himself but as part of his sentence he can't speak to the media without permission from the bureau of prisons so instead were lucky enough to have his attorney patrick say hey their project on the bureau of prisons is not letting the christopher work for the unitarian church what were their words when they denied him this opportunity. because the unitarian church is known for its social justice programs and because tomb was serving a prison sentence for having acted on his sense of social justice it thought it would be inconsistent is cruel aspirations so instead it he had to find another job is that right it was he able to find one he did he found a wonderful try and some others rare books or. others as distinguished you try to do. what you. different people who. vote ts approaching the one the worst so there's a certain harmony but he does his social justice so i think the friends half good people in the group prisons will be satisfied so i mean it sounds like a fun job but it just seems interesting that working for a church which you know tries to help society is a place where somebody can

said would be the minimum, allow me to say, standards that we could operate a verythe federal bureau of prisonswhich runs the chicago prison. says it is hawaii is honoring native son daniel inouye. the 88-year-old former senator died of respiratory complications last monday. he represented hawaii in congress since becoming a state in 1959. becoming the first japanese-american elected to both houses of congress. he was the second-longest serving senator in us history. inouye received the medal of honor for his heroism in world war two. president barack obama and several other dignitaries >> firefighters had to battle an early morning fire at a commercial building in china. smoke could be seen pouring out of the building which is used for apartments as well as a hotel. authorities say everyone escaped the building except for a security guard. who conditions are currently >> thousands of people rallied in india. angry over a recent gang rape and beating of a young woman. as well as how the government handles rape cases. for the second straight day riot police used water cannons on the crowds that

you know, our corrections officers in the bureau of prison, you know, i don't think any federal employee deserves bashing but if you think about the very difficult and dangerous job correction officers perform on all of our behalf, guarding us against dangerous criminal who is have been incarcerated, they think price about complaining about their very, very modest compensation. earlier in the show, we talked a the house appropriation committee. the democrat projections on furloughs. it's just going to lead to more violence on the prisons, more difficulty in an already incredibly difficult job that by i think any standard is underpaid, undercompensated. so i'm sorry you're having to go through this. i'm sorry for all of us if that's the way we treat our corrections officer. host: one of our followers on twitter tweets this -- let's look at a story from the "baltimore sun" -- the federal k force. as the fiscal cliff looms, two into one piece congressman has a message for those looking for cutting the federal workplace for saving -- looked as of that. texas, democrats' line. caller: he was

bureau of justice report reveals twenty eight percent african-american men more than one in four will be jailed or sent to prison in the last. week of engaged in this country and an absolutely historically unprecedented experiment in the past in prison. we now have and imprisonment plague that is six to seven times higher than it has ever been before in our history it's awful cold. coming to the fifth prison or stuck in the system in two thousand and seven. plans to spend seven point four billion dollars to build forty thousand new prison beds. terminator. look at the population of the people in the penitentiary particularly from the one nine hundred eighty s. going forward black men are disproportionately represented that's the new video right here the band playing you know you would think of like. a little kid. you put. you in a sense. what this means is we are breaking even the possibility of there will be intact families with a mother and a father raising a child together. because we are sending a man off to prison an unprecedented rapes usually for nonviolent offenses that. would. be. even with time served

in two thousand and three bureau of justice report reveals the twenty eight percent african-american men more than one in four be jailed or sent to prison in the last . week of engaged in this country and an absolutely historically unprecedented experiment in the past in prison. we now have and imprisonment plate that is six to seven times. it's called. the fifth privilege. in two thousand and seven. plans to spend seven point four billion dollars to build forty thousand new prison. terminator. look at the population of the people in the penitentiary particularly from the one nine hundred eighty s. going for black men are disproportionately represented. the band plays. with niggers like. to put. you in a sense. what this means is we are breaking even the possibility of the big intact families with a mother and a father raising a child together. because we are sending a man off to prison an unprecedented rapes usually for nonviolent offenses that. would. even with time served so many of those determined to start a new life find little freedom in their lives. go to get a job working for xerox sent an application and they found out i was o

