i am very grateful to be helped. >> "america tonight's" lori jane gliha with a surprising turn in the high cost of justice. in a moment we speak again with "america tonight"'s lori jane gliha, about the tactic that cleveland is using to avoid paying these bills and what the consequence of that might be. paying the high price of justice. "america tonight's" lori jane gliha, joinings us to speak about the broaders contexts of that. for people who have sued and won judgments against city, in your earlier piece they thought they might never get the money that the courts say they're due. >> reporter: right, and they feel it's a possibility even though one was award he 13.2 million and another 5.5 million, one is under appeal and another is in another lawsuit accusing cleveland of coming up with this strange tactic. david ayers who spent a decade behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, researching and finding out that the city had hired bankruptcy attorneys on behalf of these officers, during her research she found out this is something that never happened, that cleveland had never done t

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but "america tonight's" lori jane gliha found at least one community, a surge in the sisterhood. >> societyligious life as giving up things. we always portray i it as no sex no money, you have to do what the superior says. who would do that? that added to my terror going into it. >> reporter: as a teenage are in catholic school, tracy never imagined she might become a nun or a sister in the church. >> i'm like nobody does that anymore, right? like young people don't do that anymore. it wasn't something i had considered. >> reporter: in her early 20s she had a serious boyfriend and plans to eventually walk down the aisle but when she pictured herself growing old with him, something wasn't quite right. >> i was so in love with him. but when i thought about marrying him, it felt like a door closing. and when i thought about religious life even though every ounce of me did not want to feel this way, it felt like a big blue sky opening up. >> she had been volunteering in ecuador and teaching english to underprivileged children. it was very different from where she grew up in a middle classed cin

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in an "america tonight" exclusive, correspondent lori jane gliha met victims and a courageous nurse who now admits her role in destroying their futures. >> i thought at the time, i was doing the right thing. it's what our legislators wanted at that time and what my bosses wanted. even the president of the united states, you trusted all of those people. so i went right along with them. >> 87-year-old celia vanzegrift remembers her time in the operating room as a nurse in the colony known as the epileptic and feeble minded. teens from broken homes alcoholics and others whom the state considered inadequate. >> how many sterilizations do you think you observed during your career there? >> oh my goodness, i continue begin to tell you. >> she witnessed severa many sterilizations. >> was everybody pretty calm? >> they were asleep by the time they got to the operating room. >> reporter: it is the first time vandegrift has talked about a dark period in the history, the height of the eugenics period. in 1924, lawmakers passed the virginia eugenic al cal sterilization act. according to vandegrift,

lori jane gliha. ahead of the state's primary march 8 we wanted to take a look back at the water trup troublest have plagued the city since 2014. leed lead contamination and a water problem that may be linked to several deaths. it may be hard to believe but just a few months ago, it was difficult for flint residents to even have their voices heard. >> to say to flint residents they are not people that are disposable. we just are not. it is a crime for people to be serviced with water that's classified by the epa as toxic waste. >> reporter: at rhonda kelso's house in flint michigan -- >> i have a filter here. >> that is one of the official ones? >> filters out the lead. >> reporter: the 52-year-old stroke survivor says she won't drink it. >> i have to depend on other family members and friends to take me places, and help me to go and get bottled water. >> this is water that came out the tap, look at this green at the bottom. >> reporter: it was only a few months ago when she says she collected this fr

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