probably walk them over to the jail. there's plenty of people in this city who have stole trillions of dollars out of the pockets of this country and the world and none of them are going to jail. >>> come on now. >>> supervisor mar, i want to thank you. i know you stood with me on the picket lines to defend the sf8. and, you know, the s.f.8, they were seniors like myself, all black. one of them worked in this building for 25 years and they were going to jail. i spent a year in there on $2 million bail because they were black and they stood up for their rights. so, i know that's what they want to do here because believe me, there's going to be upsurge in this society when the economic collapse occurs. people are right now chomping at the bit. i've been chomping at that bit for 40 years because something has to be done in this society to end this disparity in wealth. and that's going to happen. that's what they want a new jail for and also to keep the sheriffs occupied and hired. they're building a bureaucracy little big he

3 and 4, the two hall of justice jails. however, one key question that will need to be answered in the coming months is whether and to what extent county jail 6 can be used. this is something others will speak about later in the presentation, but i would like to cite one statistic which is based on our forecast there will be fewer than 100 minimum security inmates in jail in 2019, and county jail 6 is a minimum security facility with 3 72 beds. so, that suggests that more -- merely 3 quarters of county jail 6 will be unusable in the year 2019. so, because that's an open question, though, we present our findings based on two scenarios. in scenario one county jail 6 is open and in use at capacity. in that case the county would need a replacement jail with between 63 and 229 beds. if, however, in scenario 2 county jail is -- continues to be closed, the county would need a replacement jail in the range of 435 to 600 beds. but i think it's really important to note here that any forecast assumes that present trends continue into t

the city is about to go into environmental review on a 640-bed jail. that should begin early in 2014 with the completion date at the end of 2015. the city at any point can decide to build a smaller jail or no jail at all without having to redo that environmental review, and then as supervisor campos said, the board will have options in 2015 to revisit this. >> thank you, ms. campbell. i especially want to highlight all the time and energy that you personally put into this to get this report out as quickly as possible. so, thank you very much for your excellent work. supervisor yee. >> yes, i have a few questions. thank you for the presentation and it's a very thorough report. the first question is really, when you look at the graph in page 2 of your report, if you had predicted or use the forecast for 2011, and right away you use the more current data. so, you were -- not you personally. >> right. >> -- heard that the forecast for 2011 would have been way off. is that sort of an error that may happen either way as we move into the next year, for instanc

but in the history -- in the history, the first time ever of the two jails in the top of the hall of justice, my administration shut down county jail 3. that says a lot, where we consolidated county jail 3 with now county jail number 4, and we're now almost stretched completely at county jail number 4 because we needed to consolidate based on those conditions that existed, and so that we'd be more efficient and effective with our administration in overtime. and that is really the outcome of us coming together. but what concerns me a little bit about the debate of whether to build a jail or not, not just where we might house the sheriff, but drawing on my experience of 7 years on the budget committee of the board of supervisors is the question of whether to have a jail or not frankly is, in the sequence of criminal justice, almost on the back end of the spectrum of the role of having a jail and incarceration in san francisco. and i'm a little concerned or troubled by what i think are simmering contradictions. it's this government that has just now approved a $165 million bond for a for

the l.a. county jail. in the hundreds of millions, overcrowding continues to be a growing concern. >> as you can see, i've got concrete bars. you know, i don't have any place to expand. i can't make another cell. that's the achilles heel of jail systems everywhere, is how many inmates you have. that's your clients. >> the los angeles county jail has a higher inmate to guard ratio than any other county jail in the country. sheriff's deputies have to deal with the daily threat of getting stabbed, having feces thrown at them, and even contracting aids. for some deputies the stress is too much to handle. >> we've had guys come in just a day, day or two, and they look around and they're like i'm out of here. they'll give us the keys, and they won't even say they're out of here. next day we'll come in and they'll be gone. i'll go down and check it out. they'll be like, yeah, he resigned or -- because this is where you actually figure out if you really want to do this or not. >> five minutes. get ready. >> with th