we were also -- we have $10 billion in here for the bureau of federal prisons. yes, prisons were affected by hurricane san di sandy. at ten federal prisons located in four states, new york you new jersey, pennsylvania, and west virginia, we need these repairs to meet safety requirements to make sure the inmates are kept secure and the prisons are fit for duty. $10 million to be able to do that. on the science side, our federal science facilities along our coast also were damaged. repairs are needed at federal laboratories, research facilities, and monitoring equipment. noaa needs $15 million for ocean and coastal equipment damaged by hurricane sandy. for example, 45 tide stations and data buoys were damaged. what does that mean? it's absolutely crucial for these buoys to give us the navigational information for safe and a halfification into affected ports. -- for safe navigation into affected port oz ports. the senator knows how important the noaa facilities are to help our ship captains have reliable and accurate data. they were damaged up and down the coast. $

of prison. >> the case has been ongoing for years, and now his mother says finally her son could soon be free. our northern virginia bureau chief has more on the newfound hope for the family. >> he has missed the last putt 12 christmases. >> this time, terry steinberg hopes that her son, who has sat in solitary confinement on death row 11 years will be free. she was shot after she learned yesterday he could be released any time. >> we are grateful for the release. >> but not angry at to not come sooner. >> getting angry does not help anything. i cannot be sad for we have lost christmases birthdays, holidays. >> he was convicted for a drug conviction. last month, a judge overturned the conviction, that prosecutors had evidence that could have hurt their case. they gave 120 days to retry wolfe but they failed to do so. the judge also barred prosecutors in the state from retrying him again. >> he has never wavered over 12 years. >> the prince william county prosecutor said, "we respectfully disagree with judge's decision." for steinberg, that could mean freedom for her son and all those who love him. >> it will be so good to

according to a report from the federal bureau of justice statistics, more than half of our country's prison population suffers or has suffered from mental disorders that only a fraction of that population receives the treatment during their incarceration, and in fact individuals with mental illness are far more likely to be victims of crime than the perpetrators. . it reveals our shared responsibility to support and treat those in this country who need our help so desperately. i urge our colleagues to support a more constructive federal roll in assuring proper and early diagnosis and intervention of affected youth and appropriate treatment and i congratulate president obama and vice president biden for their leadership in moving our nation to a better day for us all. so many of us here in congress wish to join them in this great national challenge. madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. all time for one-minute speeches has expired. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on m

prison corcoran he was recovering from a shoulder surgery. that didn't help ease the pain of being here after a 26-year career in law enforcement. >> i worked in the patrol division, narcotics bureauve bureau, personnel training in the jails. i was promoted to lieutenant in 1984. what happened? >> what sent you here? >> good question. >> after retiring, tiano and a group of friends started a charitable foundation. they raised over $3 million in donations, but then questions arose about where the money actually went. >> to make a long story short, the judge said all the money was raised was fraud even though we gave away $70,000 to little league teams, hospitals, christmas drives, thanksgiving, easter basket drives, no, it's all fraud in money. so it is fraud money, the $3.5 million is income and you owe several million dollars tax on that. >> after donating $70,000 out of the $3.5 million raised, tiano was sentenced to 18 years in prison for fraud and embezzlement. >> it is one of those things in the beginning it seems surreal and as you go through it you start to devise ways to cope or go crazy, you know? i've -- it's no secret. i'm not ashamed to say, i've thought of killing mys

prisoners made a jaw-dropping jailbreak in chicago. they climbed down the side of a chicago high-rise federal jail using a rope made of bedsheets. trace gallagher live in our west coast bureauthey, watching cartoon reruns and got the idea? >> reporr: this is one of the only skyscraper jails on the planet. the rope was 200 feet long. they had to gather 40 sheets to make this thing. inside the mattresses the guards found pieces of the window as well as the bars. under the black ketz they put clothing and sheets to make it look like the bodies were there. they were present at 10:00 but at 7:30 the next morning that temperature when they discovered the sheet rope. so they could have gotten a 9-hour jump on the cops. overnight the men did go to his mom's house and his brother's house to get some clothing and other supplies. >> kenny is kenny. he's crazy. they are sick of it. enough is enough. >> the plan was well thought out. it won't end well for him. he won't go quietly. >> reporter: both men are convicted bank robbers. but joseph banks stole $600,000. the money was never found so he could have ample resources. he represented himself in court claiming he was a member of a sove