we will see what happens. >> why should the parole board give him another chance to finish these lastths he has left on parole? >> he got out, and he went to work, first time that i know he had a good job. they let him open the cafe, let him use the cash register, and more or less was like a general manager of the place. if he stumbled again, they put him back in. give him a chance to stumble. >> the way he defended me today it showed me that i guess he is on good terms with me now. which i was surprised. thank you for having me. >> thank you, thank you very much. >> i'm very happy that my mother didn't get invited in. i'm glad that when her boyfriend was in there they didn't speak about my violations. >> all right, sir. >> i hope everything goes well for you. >> while many things broke his way during the parole hearing. the end result is not what orosco hoped for. >> what the parole office recommended isf. >> rather than reinstate the parole, the board decided to send him to a halfway house that provides drug counseling to parole violators for six months to one year. the hearing did

>> because i'm scared of getting out. >> you went before parole board before? >> yes. cked up for so long that i'm conditioned to this environment. >> if you didn't want to make parole, can you say i don't want to go? >> i feel like i would be ostracized. other convicts are hoping for any kind of release. it's normal. >> is that it? >> yes, sir. >> guilty of the charge. of refusal, attempt to alter a drug screen. recommend five days. assess a fee of $25. court order fine. recommend a job drop. do you want to fill this in? >> yes. >> i don't feel the $25 is appropriate. >> i can suspend that. i will suspend the $25. >> and richie would like a little time to get his affairs in order before he has to go away for five days. >> no. >> one of "ziggy's" punishments is to spend five days in the hole. >> please direct all my mail over to me. i won't be granted parole in april and that's mission accomplished. so i have to accept the consequences of what he said. >> be advised, number one inmate from unit six to unit three through the access road. >> i haven't used a phone in i'd

. >> william earl basset will soon face the parole board for yet another chance at freedom. >>> whenwe come back, we'll follow one rare and fortunate stateville inmate as he spends his final hours in prison preparing to return to his life on the outside. >> one free man walking. >> that's next on "lockup." >>> between sports and the right person, you know, looking up to the right people at the right time, you know, and by the grace of god, you know what i'm saying, i didn't wind up on that side of the wall, you know. >> be strong in the lord. now, how do you get strong in the lord unless you get in the book? >> a famous saying originating in world war ii claims there's no atheists in fox holes. there are plenty in prison, but many inmates find solace or escape in god. >> i'm a new creature in christ jesus. behold all things are new. i'm righteous created in christ jesus. >> you got to know who you are. god is your company no other man in this world can ever give you. he's our father. he created us. in here it's really rough, brother, he helps us day to day to cope with our problems.

by the time i see the parole board, i'll probably be dead. as it is, i'm facing probably 60 to 80 years if they stack on maximum sentences on every one of my new charges so that's pretty much double life what i'm doing. >> i never think about the outside world anymore, never, ever. i'm 100% prison. i'm 100%. this is my life. prison's my life. and this is all i got, and that's all i think about. >> by design, kentucky state penitentiary is a place to serve hard time. while many newer facilities have the distinction of being tougher prisons, kentucky's most violent inmates are still sent to the castle on the cumberland. that's our report. thanks for watching. i'm john seigenthaler. from nbc washington, the world's longest-running television program, this is "meet the press" with david gregory. >> given the unique power of the state, it is not enough for leaders to say trust us, we won't abuse the data we collect. for history has too many examples when that trust has been breached. >> good sunday major. no matter what you think of edward snowden

. >> although cindy won't see the parole board for another seven years, she has made things right withchildren. >> my girls are older now. they can drive up and see me. my youngest son, now 9 years old. i just talked to him yesterday on the phone. he's just doing really good. i have a good relationship. even though it's over the phone, just because i'm sober. >> like cindy, many of usp's female inmates struggle with cycles of abuse that stem from destructive relationships with men. due to overcrowding issues, usp is forced to house men in the timpanogos star-1 unit, side by side with women's housing. >> it would definitely make it easier if there wasn't men. it would help the women focus more on what they need to focus on. >> the prison goes to great lengths to reduce contact between the men and women, ensuring that they are never in any adjacent yard areas at the same time. and covering windows to prevent them from seeing into each other's housing units. nevertheless, the two genders have devised other ways of keeping in touch. >> what i was just doing was signing. and that's how we c

in april of 2012, he lost his first parole bid, and his next possible parole board hearing won't be untilr this edition of 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm morley safer. thank you for watching. [ticking] [ticking] >> madoff. it is a name that will live in infamy. it's a tough name to live with. >> it sure is. >> in the first interview since bernie madoff's arrest, his wife ruth... >> i trusted him. >> and son andrew... >> that's who i am. my name is madoff. and i'll live with that for the rest of my life. >> speak out about crime, guilt, suicide... >> mr. madoff, what do you have to say for yourself? >> and the day bernie admitted to committing the largest financial fraud in history. >> and he said, "i have a confession to make. i've been running a ponzi scheme." [ticking]