street, out of the emergency rooms, off the welfare roll. out of jails, out of courts, and onto the tax rolls. what's not to like? all the programs that provide alternatives to incarceration, particularly residential programs like safe house, are struggling for funding. a lot of that money would give us a big boost. we would like to open a second house. all the funds would be used for the people we serve and none of it would go to the financierses who had create aid whole new class of homeless people with their evictions ~. so, please, no [speaker not understood] to alternatives. (applause) >> thank you, reverend. next speaker, next speaker. >>> good afternoon. my name is angel reid and i'm a clinical social worker in san francisco. i work with women who are formerly incarcerated and have histories of substance abuse. so, that means i work with women whose mother started beating them to a bloody pull be when they were nine months old, whose father started raping them when they were three years old, and whose guardians started giving them meth and other d

loved ones out of jail, keeping their dignity or helping them deal with the enormous trauma and abuse of jail. so, for these reasons, we say no to this jail plan. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. (applause) >>> good afternoon, supervisors. i will try to be mercifully brief. my name is david [speaker not understood], i'm the chief of staff for san mateo county dave pine. i'm here to echo the sentiments of the officer you heard from san bruno. we realize for many outside of san francisco, it seems like for those living here the vacuum of space is all on the outside. i assure you that is not the case. there is a community in san brewin owe better neighborhood, college and churches. for better or for worse, they will be part of this dialogue and may end up being or playing a role in the solution to the internal challenges that you're going to wrestle with. so, we ask only humbly that and respectfully that you keep that community in mind and also keep us in the loop. we came a little late to this and [speaker not understood] the documents you have before you

join the nation. ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ >>> at the suffolk county jail in boston, the new classadets are about to get their first experience of direct inmate interaction as part of their training to become jail deputies. among them are kareem mallard abrianna spagnolli. >> we're going to go down to the 2-2 unit for a shakedown. a total of 34 cells. make sure you have your protective gloves on and verbalize what you want from these people. inmates will only allow you to do what they're allowed to do. if there's any issues, contact one of us. if there's any questions, contact one of us. is that clear? questions? >> sir, yes, sir. >> all right. >> a shakedown is a little bit different from a room search whereas you actually handcuff the inmate, bring them out of the room, search the room with a three-person team. >> forward, march. >> and then at the end of it, they get stripped search and placed back inside their room so you can be virtually assured the room is clean. >> sir, stand up, please. >> hands behind your back, palms up. >> separate your feet, sir. >> behind your back. >>

majority of the jail inmates stand accused of criminal acts and are either on or awaiting trial. >> handcuffs are going to come off next, but leave your hands behind your back. >> but the threat of violence is just as real in jail as it is in prison. >> around here at theo lacy, we'll get a couple of these maybe in a -- in a month. >> day-to-day management of the orange county jail in southern california is up to sheriff's deputies. some work permanently at the jail while most others rotate through, then return to street patrol. >> all right. let's line up. let's do a gear check. let's line up on the wall right here. >> a select group of deputies make up the emergency response team, a s.w.a.t.-like unit called to action when inmates refuse orders or cause an imminent threat. >> hang left. >> watch out, watch out, watch out. >> wielding a broken mop stick and other cleaning supplies, joseph etima, who has pled not guilty to a murder charge and is awaiting trial, has refused to return to his cell. >> he's upset because the hispanic

that's what they want a new jail for and also to keep the sheriffs occupied and hired. they're building a bureaucracy little big he. we don't need a new jail in this town. we need jobs, we need housing, health care. that's where we can put this money. it's unconscionable to think about building a jail at this time. thank you. (applause) >> [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] block. raphael sperry. adrian sky roberts. [speaker not understood] leon, laurel butler. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is mindy kener. i work with anders and anders foundation. [speaker not understood]. whatever happens with the jails, we would like reentry clients to build and democrat aloe the jails. [speaker not understood]. we work with people who are incarcerated and do not have access to employment when they get out. we need to train them. we need to have funding available to help them so they don't go back in. this is speaking for the clients that i speak to every day. we also need to be mindful of the fact we need to accommodate families of those who are incarcerated

i mean, it's anywhere in the jail. and that happens every day on every shift in the facility, multiple times most days. >> narrator: at louisville metro, male inmates outnumber females by about nine to one. most live in dormitories designed to hold either 16 or 24 men, but they, too, are almost always beyond capacity. >> this jail is horrible. this is by far the worst jail i've ever been to in my entire life. it's like trying to fit five families in a house. you know, it just don't work. and you have, you know, animosity and people getting up in each other's faces and trying to kill each other. whenever you have that many personalities clashing, it's gonna happen. >> narrator: and less than 24 hours earlier, ben thompson, serving time for burglary, was at the center of one such clash. >> yesterday, i guess it was my eighth day here. >> chow! make sure you got your... >> they holler "chow." i get up and get my tray, and i hear somebody say something to me when we're in line, but i didn't really pay attention. i was half

