a you-shouldn't-be- here squad. >> cara smith: and what are you charged with? theft. >> smith: and what did they say you tried to steal? >> some red bulls. >> smith: some red bull drinks. >> stahl: smith and her staff hold "office hours," looking for inmates they can help. >> smith: what we need to work on is trying to get your bond reduced so that you can bond out, so that you can get out of here. >> okay. >> smith: okay? >> yes. >> smith: okay. good luck, we'll be in touch. >> stahl: combing through cases, cara smith discovered something disturbing. they call them: "dead days." >> smith: we made up the term, but we call them dead days because people spend so much time pre-trial here at the cook county jail that once they're sentenced to prison, they've already served their term. >> stahl: they probably spent more time here than the sentence in some of the cases. >> smith: so, last year alone, we had 1,024 people who spent their entire prison term here in the cook county jail, but the more incredible statistic is that same group of people spent an extra 222 ye