who has been through cuyahoga's county revolving door. over the past 14 years, culverson, who identifies as a transgender name ceecee, has done time for convictions, including forgery and theft and felonious assault. >> this right here is a safety zone for me because out there i'm self-destructive. i think i'm above the law. i like to steal cars and i like to rob old men and sell drugs, and i'm at the point where i would do anything to maintain gucci. i like the best. >> currently awaiting trial on drug trafficking and burglary charges to which he has pled not guilty. culverson said he's been planning for a sex change operation. >> i'm a woman, got a 34-b, all right. and i'm still taking hormone pills, it will help me make the process exchange a little easier because it's painful, and i i've got to make sure that it's something they want to do. so they give me extra time to make sure it's what i want to do. once you get it done, there's no going back. >> are you scared to get your [ bleep ] cut off? >> i thought they would splint it and p

the cuyahoga county correction center. >> face the wall! >> about 30,000 men and women from the city and outlying areas are booked into this jail each year. the majority will be released within 24 hours. but about 2,200 occupied beds here for an indefinite period, most are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial for resolution of their cases. and like cleveland itself, the jail can be said to have tough neighborhoods of its own, especially the tenth floor. >> this is our maximum security floor. for the most part, that is where we how's our problematic inmates, inmates in some type of disciplinary lockup and we have our individuals that are here on high profile charges. >> the floor is managed by the special response team or sert, a tactical unit trained in the use of riot gear and controlling high risk inmates. >> we like to keep them close to our problems. that's kind of why they manage the floor. >> and problems do occur here. sert has just been called to a fight. little do they know, they might have been sabotaged. >> wet floor. >>

. >>> judy bruce's body was sent to the cuyahoga county coroner for an autopsy. the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. >> the final coroner's report indicated cause of death was affixation. she was actually smothered to death. >> the time of death is an inexact science but was estimated to be either shortly before or within a few hours after larry and the children left the house. the autopsy also revealed that judy's bladder was empty. >> when you consider a person who is dying of suffocation, when they die that way, their bladder evacuates involuntarily. >> investigators found no significant urine sample near judy's body in the park. this was another indication she was killed elsewhere. interestingly, judy's children told police their father had complained about some soiled bed sheets shortly after judy disappeared. >> i can remember him, came around and threw in a bed sheet into the trash. i was why are you burning that? he's like, the dog urinated on it. >> on hearing this news, police immediately confiscate what had remained of the bedding from the

but for the 2200 men and women in the 11th story complex, it is the cuyahoga correctional center. it isn't all it's cracked up to be. >> this ain't 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 much crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. it is a world frout 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 quiet is broken about 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 se

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and in cleveland, the local industrial sewer, the cuyahoga river, caught fire.ironmentalists had found a loophole in the gnp. the gnp measures goods and services traded, for example, scrubbers used to clean sulfur emissions. clean air isn't bought or sold, so it's not counted. if sulfur is not cleaned up, the resulting pollution is not subtracted. gnp is not reduced. gnp fails to take into account environmental values. if we produce a lot of goods and services, if we use up machinery, that's deducted depreciation from net national product. but if we dirty the atmosphere, if we cause more houses to have to be painted, that deterioration is not taken into account. if it makes more people sick and they go to more doctors, that increases gnp, because doctors' services are part of gnp. by now i think that most national income statisticians concede that we can never produce a measure of aggregate economic welfare in the sense of well-being. for one thing, it's hard to add together people's satisfactions. and if you're looking primarily at gnp as a production measure,

meaning it could shake a stick to the cuyahoga. new to the gate to sum it up again and people who will get us a subtle tone i could see the total payout to push me. hancock also criticized the medical progress. and this is a nation that stuff. evidently we know which aims to allow for a lack of access to government information tunisia is this if there's a more transparent. she said the information is not shared systematically an organic fundamental improvements to her plan. have to love ibm means. tougher penalties will be in palestine companies found leaking client data are using its advanced or the sense that this is the latest measure in the government's response to the largest ever personal information breach that still has many rattle the ad has the teacups. it really was the daddy party and government financial agencies have and the look of total price that a preventive measures against future detail weeks. this ask me to continue to cope with the fallout from the massive leak of person one from each city and the country's th

creating this guiser in the street with water gushing several story stories in the a this is outside of cuyahogavisitation services planned for thursday evening and her funeral friday for m. jane seymour. she ran for re-election twice for council and won, and then ran for vienna mayor, and won, twi twice. >> she was a great lady and great personality, and always thought about the people, and took her job very seriously. >> it is a huge loss for vienna as far as somebody who put so much into ensuring that vienna remains the great place that it is. >> the vice mayor will fill the job until somebody is appointed by the council to finish the term that ends in june. >>> and now, there are two bills before the senate concerning marijuana. montgomery county senator jamie raskens' plan would make marijuana legal for people over 21, and he wants it taxed like alcohol. and people caught with 10 grams or less would pay a fine instead of jail time, and a similar bill died in the house last session. >> a break is coming for maryland families who have struggled to stay warm during this cold winter. gornor o'm

>> now, david, you write in the book, you remind us about silent spring, you remind us about the cuyahogaan people pause and say, oh, wait a minute, we do need to pay attention to environmental policy, because it so fundamentally impacts our health. are there, sort of, reasonable engineering, scientific ways, right, even beyond the politics of it to say, these are the better ways to ensure that we will have clean and clear water supplies? >> absolutely, melissa. there is always a better way of solving the problem. the real issue is that we don't turn our attention to infrastructure until there's a real crisis or a perceived crisis. and it's in moments like this, it's in moments where the public's attention is focused on a chemical spill or a drought or some other problem, where we have the ability to say, hey, there's another way of doing things, and we have to start investing in that other way. and if we do that, we're going to feel a lot better about the safety and reliability of our water systems. >> and so, it seems to me, though, that the part of david's point that we don't look unti