the hillsborough county jail consists of two sprawling facilities located four miles away from each other. combined they can house close to 5,000 inmates. most of the men and women here have recently been arrested and have not been convicted of a crime but are awaiting trial for settlement of their cases. some inmates have been convicted but are serving short sentences. usually less than two years. either way, time here is no vacation. >> jail is a pretty awful place. this is by no stretch of the mile some kind of spa. you're here for a reason and you have to make the best of a bad situation when you can. >> 31-year-old sheree dean is trying to do just that. dean is serving the last 30 days of a 6-month sentence for cocaine possession. she says she developed an addiction from a lifestyle that included working in strip clubs and prostitution. >> i started out being a topless stripper. i was like oh my god, i would never dance nude, i would never do that. then i started dancing nude and started meeting customers for money. it's like a whole lifestyle. i always worked at high-end clubs and d

but at hillsborough county, they spend their shifts on the floor in the open.a system known as direct supervision and it has been proven to reduce violence in other problems by allowing deputies to build a rapport with the inmates. >> if you like dealing with people, this is a great place to work. i love dealing with people, that's why my degree is in sociology. >> but pressey and every other deputy in the jail knows that violence can erupt suddenly, as an incident two years earlier dramatically illustrated. a 64-year-old deputy was working at his desk in the housing unit just as inmates were finishing lunch. suddenly, inmate douglas burden rushes him and puts him in a potentially fatal choke hold. as several other inmates jump into the fray, one of them reaches in and grabs the deputy's radio. >> the radio call that came across was unlike any other, because it wasn't a deputy signal. the inmate stated "emergency, 911," and deputy moon was on the floor being attacked by mr. burden. >> deputy lorie garcia was among the officers who responded. >> there were a num

but life of hillsborough county is a world of extremes.nother young man confined here faces the possibility of never seeing home again. >> all i have to do is use this time as best i can and hope i get out. >> 19-year-old kendrick morris was found guilty on two counts of sexual battery with a deadly weapon. he is awaiting sentencing. prosecutors are asking for 120 years. >> a young lady was going to the community library, she was assaulted, drug behind the library, beaten within an inch of her life and brutally raped. >> after morris had been taken into custody for the library attack, authorities connected him to another assault that had occurred ten months earlier. >> it actually had been the assailant in another rape of an elderly day care worker. >> morris was also convicted of that crime and is now in jail awaiting sentencing. he still claims he's innocent. >> they say anything else, armed robbery or something like that, maybe i will say i'm capable of it but rape, no. attacking a girl, no. hitting a girl, no. at the end of the day, th

sergeant gary herman is a canine handler for the hillsborough county sheriff's office. to give the deputies an opportunity to interact with his patrol dog, stitch, and to experience the strength of his jaws. just as a fleeing suspect would. >> that's what job is about, it's about doing different things, exciting things. i like to feel the adrenaline. it's great. >> you know you have a protecting suit on, still, it gets through the suit. it gets your skin. it's like little pinches and it hurts. there's my battle scars. >> i'm feeling a little bit of anxiety, a little nervous. but basically want to get it over with and have it done. attaboy. good boy. >> i hope that for all you guys that this has been a good experience. the tough part about it is i can only pick one of you. it ain't going to be easy. i can tell you that. honestly, all of you guys have shown the qualities we're looking for. thanks a lot, guys. i appreciate it. you know, you can limp around and say you got attacked by a dog and try to milk that for all you can today, all right? >> drugs have played a role i

the hillsborough county jail is actually comprised of two sprawling facilities with an average daily population of more than 3500 men and women. >> it takes a bit walking from one point to the other so we like to utilize golf carts. depending upon where i'm going and what my function is when i get there, if i have to be there in a hurry, i definitely use the cart. it's smarter. if i'm going two housing units down, i'll usually walk and get exercise. >> four miles away is the orient road facility where up to another 1700 inmates can be housed. both are led by a secret service agent who learn ed traveling wih the vice president. >> traveling around with vice president cheney taught me a lot of self-discipline qualities i need to succeed here. much of what i learned there has helped me running the jails. >> we run a pretty orderly operation here. the inmate behavior for the most part is not to a level we're concerned. we look at jails around the country, violence is pretty widespread, not what we typically deal with on a regular basis. >> here, 140 arrestees are processed at the orient

system, the patriot, the aegis, along with design aircraft like the f/a18 hornet, the black hillsborough county talking about a long list here. this is affecting major contractors some who doesn't know this was happening to them until government authorities like the fbi knocked on their doors and said, hey, this is happening this could give the chinese a huge advantage of billions of dollars they skipping forward their own research and taking someone else's. it is happening to other countries. reports in australia overnight, their version of a cia headquarters have been stolen by the chinese. beijing continues to deny all the reports saying they don't support the hacking. tracy: this is crazy. diplomacy, excuse me, is it working? we have governor tom ridge coming on next saying president obama better get tough with this? as ash, said, we heard this for years. >> that's right. basically it is happening. the dialogue is happening at every single level but the public -- clearly didn't work out. this will be a top level issue at every single meeting with strategic and economic dialogue and meeting