we're spending the hour with shane bauer, sarah shourd and josh fattal. eir book, "a sliver of light: three americans imprisoned in iran." it is just out. at first, sarah and shane were held in neighboring cells and josh was separate, then the men were put together and sarah was held alone in solitary confinement. i asked them about their interrogations and whether they were tortured. we start with sarah shourd. >> interrogations, i mean, in the beginning we were hunger striking. i was completely disoriented. but i still had a hard time taking the line of questioning seriously because it was just a total farce. one of the things they demanded of me was to draw a picture of the lobby of the pentagon. i said, i've never been to the pentagon. i've never even been to washington, d.c. at this time i had never been there. he said, but you are a teacher. all teachers go to the pentagon. if i did not know at some level that i was in serious danger, i would have laughed out loud. at the same time, it was impossible to laugh. >> there were times they asked ,e one qu

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when their friend josh fattal flu flew in for a visit though decided to take a run up to the hills ofaterfalls complete with hiking and picnic. it was a stone's throw away from the iran-iraq border but they say they had absolutely no intention of crossing it. it was a perfect day and the trail beckoned were there any markings saying that there was a border? >> no. there are no markings. >> a fence? >> no, no, nothing. >> no sign. >> no. >> did anyone say to you, you're dangerously close to the border? >> no. dove knitly not. >> shourd, bauer and fattal were taken in to custody and driven to tehran where they were locked up on charges of espionage. except for the phone call or letter they were cut off from the world. >> when we got to the jail cell, i looked at me says, josh, how are you doing? i want to have kids one day. and as the hard part -- i realize that if i were america i'm not sure i would have cared about the american hikers. >> you don't think so? >> what the hell were they doing there? i would have said, there are tens of thousands of people who are in prison around the wo

when their friend josh fattal flew in, the three decided to take a run up to hills of iraqi kurdistang paths. iraq's ahmed awa was a stone's throw away but they had no plans to cross it. it was a perfect day and they had no plans of crossing it. >> with there any the markings. >> no. >> a fence. >> no. >> did anyone say you were dangerously close to the border? >> no, they did not. >> they were locked up on charges of espionage. except for the occasional let ore phone call, the three friends were for the most part cut off from the world. >> shane bauer, sarah shourd and josh fattal are authors of a new book. welcome. >> thank you so much. >> it's so great to see all of you here. >> gret to be be here. >> there must have within times you didn't know you'd be here or were you always confident you'd get through this? >> well, there were times we didn't know if we'd get out or come home and see our families again. the reason we chose the title of the book is somehow we were able to come back. that was our strength between friends. >> how did this happen? >> i mean simply -- i had a feelin

that's how long american hikers shane bauer and josh fattal were in jail on espionage charges.solitary confinement, an experience so defining when he did make it back home seven months later, he began investigating how we use that same punishment here in the u.s. he found many people who think we overincarcerate and overpunish. and in a new report for mother jones magazine, he describes how many are rethinking their justice policies, including some republicans. to understand this reevaluation, i think you have to look at how we got here. today's broken, overcrowded, and unjust prison system can really be traced to this moment, june 17th, 1971. >> america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse. in order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new all-out offensive. >> even then, though, few understood just how much offense the government was about to play. republicans led the way and many democratic politicians followed suit, that included tip o'neill who reacted to the overdose death of glen bias with a big campaign. that campaign that st

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