ago, when henry started they were pretty good-looking shoes. >> when you go on stage, you know, you don't think you look good. you don't look good - we had the clothes made so they'd be one of a kind. when you go on stage like that, and you know things are looking good. you can forget that part of it. >> i feel lying a spinner -- like a spinner. >> bobby was the last member that went away. we close at night, me and him had dinner. he said "look, i don't know what is going to happen, but whatever you do, man, keep this going." that was the last time i talk to hum. when we are on stage, when you

say the spinners, it's the same. you get the same ovation, and the same excitement. i see it in the audience faces. >> we go back almost 40 years. you know, the new ones come along. they are great. they make a great sound. doesn't matter. doesn't matter. they can put four new people in there. it's still the spinners. >> looking back on our career, i think things - i wouldn't change a thing.

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