if we do determine we have to build a new jail, obviously it should be the smaller jail, not the larger one. thank you. >> thank you, mr. adaji. if we could ask, sheriff, if you want to -- >> i very much appreciate the comments of the public defender. but i want to bring up my chief deputy of custody. i think there was just some misstates or misspeaking on the calculations. so... >> supervisors, good afternoon. matt freeman, chief deputy san francisco sheriff's department. it's good to see you again. as you know, the facility commanders that manage the various county jails report to me. so, i'm intimately aware of the entire san francisco county jail system. and i think it's just important to point out the public defender had referenced the fact that with the count as it is today, the sheriff's department could completely close county jails 3 and 4 and still be just fine. and i think that that doesn't take into account what has been referred in many of the documentation has been written, we call the classification factor and the need to keep separate and segregate dispaired groups of th

now after two years inside the santa rita jail, his trial has gotten under way. t clothes he's allowed to wear in court are a painful reminder of all he's lost. >> these are my work clothes. this is my life. this was what i looked like out on street. this was who i was. the judge in his case has not allowed cameras in the courtroom and holbrook has been advised not to discuss the proceedings, but he is bracing himself. >> i have been preparing mentally for the worst. which is obviously going to prison. but i don't think anybody can truly prepare themselves 100% for what that's going to be like. >> ready? >> every day after court, holbrook returns to his maximum security housing unit. >> to be in a maximum classification house, you have to have some pretty serious charges or an extensive disciplinary history within the jail system. with holbrook being in here, it's his first time but it's a serious charge. so that's why he's placed in here. >> holbrook has been incarcerated for the two years leading up to his trial because he could not make the $3 million bail set

year before makeup about 15% of the u.s. jail population or 7 to 11 times the estimated homeless people in the population. a few years ago when we looked at san francisco, 27% of our inmates are homeless. i'm hoping we can look at this as an opportunity. just think of how we could invest that money, which is at least 27 million a year just in the bond service, in doing a lot more. we could estimate -- we can make major contributions in substance abuse treatment and supportive housing -- >> thank you. >>> there are a lot of possibilities. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> may name is dorsey [speaker not understood] and i'm executive director of legal services for prisoners with children. and i think that we're going through a paradigm shift where we really reduce the numbers and we need to guard on that. i did write a public statement. i find my testimony here to be extremely uncomfortable because i generally respect the man occupying the office of sheriff. i have heard him speak on many occasionses and

the jail. >> it's still jail. you are locked in one room 100% of the time. >> sean denbraven arrived in the hamptons, after his arrest, a night he remembers little of. >> i was blacked out drunk. i don't remember having the photo taken. every single time i've ever gotten in trouble has directly been related to alcohol. i don't control how much alcohol i drink, and then i black out and then i go crazy. >> denbraven says on the day of his arrest he had about 15 shots of whiskey before heading to his grandmother's house where he was living. >> now i'm not controlling my actions anymore and now i'm running on pure alcohol basically. i just walked into my grandma's house, just being stupid. and she got scared and, like, went to call my dad and i took the phone away and smashed it on the ground and then she ran in her room, locked me out and called my dad. he came over. he was holding on to me or something, i think, i think. i hit him once and knocked him to the ground and hopped on and started raining it down on him lik

many of them arrive here at the main jail, also known as the pretrial detention center. >> the main jail is considered the hub because it's right next to the court building. and all of the inmates that go to court are staged at the pretrial detention center where we have a bridge that connects with the courthouse. >> listen, up listen up. >> listen up for your name. >> built in 1959, the detention center is the oldest of the miami-dade facilities and also the busiest. in fact, for the officers' own safety the jail has asked that we only reveal their last names. >> the biggest challenge in intake is we don't know what we're facing until they come through that door. we don't know if the person is very combative, if they are high on drugs, if they are going to come through and fight a bunch of people. >> we had superman come in one day, a guy dressed in a superman suit. he was upset, visibly upset because they took his cape. fortunately we had enough officers here with experience to talk with him and diffuse the situation. >> after being checked for weapons and contraband, inmates wait in a

