i date this back to the attica rebellion in 1971 so that is 40 years ago, right? that at that time when the attica rebellion took place and there were strikes at folsom, the 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 hundred thousand people behind bars. today there are more than 2 million, 2.3 million people behind bars and this is, of course, the census on any given day. >> how does this happen, though? because so many people say the reason there are so many people in prison and if people commit more crimes we need more jails. >> this is a process called criminalization. as a matter of fact, if we look at the way in which 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 and the mandatory minimum sentences to end up in prison for an upon ent

. >> bob: you want everybody at attica. you just jumped in. it'd like to chairfy this.n you said the thing about what is his name, we talked about it yesterday. i made it clear yesterday i thought what he said was disgusting. bill maher. he ought to go to insane asylum. >> you were more outrageed. >> greg: no, he was more outrageed about maher than i was if i remember. >> this is debbie wasserman schultz and all the democrat women in congress expressing outrage. schultz eats nails for breakfast. >> andrea: take him to the woodshed. really? >> c'mon, what we are seeing here is republicans standing up and putting up a fight for once and not being tarred and not being lied about and not smeared without a real fight. >> bob: maybe they could do it -- can we talk about the debt. >> greg: the debt. >> andrea: bob you said that the cake is already baked, they have a deal. so why are they torturing us with the political theater? why are they torturing greg gutfeld? >> bob: did you fall out on the wrong side of bell this morning? come down. >> andrea: why? >> bob: you're yelling