it's very interesting that at that time when the attica rebellion took place, strikes at folsom.he soledad brothers case was a major case involving political prisoners and there was a great deal of public discussion about the prison crisis. and at that time there were only a couple of hundred thousand people behind bars. today there are more than 2 million, 2.3 million people behind bars. this is, of course, the census on any given day. >> how did this happen? people would say the reason so many more people in prison is because people are committing crimes. if they commit crimes, we put them in jail. >> it's a process called criminalization. as a matter of fact, if we look at the way the so-called drug war has driven the soaring prison population, we see that at one point if one were found to be in possession of an illegal drug, one might get a couple of months or maybe a year. but now it's possible under three strikes mandatory minimum sentences to end up in prison for an sbir lifeti-- entire lif for simple drug possession. the fact the prison population has risen so drastically

>> attica's finch was listed as one of the 100 most popular heroes in american sentiment.as a prosecutor, that used to always take me off. he loses the case and that gets killed. then when his daughter is involved in the case, he'd obstructs justice by pretending to read the is not the killer. everybody loves that. even though he loses, the trucks and justice. when i was on "practice" we had a character that we spun off on another show who would destroy evidence. people loved him. it seems to me there has to be a free imagining from the public defender's office -- reimagining from the public defender's office about one we do. we all know where crime comes from. that group of people is also where crime victims come from. it is a lot easier to get people behind routing for the victim of crime, then the potential perpetrator -- than the potential perpetrator. where i think we are missing an opportunity is -- this will be controversial. nobody told us you wearing a dark suit, white shirt, tie. you look like a young republican, even if you are not. and i do not know where they