but his actions in and outside the jail puts his membership in jeopardy. that verlander has built his life on is crumbling. he just received a letter informing him he has been x 'd out of the group. >> i was on the run, you know, am i supposed to go hold down a 9 to 5:00 job and be on alert? >> what do you think, being x'd out? do you think somebody is going to hurt you? >> i don't know. >> meanwhile, verlander thinks his girlfriend will get him out of jail. >> that is how he made me feel, like i have to get him out. >> but now he has heard from a friend that skye is also gone. >> skye is in rehab, right now. she is in rehab, i don't know where she is at. i don't get no letters from her. i don't know where she is going to. i wish i knew where she was. >> as he stays in jail, verlander's only comfort is skye's bitter sweet promises. >> your love is like the wind, you can't see it but you know it is there and can feel it all around you. that is the only letter i've gotten since i have been locked up. >> it must feel like you're all alone. >> i do feel alone.

>> a repeat offender smuggles contraband into the jail. >> what are you trying to get past us? >> my case is considered high profile because the guy killed was a local celebrity. >> after murdering a louisville rap star an inmate becomes a marked man. >>> a prescription pill epidemic takes his toll in the jail. >> stuff like that. >> hillbilly crack. >> and drug use on the inside can keep another inmate from leaving jail. >> please don't keep me from going home on friday. >> if you don't go home on friday, i didn't keep you from going home. you did. >> and officials are concerned over one inmate's growing influence. >> i got a reputation of leading these young guys to do all types of crazy stuff. that's a reputation you've got to live down. >> a source of pride for louisville, kentucky has been the revitalization of downtown. marked by new high rises, residential and retail centers. but it also has been a busy time for another downtown landmark. the louisville metro department of corrections jail, books about 45,000 men and women each year and many of them have been through the

the scene. both men have been in jail for about a month. but their conflict began on the streets. >> on the street i ain't worried about him on the street. but in jail i already know i've got to fight him because i'm going to run into him, and it ain't going to be like, oh, what's up or anything like that. it's going to be on site every time. >> robinson is in jail on a probation violation for an assault after he pistol-whipped someone. his original sentence was three years for domestic battery. he and law, who is charged with four counts of assault with a firearm to which he has pled not guilty, each had separate court appearances that morning and then encountered each other back at the jail. >> it was just me and him like he already bit me right here and everything. biting like he trying to get [ bleep ] aids or something. hopefully i never see him again. >> what's the likelihood of that? >> most likely i'm going to see him again. >> in addition to their latest fight, long says he has another reason to be upset with robinson. >> shut your

one of two facilities that comprise the jail system. they're housed on separate floors but that doesn't stop them from finding ways to communicate. >> it's 192, we get to talk to the guys downstairs. >> how do you talk to them? >> through the toilets. we clear them out and yell through the pipes. the vents, the pipes. you could do it this way which people laugh at all the time. >> what are you doing? >> i'm plunging the toilet with my ass. >> because you can't talk to them unless it's clear so you got to get all the water out. >> yo! >> yeah, say hi. >> hello! this is the only way they'll do an interview. >> this is the only way they'll do an interview. >> life for most inmates at the suffolk county jail is anything but fun and games. inside the jail's nashua street facility is a housing unit for those inmates whose charges have given them a reputation among other inmates. a reputation that could result in grave consequences. >> special housing unit, what we call the shu, is typically what most people refer to as pc, protective custody u

of a young man's first day in jail. >> i'm in the orange county jail. i'm like in a room with no windows, no nothing. nobody -- i don't know what's going on. i don't know. >> when we met 20-year-old richard ruiz, he had already completed the booking process and his first court arraignment and was now engaged in another jailhouse ritual, the first call home. >> so i'm just sitting in a room. i don't know if it's light or daylight. i lose track of time. i get woken up by all of the slamming doors and stuff. like i don't know what's going on in here. i skip all meals because i don't want to eat. >> ruiz had been arrested 48 hours earlier for the first time in his life, charged with intent to sell narcotics. he hoped his father would be able and willing to bail him out. >> it's $2500. 10% of $25,000 bail. thank you, dad. all right. yep. i love you. bye. he doesn't deserve a phone call from here. but it's all my fault that i'm here. it's no one's fault but myself. >> there's a term that people use called a fish and basically if you're a new booking and you've

