his stay at cuyahoga county was extended.ou must remain until the new charge is resolved in court. evans pled not guilty, but if convicted, he could be sentenced to eight years in prison. other inmates like perry mckinney and his identical twin brother, herbert mckinney, don't get into much trouble in jail, but present a different security issue. >> it does create a security problem for us, because it will be difficult to identify who they are. they could be switching off and even could get to the point if one of them was going to get released and they could switch identities and things like that. >> someone might get the wrong impression. >> switching identities to fool law enforcement is in the mckinney brothers' playbook, as perry explains. >> he got a dui and used my name. he was on probation, so i took it. so i ended up taking the dui for him. so the first dui i ever got, i really didn't get. >> like, what's your name? i'm, like, my name's perry mckinney. and it's funny, because they took pictures of my tattoo and it say

you're arrested in cleveland, you could spend anywhere from a few hours to several years inside the cuyahogaounty correction center. most of the 2200 men and women incarcerated here have only been charged with crimes and are weight trial of the resolution of their cases. some say the jail is a city unto itself but its director would disagree. >> i don't think this is a little city. i don't think there's a city like this in the real world. only because we have a large volume of very difficult people. >> everyone else put your hands up on your head. >> people with a lot of troubles and a lot of needs. >> according to correctional starvegs inmate charles evans fits that description. >> i'm charles now but they used to call me allen. i've been coming here since 1994. i used to be a big time drug dealer, all this and that. everybody in this building know who i am. >> evans is currently serving a six-month sentence for theft, but during his stay, he's managed to make matters a whole lot worse. >> this is all his disciplinary isolation that we've gone through. not even been here a year yet. >> been

but his final days at cuyahoga county are proving to be painful. >> it burns! it burns!y god it burns! >> calm down. >> he's in security segregation for swinging at an officer. >> do you hear me? this is not a game. they got me in here for no reason. oh, my god, man. >> he must answer to the jail's disciplinary board. >> how are you doing? >> how are you? >> though silk appears unwilling to respond, the hearing continues. >> initially you pleaded not guilty to a jail investor to those charges that i read you. do you want to change your plea to any of those charges? >> no. >> you want to plead you're not guilty? >> yes. >> there's video footage of you admitting that you swung at the officer. >> why did you -- >> i didn't mean to. i was like. >> why? >> i was angry. >> you stated you were mad because you were placed in lockup and that you were happy that you did not hit him in the face. do you remember that? >> yes, i remember that. >> do you take any type of medication? >> yes i do. >> what do you take? >> nothing at the time. >> is that because you're refusing? >> i have

>>> rising 11 stories above the shores of lake erie, cuyahoga correction center encompasses half a block in the downtown. some of the inmates here have been convicted, most have only been accused of crimes and awaiting trial of the resolution of the cases. those on the upper floors have a perfect view of the nearby football stadium but life behind the walls is anything but fun and games. >> let's go! >> that goes for staff as well. >> this is not the easiest place to work in. it's all concrete and rough edges. >> stick out your tongue. altercations come up and we have to alleviate those as quick as possible. >> view of your hands. real tough? >> inmate lawrence recently sentenced to ten months for aggravated threat now awaiting transfer to prison has been subdued by the special response team after swinging at an officer. >> lawrence silva -- >> the inmate asked me to help him out with the situation, get back to the back wall of your cell. i entered the cell and he said it's [ bleep ] up i'm up here. sir, i just got into this pod, i don't know what situation you're in. he took a step and

but his arrival at cuyahoga county will not soon be forgotten. >> ah!inconsistencies in his story and his immediate response to a sedative left the jail's mental health staff speculating as to whether jordan's behavior was due to a disorder, drug use or if it was all just an act. >> he might have wanted psychotic looking behavior to build his defense strategy. >> he's a very smart guy. when you're on the run, you've got to play your cards very close to the vest and make all the right moves. it's not easy to be on the run. so it's very possible that he decided to do it for a secondary gain. >> justice, he's in my [ bleep ] head! >> i could truly make an argument for ten different reasons what could have gone on that night. and we may never know. as they say, there is the one version, the other version, and somewhere in between is what really happened. >> michael keenan spent over two decades on death row before a judge dismissed his case for prosecutorial misconduct. today he is a free man, making his way through a world vastly different than the one he

that poses one of the larger security threats at the cuyahoga county correction center.s had his eye on the top spot. >> i want to be the hnic, i want to call all the shots and be the top man. >> incarceration however, especially in a 23 hour a day lockup can have a way of altering goals. >> want to talk to me? >> yeah. >> cooperwood asks to speak to officer henderson who tried to get through to the 18-year-old inmate in the past. >> i already talked to everybody, you know, members and i'm getting out -- >> done with it. >> i'm done with the familiar. >> what made you come to this decision. >> i've been sitting on it. i have two sons and when i get out they'll be two years and change and three years and change. they'll still be young. i'm going to be there the whole time. i'm not going to go nowhere. because of them i ain't going to come back to jail. i spent too much time here it ain't cool. >> that's awesome, i'm proud of you for real, that's real good. that's showing that the maturity. >> i think he's sincere. all i can do is believe in him and hope the best for him.

