and by reva and david logan, committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund. >> narrator: on the day of the earthquake, the national penitentiary held 4,500 inmates: powerful gang leaders and hundreds of their foot soldiers, men accused of robbery, kidnapping and murder. at 4:50, they were finishing their evening meal. >> narrator: terrified prisoners, packed 300 to a cell, tore down the gates with their bare hands. facing them were the prison guards. >> narrator: as daylight faded, the guards began to panic. >> narrator: even prisoners crushed by falling masonry managed to crawl free. >> narrator: the escaped prisoners melted into the slums of the devastated capital. among them, gangsters who'd once controlled much of port au prince. now the earthquake gave them the chance to do so again. the world promised to help the haitians rebuild a new and better country. with the escaped gangsters still on the loose

and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund. >> i didn't even want to come home. you just felt naked and totally vulnerable, unless you were armed. like, i mean, we all carried guns. there would be a huge group of us, and everyone in the group would have a gun. >> narrator: in november 2007, four soldiers back from iraq went out drinking. >> i was a real bad alcoholic. i spent all my savings my first month back just drinking. >> narrator: they had all served together in baghdad during the surge. >> i had, like, a.... i had, like, a total mental breakdown. i lost control. >> narrator: by the next morning, one of them was dead. kevin shields had been shot three times at point blank range and left by the side of the road. two of his fellow soldiers would be convicted of conspiring to murder him. the oth

and by reva and david logan-- committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation-- committed to raising public awareness. >> i've cut myself. i've ingested things like bed hooks... >> tonight on frontline... >> i swallowed a cassette walkman. >> they are schizophrenic... >> ...my head back, and pushed it down my throat. >> ...out of prison... >> they got a needle, a feather and a rope. >> ...with nowhere to go... >> i became homeless for two years. that was rough. >> ...and no help to cope. >> psychiatric treatment for those that are coming out of incarceration is very poor. >> what would happen if you stopped taking those medications? >> i start hallucinating. >> he can decide to not take the medication anymore. in an instant, all the good can be erased by a relapse. >> many of these mentally ill offenders wind up back in prison again and again. >> going back and forth to jail, back and forth to jail, back and forth to jail. >> i see the whole community mental health system as a huge social failure. a person

and by reva & david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. committed to raising public awareness. and by the frontline journalism fund. with grants from the from the hagler family and scott nathan and laura debonis. >> it's small town america. it's football games on friday nights. >> everybody gets along, everybody knows everybody. this is a nice country community. >> corsicana is a wonderful place to live, but every town has their bad people in it, and bad things happen in every town. so we're no different from anybody else. >> it was the 23rd of december. "the price is right" was on, that was what i was watching. two or three of the girls went out on the back patio and come running in the house, and said, "mamma, i think sheila's house is on fire." i run to the front and out the door, and that's when i seen todd at his front door, and he started screaming, "my babies. oh, my babies, my babies are burning." >>

and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. committed to raising public awareness. and by the frontline journalism fund, with a grant from scott nathan and laura debonis. >> narrator: in the intensive care unit at mount sinai hospital in new york city, a family gathers. gendolina lara-morillo has been kept alive on a ventilator for the last five days. >> she's not doing well. she's dying. very difficult. we know. >> narrator: with every major organ failing from end-stage liver disease, her family is now faced with taking her off life support. >> we have a decision to make. one of the decisions is whether we should take the tube from the mouth and take it out. does he have thoughts about that? >> say yes. >> okay. so, let me prepare you for what may happen. the icu is at the apex of life and death. we give a little bit of a dose of the sedative to make sure she feels no pain. we have a tremendous a

and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund. major funding for frontline's expanded broadcast season is provided by the bill and melinda gates foundation. >> narrator: it was just after midnight, september 9, 2001. >> a trooper was doing what a trooper would do. saw a speeder. pulled over the speeder. ( siren wailing ) >> narrator: the maryland state trooper ran the driver's name through the local police database... >> and he gave him a ticket. the driver, from all accounts, was polite. had proper registration, license. there was nothing that the trouper could have done, other than to write the ticket, tell him "have a nice day"... or "have a nice night." that was it. >> narrator: the driver headed to newark. he was meeting friends at the airport. his name was ziad jarrah. >> united flight 93 crashed

and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. committed toaisi public awareness. >> narrator: the upper east side is one of the most affluent and powerful neighborhoods in america. even to new yorkers, it seems special-- a world apart of privilege and security. one day, walking across park and madison avenues, i reflected on how far away the country's economic troubles seemed to be from these streets. then i arrived at my hair salon, a place i've been going to for many years. ( telephone ringing ) >> deborah hair designs. can i help you? okay, when do you want an appointment for? >> narrator: i shared my thoughts with deborah. she gave me a wry smile. "you might see things differently," she said, "if you stay here with me and listen." >> how's the boyfriend? >> we actually... we broke up. >> oh. >> yeah, because... >> is that because he couldn't find work and had to go home? >> he couldn't find work

reva come after doing oprah winfrey -- she was a biographer's dream. she really gave me such a gift. now it did take -- a data take four years to do this book, and i had to interview for 850 people to get this story. it was a fabulous story. i mean, she was born poor in a racist state. she's become one of the most powerful, beloved icons really of our century. so it was a gift to be able to write her life story. i don't know who could talk it right now. >> kitty kelley, "obra," a biography, her latest book. >>> a new book out by bloomsbury publishing. blur how to know what is true in the age of information overload. in your book one of the chapters is we have been here before. what does that mean? >> that means we've gone through this dislocation created by an expansion of information time and again throughout history. in fact, newspapers were born at such time when the printing press came into being and distributed information to people who never had the information about the people in the institutions to control the lives, and it took decades for the