four men were arrested, and are now in the concept county jail. three pled guilty. t rederick melton has pled not guilty. when we asked him about details of the female victim's description of one of her attackers he shut us down. >> somebody dipping into my case? i think we're done here. put me in my room. somebody dipping in my case. i'm done. >> two weeks later, melton agreed to speak with us again. >> the last time we talked to you, you kind of got a little angry. what was that about? >> it was about, like, i felt that they went to other co-defendants to get questions to ask me, like as if i had did the rape, basically accusing me. you know? i got accused. so, yes. i got upset. >> self weeks earlier, melton was placed in disciplinary segregation for fighting in maximum security general population unit. he's now eligible to return to general population but has requested to remain in segregation. >> classification um cans in 30 days. they ask were you want to move. i say, no, because i'm going to trial. i'd rather have the concentration down here. and so i don't mov

. >> the jail's efforts to achieve a notable goal. say that. >> the santa rita jail consumes 113 acres of land in the foothills just outside oakland, california. opened in 1989 it is bed space for more than 4,100 inmates. while some have been convicted most are currently charged with crimes, and are awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. men and women are housed in separate areas. but all wear jail-issued scrubs, eat the same food and sleep on the same thin mattresses. yet, as danielle benfield proves, individuality is hardly lacking here. [ screams ] >> she doesn't have a decibel limit. >> i knew you was going to say -- >> she tends to be what i would call one of our problem children. >> girl, she told me yesterday, wake up. >> she likes a lot of attention. >> i know how to use my mouth, you know, i mean talking. i am just a people person. i am a social butterfly. this is how i do my time. i always have my makeup and my hair done, radiant. that's the reputation i have in here. some of them call me diva. >> i am a bit of a sh

their source of funding for the jail is separate from the crime lab and medical examiner and not part of a general obligation bond, so they're unrelated. they're not related aside from the fact they're in the same building and an objective of the capital plan is it's not a safe building and we need to get one out but whether one moves forward of the other -- they're completely separate. >> and just asking about the safety of the jail as well. i know that's a critical strategic goal is to retrofit and repair the jail but if you could talk about that -- i know we're not discussing that right now, but what -- how important is that for the public safety capital plan as well, the rebuild of the jail? >> oh it's at the top -- we have a lot of top priorities in the capital plan, no doubt and you saw some of the needs numbers here today and it's a separate discussion but just like the other facilities if there's an earthquake those facilities will be unusable. we suspect the building will be red tagged and we will have to find other places to place inmates, staff and so forth and the same wou

the rest of your life. >> and another inmate in jail. a young woman is arrested for a crime reminiscent of the grinch. >> i took kids' christmas presents, that's what i did. i made out like a bandit. >> and -- >> i was a proactive deputy. i was also a very sincere deputy. >> staff must deal with a former colleague gone bad. >> there's a learned etiquette of how things are done in jail. we call it jailing. >> grand rapids is located almost equal distances between chicago and detroit. it is a fraction of the size of either. many who live here say it has all the benefits of a big city with few of the problems. just outside downtown is a place where problems are an all too common part of life. the kent county jailhouses about 1,000 men and women. some of them have been convicted but most are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial with the resolution of their cases. >> any problem? >> no problem, sir. >> captain randy demery has been confronting problems for 25 years he worked at the jail. >> good friend of mine said the thing that ma

but in the eight dormitories housing the jail's daily average of 210 female inmates, much of the focus is on beauty. >> pencil. you draw and color with them. and they're also good for makeup. great eye shadow and great mascara. just add a little warm water to it and voila. i put yellow on for me because of the uniform. >> monique jeffries might have an eye for color, but it's her hands that landed her in jail. >> i'm in here because of ike and tina. that's what i named my hands, ike and tina. >> why? >> because ike was aggressive. and tina finally fought back. >> are you a good fighter? >> i'm going to pat myself on the back. yes. i'm 39, and i ain't never took a loss. and the only person i ever took a loss to is a male. but i refuse to let a woman beat me up. >> fighting has earned jeffries three prior assault convictions and numerous jail stays on related charges over the past 15 years. >> people are going to look at it and watch this and say she's too old to be fighting. you're not too old to give an ass whooping, and you're not too old to take one. >> i basically know my whole care

