he was immediately booked into the cuyahoga county correction center.the very jail in which we met robert wolford. castro was eventually convicted and sentenced to life, plus 1,000 years in a state prison. one month later, he was found dead in his prison cell from an apparent suicide by hanging. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>>. follow lockup and crews as they go behind the walls american jails with scenes you've never seen. "lockup: raw." >> in every jail we've ever visited there are usually trublmakers and they make for compelling television.

. >> he's known at the cuyahoga county correction center in downtown cleveland as big sam. >> you used him. who's the victim? you sit here won't even open your mouth to tell me nothing about what these guys did -- >> we quickly learned gang investigator sam mclaren had a personality to match his physique. >> big sam's style was one of dedication and passion. >> you have that candy -- >> sweet. >> i'll see you later. >> thank you. >> you take care of yourself. >> he could be very caring and heartfelt in his communication, but he could also be very loud and bombastic when he felt he was being disrespected or lied to. >> this ain't no game! ain't no deals! personally going to see you, my friend. because i've been laughing since i've seen you. >> a change in these young men's lives. one example of how sam cared about the inmates, inmate tony goodwin. someone's story we have been following for a while. everybody expected him to be convicted of a murder charge and face a long term in prison. >>> we, the jury, fine the defendant not guilty of aggravated murder. >> but tony got a lesser convic

we met them inside the cuyahoga county corrections center in downtown cleveland. at the time, paris was only days away from being sentenced after pleading guilty to shooting a 15-year-old boy, leaving him paralyzed. >> shooting at people, robbing people, hustling. bad stuff always, like, is going to come back to you. it's called karma. >> i would characterize paris as pretty emotionless. he rarely showed any kind of reaction to anything. >> but we would soon learn, there was something that paris was passionate about. >> i did the main interview with paris, so then i got up and tracy, our segment producer, sat down, because when she asked the questions that are a little lighter, you know, anything about their life that has nothing to do with crime. >> so, i just wanted to chat a little bit about fun stuff. do you have any hobbies or anything like that? >> well, my mom taught me how to cook. >> suddenly, paris said he loves baking. that kind of sparked my interest. i think off-camera, i said -- >> what would you dream about becoming? if it wasn't on the streets, did

he was immediately booked into the cuyahoga county correction center. the very jail in which we met robert wolford. castro was eventually convicted and sentenced to life, plus 1,000 years in a state prison. one month later, he was found dead in his prison cell from an apparent suicide by hanging. >>> it's a housing unit with a reputation. >> it's a party. it's a party. >> it can get pretty wild here in "g" dorm. >> it's like a big sorority house, but with a bunch of friggin' gay people in jail. >> and "g" dorm is about to turn one new inmate's life upside down. >> i'm just scared. i'm scared to death. i just want my mom.

are being ripped to splinters in cleveland, cuyahoga county, ohio. here, the great recession left 1/5 of all houses vacant. the owners walked away because they couldn't or wouldn't keep paying on a mortgage debt that can be twice the value of the home. cleveland waited four years for home values to recover, but in 2011, they decided to face facts and bury the dead. why destroy them? jim rokakis, a former county treasurer, showed us. >> we're looking at a neighborhood that has almost as many vacant houses awaiting demolition as there are houses with people living in them. we have one here. one here. one there. >> rokakis is leading the effort to tear down thousands of abandoned homes because they're rotting their neighborhoods from the inside out. it often starts, he told us, when a vacant house becomes an open house to thieves. it's a nice house from the roof to about here. and then down here, it's been ripped to pieces. what's going on? >> well, this is typical, because this is as high as they could reach without using ladders. they've ripped off th

he was immediately booked into the cuyahoga county correction center.robert wolford. castro was eventually convicted and sentenced to life, plus 1,000 years in a state prison. one month later, he was found dead in his prison cell from an apparent suicide by hanging. dw >>> they go behind the walls of america's prison and jails. the veins that you've never seen. "lock-up raw." >>> every jail we've ever visited there's usually troublemakers and they make for compelling television. >> come over here and