but for the 2200 men and women in the 11th story complex, it is the cuyahoga correctional center. it isn all. >> ts ait the place to be, it's like a little prison. >> i see girls in here crying, hysterical, i want to kill myself, this and that. it's bad. this is real bad in here. real bad. >> this place is crazy, they take everything, they might take your life. do what you can to get out and stay out. if you're just getting out, good, keep it that way. >> majority of inmates are currently accused of crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. it is a world fraught with uncertainty. >> every day things are going on. when you think it's quiet, it's not, like a movie, when you don't see, that's when you don't worry, when it's quiet, that's when you ought to be worried. >> today the q is broken by a code 1025. >> all available responders respond to the area. >> responding officers arrive at maximum security where a commotion between several inmates has already been contained. >> i figured out, 50 dollars. >> randy smith says several inmates stole a phone card and f

at&t. ♪ >>> the cuyahoga correction center is located in the heart of downtown cleveland.ide the walls it's a gang known as the heartless felons that keeps big sam mcclaren busy. >> one, there's so many of them. >> step back. >> i wouldn't be surprised if we didn't have 400 heartless felons here. you can put a tenderizer on meat to soften it up, anybody they have a target for, they pick at you and slap you and get you angry, you're either going to fight back and give in. i call it a tenderizing process. i want your food tray, give it here. you don't do anything about it, they got you. >> lockdown. >> that sort of activity has already led to unit 10-c being put on lockup status. now one floor below in unit 9-c an officer has noticed new injuries to an inmate and reported them to sergeant daniels. >> oh, yeah, i see that. >> the injured inmate is nick desilo. >> he wouldn't say -- another inmate told who hit him so i guess he was scared to say who did it but obviously you can tell. >> we can go out here and talk. >> sergeant daniels leads him out to the hallway so they can t

still, being separated inside the cuyahoga county correction center has been painful. >> it's one of and i are so close. you know, i just want to see my brother. it would make life a lot easier for everybody, especially for me because i love my brother. >> it's a bond that can't be broken, you know? just total love. >> perry has just reached a plea deal that will soon send him to prison. by entering a guilty plea, his felonyious assault karch for a bar fight was reduced to aggravated assault and sentenced to one year in prison. knowing he will soon transfer out, jail officials granted a brief visit with herbie. >> about damn time. hey, what's up? >> how you doing? >> how are you doing? >> you look good. i thought you were skinny. >> man. >> muscles it though. >> [ bleep ]. >> yeah, only muscle you got is in your mouth. >> you look good though. >> thank you. i love you. >> you too. >> you look great. >> it's great. >> despite their love for each other, the brothers know their relationship poses dangers to them both. >> we destroy each other. >> we can build each other up but then -- i

cuyahoga county. sales tax across the board.10,000 different tax enties or and taxing units within this country. how do the small business figure out to comply with a law they might have to send sales tax revenue to chief lapped, cuyahoga county, state of ohio? it sounds incredibly complicated and incredibly expensive for that business? >> that talking point comes out of 1992 supreme court decision points out complexity with dealing with all the different tax jurisdictions. in 20th century there is app for that. we think technology can solve most of the problems efficiently and quickly. most online marketplaces like ebay already serve to collect sales tax from their local small, their small sellers online. adam: but ebay is ale opposed to legislation. they want the cap raised to $10 million in sales annually. i'm curious. anyone ever said how much it would cost a business, let's say around 900,000 in revenue to comply or buy the app or get software that would allow them to be compliant? >> most recent study i saw from 2006. tech

now, decades ago the cuyahoga river in ohio was on fire. massive air pollution hung over our cities and our lakes were dying from pollution. decades ago. the american people demanded action. we didn't wait for china or anybody else. we passed landmark laws. the clean air act, the clean water act, the safe drinking water act, super fund; all of these great landmark pieces of legislation that came from the committee on which i serve, and i stand on the shoulders of those former chairmen, republican and democratic, including john chafee, who i loved, who was so strong on this. and, by the way, strong on sensible gun laws too. now, people said, oh, they predicted terrible things would happen to our society when we pass these landmark laws. but guess what happened over the last 40 years? america's gross domestic product has risen by over 200%. so this is not a choice between economic development versus environmental cleanup. they go hand in hand. because if you can't breathe, you can't work, mr. president. if you can't breathe, you can't go to s

. >> on june 22, 1969, the cuyahoga river in cleveland ohio caught fire when a train rolled by and itsparks flew off the track, igniting the vast oil spots in the river. >> in 2002, the u.s. reached a record for largest dead zone in u.s. history. it sits at the mouth of the mississippi river. when it rains, runoff filled with sewage and many other harmful chemicals are washed off streets and is drained into the mississippi river and enters the gulf of mexico. this nutrient overload leads to a surplus of algal blooms, killing the majority of aquatic life in the area. >> in 2012, this dead zone was the size of connecticut. >> in april of 2010, the bp infamous oil spill terrorized the country. >> nearly 200 million gallons of toxic crude oil were spilled in some of the richest, most diverse waters anywhere in the world. we know that thousands of birds were killed -- whales -- everything from shrimp to sperm whales, plankton to pelicans. we know that there were plumes of oil the size of manhattan at 3,000 feet of water careening through this gulf. we know that there is a carpet of oil up t