are not used to control the guards, but for the drug trafficking in the jail. the trafficking is profitable to them. and controlling a winning of the prison is controlling the soldiers inside and outside of the jail. >> by striking deals with the inmates, it leads to more of the criminality that is filling the jails in the first place. >> the dow is down right now. and wal-mart expects the sales of its namesake stores to be lower in the 1st quarter. bad weather. it's warning that the profits will be lower than anticipated if. >> consumer spending is up, but the paycheck is the. a better than ever rise last month, but consumer spending is flat. and for a year, income growth falling almost a percent. >>> yahoo is resetting passwords for customers hacked. some of the names and passwords were stolen, though the company is not saying how many accounts may have been affected. like the argument breach last year, they used a third party provider to get into yahoo's system stereo. >> a unique approach to job training. at san quentin, they learn to be business owners. >>

this is the kent county jail. ile some are convicted, most of the 1,000 men and women here are only charged with crimes and awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. >> do the crime you've got to pay the time. you know? >> it's not the ideal setting in which to make friends. some do. jeremy feels like an outcast. >> jeremy is the model inmate. he's very quiet. never gets into trouble. he's generally in his cell and if he does come out of his cell he comes and he sits quietly. >> i don't consider anybody in here friends. i'd rather be in here than out there with some of those people sometimes because there's a lot of negative energy out there. there's not very many people to talk to me in here because i'm gay. >> merithew says he encounters too many attitudes. like that of ruben flores. >> if you want to be homosexual, that's good. that's your problem. it's your business. i'm going to tell you that god don't like homosexuals, that that's something against nature. if you want to do it, that's on you. but it's

. >> she thinks she's queen bee in the universe of santa rita jail. >> a female burglar makes santa rita her home away from home. >> i can utilize every single person for something to make my stay more comfortable. >> an invasion from the sky leaves the jail with a messy aftermath. >> manure. it just makes a mess. >>> located on the east side of san francisco bay, oakland, california, is a diverse and dynamic city. but all too often, it has been near the top of national rankings for violent crime. those arrested and charged with serious offenses could very well be taken 30 miles outside the city to a location that combines natural beauty with the concrete walls and razor wire of the sprawling modern mega jail. the santa rita jail of alameda county sits on 113 acres and spans a half mile in width. it currently houses 3,000 male and female inmates. most of whom are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. >> come over here for a minute. >> for 19-year-old daniela guzman, that journey has only just begun. this is guzman's first time in jail. she arri

some inmates could serve short sentences in the jail. even receive home incarceration, but if they break the rules at home, it's back to jail, as mary logan has just discovered. >> you're just upset because they take me off of h.i.p. and i didn't do nothing wrong for somebody to take me off h.i.p. >> so why did they take you off? >> because they say i blew a 0.1. i have five kids and tried to do everything right in my life. >> what's your name? >> mary lohden. >> mary lohden, when you first got put on h.i.p., one of the rules and stipulations was no alcohol, right? >> right. >> zero tolerance. >> and i didn't read all over it. i just signed my initials to it. >> don't be upset. we'll work with you. it will work out. >> i appreciate it. >> all right? okay? >> thank you. >> tell us if you need us. >> thank you. >> lohden was released to the home incarceration program on a theft program. >> h.i.p. is a privilege. incarceration is incarceration is incarceration. and people need to follow the rules. absolutely no alcohol. no drugs. >> seems l

but in the past the jail had been plagued by the specter of inmate suicides. it reached a peak three years earlier when there were five suicides in a 12-month period. >> it was a rash of suicides here at the facility. and the state took a look and decided that we needed to go to a more stringent type of monitoring system of all inmates. inmates had to be observed at a specific time frame. for example, inmates that were deemed mental by the psychological department, had to have an officer visually check on them every 15 minutes. on them every 15 minutes. we started sending all of our officers to suicide prevention classes. we would send them back through the academy. and we made it mandatory for every bed to go through the suicide prevention classes. our suicide rate has gone way down. >> because hanging is one of the most common methods of suicide attempts all officers carry a special tool as standard equipment. >> this it the rescue tool we have in every unit in the jail. some body it trying to hang themselves or something. we get in there with it and just cu