he was immediately booked into the cuyahoga county correction center.ery jail in which we met robert wolford. castro was eventually convicted and sentenced to life, plus 1,000 years in a state prison. one month later, he was found dead in his prison cell from an apparent suicide by hanging. >>> you are about to enter the lethal mind of serial rapist and murderer james dusty rhodes. >> i took the knife. and immediately started stabbing her. >> rhodes is a married father of two who leads a double life as a vicious sexual predator and killer. >> i would sneak in covered in blood in two cases. my family had no clue. >> his wife was a lovely young woman. and they had two beautiful children. just a

he was immediately booked into the cuyahoga county correction center.we met robert wolford. castro was eventually convicted and sentenced to life, plus 1,000 years in a state prison. one month later, he was found dead in his prison cell from an apparent suicide by hanging. .. >>> he was down here with a noose around his neck. >> a gang member makes a desperate cry for help. >> i just need somebody to talk to. >> there's currently only four inmates housed in this pod which normally houses 32 inmates. >> completely isolated from other inmates, maricopa's four

>>> 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 confiscated what had remained of the bedding from the

the cuyahoga river in ohio, it took that river catching on fire. it took a river catching on fire for the u.s. public to say wait a second, we have a problem here we need to do something about. so some of us, you know, think that we may unfortunately need to have that cuyahoga river moment in the climate change debate before we will act. something so undeniable that even the most well funded, well organized disinformation campaign cannot convince the public not to believe what they're seeing with their own two eyes. >> when you talk to other scientists and urge them to get into the fight, do they explain their reluctance? >> what i perceive is that this problem is starting to solve itself naturally through sort of generational change. many of the younger scientists that i talk to, you know, graduate students today, young post docs, they grew up in a different environment. they witnessed the attacks on science. to many of them, it upset them. it upset them that scientists were being attacked for simply speaking truth to power. and it sort of energiz

he was immediately booked into the cuyahoga county correction center.which we met robert wolford. castro was convicted and sentenced to life in a prison. one month later he was found dead in his prison cell from an apparent suicide by hanging. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen. "lockup: raw." >> what is it? what is it? >> a fight. >> when our crews go behind prison walls, we know always to expect the unexpected. we've seen bloody assaults. >> we got another cut up here, guys. >> inmate rage. >> we will not negotiate with terrorists! >> destruction in the cell

@ñ >>> inside cleveland's cuyahoga county correction center, cynthia sovario rose up.the rank of pod boss in her unit. when she rose to intimidation, she was transferred. >> after she transferred to her new housing unit, her whole demeanor seemed to calm down. she was not the tough cookie that she had been before that. she suddenly wanted to talk to her children. one of her children had reached out to her and basically taken on the mother role, which is something we see quite a bit. >> she said, mom, you need to get it together, and she's only seven years old. mom, you need to get it together. >> she had another thought to think about, too. her trial is approaching. if found guilty she would face significant prison time because of her prior record and now the often confrontational inmate seemed ready to throw in the towel. >> i go to court tomorrow so i might just take a plea. i already look bood bad. my record is horrible. and if i take it to trial, they're going to eat me alive. i'm not going to do that. i'm just tired. if they're going to send me maryville, let it b

-- the burning of the cuyahoga river.ted thinking about it. the only state that totally banned passenger pigeon hunting of any kind was michigan. that's the good news. bad news? it happened in 1897 when there were hardly any left. so law came too late. but the loss of the bird, the decimation of bison, the fight over the use of heron featherrers for -- fepters for hat decorations helped spawn the first environmental movement. and out of that movement came the lacey act which makes it illegal to engage in the interstate commerce of illegally-obtained birds. and more importantly, the migratory bird treaty act. so these laws still today are the principle bulwark, legal bulwark by which we manage our birds. so the loss of the birdied, you know bird did, you know, lead to the protections we have. >> and another use for people capturing pimg johns, they were the pigeons used in trap shooting, right? it was actual pigeons? >> back in the day, you know, if you went out, the the pigeons would be made out of flesh and blood. so liv

