. >> melvin moore is just learning how to use a smartphone and a computer after getting out of prison. while sitting in prison he was thrilled to learn that his grandmother was going to leave him a small inheritance but before moore found out how much he was getting, before he saw a dime of it, before he got out the illinois department of corrections learned out about the inheritance and told the state attorney general lisa madigan about it. >> it's crazy. >> she then sued moore for his room and board in prison. $338,000. >> it was a shock to me when i first saw it then, when i started thinking about it i was you know i was upset about it because i didn't understand and i still don't understand it. >> the attorney general's office is relying on a 1982 law that allows the state to sue to recover money for room and board. it's a law the state is using more and more in recent years as are other states. brian nelson of the uptown people's law center focuses on people's rights and he says an inmate is basically helpless. >> there is a rule you have to disclose assets to the department of c

. >> melvin moore says as tough as things are for him right now, he can't help think of a grandmother who left him that inheritance. >> she wouldn't have given it to me if she knew they would have taken away from me. some way to fit in, i still -- i don't fit in. >> andy rosegen, al jazeera, chicago. >> and that's our show for today. i'm ali velshi. thank you for joining us, the news continues here on al jazeera america. appropriate manner until we're dragging dead bodies out of buildings >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. this special edition of america tonight. just off the coast of the pacific north-west lies a potential killer, a 700 million long geological fault line called the kerr cascadiasubducti, on zone. the big one. it lies far out to sea. hidden beneath the waves. the waiting earthquake. >> i try and look as it could happen any day >>> this man is a regional manager for the federal emergency management agency in the pacific north-west. one of these earthquakes could be a monster. >> i think people are just not mentally or physically prepared to think about how bad so

gary moore wanted on firearm charges by the state police is locked up and will face a judge. will that be the case for melvining for him in a violent attempted rape an robbery case. staying in the district homicide detectives are looking for john james for murder. they are on the hunt for william lewis. he is also wanted in a murder case. let's move to arlington county where ariel gonzalez perez wanted for attack on family member. police adding pereira to the wall tonight. set the wall of justice in motion. the spotlight this time around is on ariel gonzalez-perez. take a look at him. the police need your help to find him. the 26-year-old is accused in a domestic violence case and police say he began hitting his wife. he wasn't happy with breakfast. >> particularly concerned about this because he assaulted the mother of the children. the argument started over his unhappiness with the way she prepared breakfast. >> he is 5'6" weighs 160 pounds 26 years old with black hair and brown eye and wanted for assault and battery of a family member. police want him off the wall of justice and put him behind bars. if yo