. >> if i didn't have my daughter, i would tell that parole board let me stay here and not even get outhere at all. i always thought man, if i could just revoke, and if it wasn't for raven because i don't want to break her heart, i would stay here and they can kiss my ass. honestly, that's how i feel. >> reporter: finally, ray's release date arrived. we decided to follow him from prison to home. >> it was actually kind of fun to watch ray because he was so excited about being set free and he was trying really quickly to adapt, and he got to use his cell phone for the first time in a long time. >> i have a phone! hey, raymond. >> when they actually took a picture of him with the cell phone, he was horrified at his image. but it was fascinating because you think of somebody who comes from this very deprived world suddenly being thrust into a world of so much technology. he was just like a little kid. >> even more so when ray and his family stopped at a convenience store for snacks. >> this is new. i've never even one of these before. definitely one of these. i've had it before. everything

. >> ray, from day one, regretted his guilty plea, as he explained to the parole board in 1997. >> everyonelosest aides and friends had voiced doubts about the case both then -- >> i think the government rushed to judgment. >> i've always felt that james earl ray didn't act alone. >> and now. >> i don't think james earl ray acted. >> you don't think he pulled the trigger? >> i don't think he was anywhere near. >> william pepper first met james earl ray in 1978 when he went to visit him in prison. pepper came away from that meeting certain of one thing. >> it was pretty clear that he was not the shooter. >> had there not been a guilty plea, there might have been two huge holes in the prosecutor's case. first, ballistics experts could not match this bullet, which killed dr. king, with the rifle ray bought. the bullet was badly mangled upon impact and the markings made by the rifle barrel when the gun was fired fell short of scientific certainty. second, two men living in the boardinghouse could not identify the man they saw running from the bathroom after the sound of the shot. he held a hand

board. met life is near water so parole boats, a few miles from new york city.ommand post build near the staidio -- studio. they will monitor everything from road and weather condition to raidation -- radiation levels. >> they are focused on the security. we are confident. i don't think there is jitters. we want everything prepared. >> reporter: police will have to dress warm with temperatures expected to drop to the single digits this week and another concern is not getting people inside on a rainy, snowy super bowl sunday, it is handling a mass exodus of ticket holders. fox news. >>> and we are going to over time. >> the seahawks heading to over time. >> the super bowl simulation of sunday's game and it is a barn burner. the contest hends into over time where peyton manning -- heads into over time where peyton manning gets a goal winning field goal. and you can watch the real thing right here on ktvu channel 2 news. kickoff is at 3:30 p.m. this sunday. tomorrow i am heading to new jersey for the big game. i will have live reports starting wednesday night. and

paroling e proposing around labor rules and enforcement of the minimum wage and collecting the parking fees so we can be fully committee that the rules are being addressed and in with the san francisco full board of supervisors. i'll ask for your support if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them and if i can't mr. powers will >> any commissioner questions. >> commissioner dwight. >> on what basis was the parking sector 1i7b8d out. >> the parking in this industry there are a lot legislation that dealings deals with the industries that we know the parking destroy and most of the operators comply with the law but there's been a certain portion of parking lot operator that have been a fly-by night not complying with the rules and there's a demonstrated history of the minority parking lot operators ignoring city rules. in terms of the most significant issue is for the employees to not go up on the wage scale. we've not heard about other industries >> that's around employment practices. >> although those practices can spill over into - this is about parking lot operators that are meeting the need of san francisco we require they have a permit and they're much more regulated than other

parole. >> i worked my points down through the years after coming into a level 2 facility, and i've been to the board7 one-year denials. i've been disciplinary-free for 19 years, and in memory of the victim -- and there's nothing i can do to take back what i've caused, all i can do is change who i am and all i can do is serve, serve mankind, serve humanity, any way possible to make up for what i did. ♪ ♪ lord i am tired of being lord ♪ >> i tell you one thing about san quentin, we got flavor here. we got flavor. >> programs like the annual poetry slam provide inmates a creative release, helping them to avoid potential disciplinary write-ups and longer sentences. ♪ nobody scrap we rob to the high ♪ ♪ now i fall to my knees and raise my hands to the sky note ♪ i used to live by the scrap would rob to get high ♪ ♪ now i fall to my knees raise my hands to the sky ♪ ♪ it's like i'm buried alive ♪ it's like i'm buried alive alive alive alive alive alive alive alive ♪ >> this is the san quentin poetry slam here sponsored by patton college university. and i believe this is the fifth. this is the first time i