we go to jackson, mississippi, to speak with jody owens. rtrt of a recent lawsuit agait the mississippi department of corrections alleging grave abuses of prisoner rights at a private prison. jody on wednesday and asked him to respond to the spike in prisoner deaths in his state. >> we continue to see a spike. doing prison litigation in mississippi promised a decade e and we havee not seen numbebers this type ev. --my: what is happening now go what is happening? >> you mention our trial with the aclu poverty law center. even during the trial, there were four deaths at a facility in east mississippi during the trial. can you imagine we are trying a lawsuit and people were successful in committing suicide? and alla violent death too often these deaths we're seeing that happen this month is the prisons are discouraging health expenditures. so individuals when they desperately need help, they find themselves getting medical help to hospital at the last minute and often too late. amy: tell us the story of nija syvallus bonhomme. what happened to