." >>> in the heart of downtown cleveland is the cuyahoga county correction center. >> this is how it go in the county joint. >> ain't no talking. >> like virtually all jails, most of the inmates here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. women make up about 12% of the total inmate population of 1800. and though they are a minority, they still make their presence known. >> one of the surprising things we find out visiting various jails across the country is that the staff tell us that the male inmates are easier to manage than the female inmates. women like to socialize more. >> we're not nasty. >> we are not nasty bitches. >> it's a chance for them to bond, make life easier to do their time and so on. >> everybody like when these ho's say something. >> but soon there's a turn that takes place. that socializing leads to bickering. >> you looking at me? >> that leads to a lot of drama for the staff. >> [ bleep ]. >> what you say, bitch? >> during our shoot in cleveland we discovered that inmate cynthia irasari was certainly well known in he

the cuyahoga works cannery center in cleveland is one of those programs. it's run out of the cuyahoga county library, known as one of the best library systems in the county. the center shared a few success stories with me i'd like to share. teacher was laid off from cleveland public schools three years ago, began substitute teaching while they worked as a can i oh ga works career counselor. the counselor -- the counselor showed her how to usual social networking and linkedin more effectively. as a result, she connected with an administrator in a local school district who invited her to discuss her job search. during this meeting, the teacher learned that although she had a strong background, she could benefit from taking a couple computer classes. the can i oh gworks center guido computer courses. shortly afterward, the teacher let her career counselor know she'd accepted a long-term position in one of the local school districts. while visiting the new cleveland casino, the cuyahoga works career counselor was stopped by an employee who worked with her on h

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as we all have now learned, cuyahoga county has become ground zero for the attempts to restrict the daysarly voting, et cetera. do you think in a perverse way the supreme court blowing up the voting rights act will allow congress, if you are successful, to expand it to places like ohio that weren't covered by preclearance? >> absolutely no question about it. we are pleased at the fact that now ohio can be covered. prior to the court decision, we had real issues about making sure our people were going to be properly given the right to vote. let me just say this. justice roberts, if he really believes that you can just say, let's stop discriminating race just by stopping to discriminating it, we would not today still be dealing with voting rights some 50 years after the civil rights act. we would not still be dealing with voting rights after bloody sunday. we would not still be dealing with it after freedom summer. so the justice may have done us a favor in some respects, but i believe they incorrectly determined that there was no voting discrimination in shelby county. >> and as somebody

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in -- by cuyahoga community college. each city was different and the effort in each city looked different but in every city there were local organizations and leaders with a vision to see the need and willingness to fill it. and never city, that local knowledge and personalized outreach was crucial to success. and that is why it is so exciting, really a true pleasure, to be here with all of you today, so i can thank you in person for the work you've done and we can celebrate together. there's also someone else who wanted to thank all of you as well but he's a very busy man and couldn't be here today. he's someone who needs very little introduction and who has played a pretty big role in expanding coverage to millions of americans. so without further ado i'd like to play for you a message that e recorded for all of you. >> hi, everybody, thanks for being part of our effort to enroll america. we have always said change doesn't come from washington, it comes to washington. cheage happens when ordinary americans stand up and

in cleveland i saw an overflowing enrollment event hosted by cuyahoga community college. each city was different and the effort in each city looked different but in every city there were local organizations and leaders with a vision to see the need and willingness to fill it. that local knowledge and personalized outreach was crucial to success. and that is why it is so exciting, really a true pleasure, to be here with all of you today, so i can thank you in person for the work you've done and we can celebrate together. there's also someone else who wanted to thank all of you as well but he's a very busy man and couldn't be here today. he's someone who needs very little introduction and who has played a pretty big role in expanding coverage to millions of americans. so without further ado i'd like to play for you a message that he recorded for all of you. >> hi, everybody, thanks for being part of our effort to enroll america. we have always said change doesn't come from washington, it comes to washington. cheage happens when ordinary americans stand up and make it happen