there was a settlement conference in the lawsuit involving pelican bay. talk about that. >> 38th day of the hunger strike. 98 inmates have not been eating for 38 days. that's pretty far in. much longer than the last hunger strike in 2011. parallel with the hunger strike is the federal lawsuit focusing on pelican bay, focusing on conditions there. curriculuming that these conditions are unconstitutional. there have been settlement talks order by the federal judge in the case. there seems to be some progress, there perhaps not a break through, but the feeling is that if there's a settlement between the inmates and their lawyers and the state on the federal lawsuits that might get thinger strike lead towers call off the protest. >> some of the prisoners involved are some very bad guys. we know that. and what have they accomplished when it comes to changing public opinion? has public opinion, you know, is the public on their side? >> they're some really bad actors among some of these. >> we're talking rapists, murderers. >> pelican bay, the units that are in

be sending a flamboyant homosexual, is pelican bay. >> adolph green was on the pelican bay yard when our producer noticed him and asked for an impromptu interview. >> i'm a flamboyant homosexual. and we call each other girls. you understand. some of the dudes call you girl, call me girl this and that. then you have those that smile in your face and laugh at you behind your back. you walk around the track, somebody say look at that punk, that [ bleep ], a bunch of disrespect day in and day out. >> green told us that those who are open about their sexuality face retribution from inmates. >> you have people that are undercover. you have people that are hiding in the closet. that are doing each other. but the minute they see somebody that is flamboyant that's out they don't understand then they have something against that. and they go through their every day, every day, a bunch of people telling you what you can, and can't do, who you can live with and can't live with, it's wrong. half of the ones who are telling you not to do it are doing it in the closet. >> in this environment sexual

i did hear earlier on where they describe pelican bay is having -- where this is new as they reported to go see. they're taken in to another cell for that out side activity and taken there alone. and so very few men are double bumped and for the most part they are single celled. >> what kind of changes -- is it effected experience. >> my son. he does study. we are able to send him correspondence courses to continue his education. there are thousands of prisoners who do not have this. even with this opportunity that he has, he had in letters saying that he had to no doubts placed suicide. >> i don't mean to be harsh, but your son was convicted for murder and what do you say to the people who murder people need to be separated and many from general prison population and from the guards for everybody's safety? >> well, first oh of all, i'd like to say that anyone who has been a victim of crime. i don't mean to disregard their pain. i don't want to disregard anyone suffering. i think that's the hardest part about being involved. advocacy is remembering the victim and remembering what some

i think that's what pelican bay is about. only the strongest are the ones that are going to make it, you know. >> while leon refuses to disavow loyalty to his gang, the prison sees a slow but steady flow of inmates who do through a process called debriefing. they not only break the code, they smash it to bits. >> it's basically when existing gang members want to get out of a gang inside a prison. and in order to do that, there's a whole debriefing process they have to go through. and it basically entails the inmate coming in and confessing everything's he's done with the gang and sometimes even, you know, throwing some people under the bus and confessing against other people. so it's really a deadly thing for someone to do inside a prison. >> when inmates debrief, they must write a lengthy account of their criminal history both in and out of prison. the review process can take months. but if accepted, the inmates will be allowed to live in the safety of a protective custody unit and be granted many more privileges than they w

our media partners on stain tained exclusive individual skpro granted rare access to pelican bay staterison near crescent city where inmates spent years locked up in the cells. >> pelican bay state prison was designed to hold dangerous inmates. insifd a bunker like unit, hundreds of men have been held in isolation for more than a decade. for five years, peter spent 22.5 hours a day alone in the cell. >> we're not allowed a cup or a bowl. we're not allowed phone calls. i haven't seen my family since i've been busted. >> he is serving 25 years to life for attempted murder. officials say he was separated from the rest of the prison population because an informant identified him as a member of a violent prison gang. the mexican mafia. >> i'm not here for violence or discipline. i'm here because a man decided to use me as his way out. i might have a few tattoos this, is prison. i was never able to confront those who confined me here. it's hearsay. >> a lawsuit filed last year but a coalition of groups alleges inmates are held in is slaigs based on slimmest evidence. tattoos, greeting cards

. >>> pelican bay state prison was designed to hold the most dangerous inmates.like high security unit, hundreds of men have been held in isolation for more than a decade. peter has spent 22 and a half hours a day lb in a small cell. >> we're not allowed a cup, a bowl, a phone calls. >> i haven't seen my family. >> he is serving 25 years to life for attempted murder. prison officials say he was separated from the rest of the prison population because an informant identified him as a member of a violent prison gang, i'm not here for discipline because a man decided to use me as his way out. i was never able to confronted those that confronted me. >> a federal lawsuit filed by a coalition of groups a.m.s that inmates are held in isolation on slim-e of evidence. this suit alleges that the use of solitary confinement causes psychological damage violating a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. department of corrections disputes that. >> pelican bay ward eastbound rejects the charges. >> it's my position and always has been my position these men are trea

our media partners on stain tained exclusive individual skpro granted rare access to pelican bay staterison near crescent city where inmates spent years locked up in the cells. >> pelican bay state prison was designed to hold dangerous inmates. insifd a bunker like unit, hundreds of men have been held in isolation for more than a decade. for five years, peter spent 22.5 hours a day alone in the cell. >> we're not allowed a cup or a bowl. we're not allowed phone calls. i haven't seen my family since i've been busted. >> he is serving 25 years to life for attempted murder. officials say he was separated from the rest of the prison population because an informant identified him as a member of a violent prison gang. the mexican mafia. >> i'm not here for violence or discipline. i'm here because a man decided to use me as his way out. i might have a few tattoos this, is prison. i was never able to confront those who confined me here. it's hearsay. >> a lawsuit filed last year but a coalition of groups alleges inmates are held in is slaigs based on slimmest evidence. tattoos, greeting cards

las investigaciones de las pandillas, es acusado de comandar la pandilla en la prision estatal de pelican bayo de manera vluntaria, recibirán 200 dólares por rifle, es mañana jueves entre las 3 de la tarde y 8 de la noche en las calles cap y 22 en san francisco. >> la compañía toyota está lamando a revisión a 42 mil camionetas, se trata de las tacomas del 2102 al 2014 si esa puerta se cierra con fuerza en varias ocasiones puede tener una falla. >> miles van a comprar la lotería con la esperanza de ganar los 400 millones de dólares , será el tercero más grande en el años, los residentes del estado includo california y nuestra zona suea con pegarle al gorod. >> a lo mejor tenemos suerte de ganar. >> como la semana pasada no hubo ganador la suma se fue acumulando para los números de esta noche. >> a qué hora termina el noticiero. >> a las 6 y media. >> entonces todavía me queda un ratito. >> qué harias con ddinero. >> no sé, pero a la persona que le compre el boleto le doy el 10%. >> los tacones son amigos y enemigos de las mujeres, sin embargo pueden causar espolonbesm juanetes, afectan rodilla

. >> at pelican bay, we saw the definitive guide to distilling white lightning, a hand drawn illustration confiscated in a cell search. >> i found that in an inmate's cell. it explained to the people on the tier how to manufacture one, you know, pure alcohol. but they're actually making 150 proof. that's not your regular pruno. a little more sophisticated. >> this is the final result. this here is about the equivalent of grain alcohol. extremely potent. >> how does this taste? >> white lightning tastes exactly like whiskey without any cut. some guys in prison will cut it with, say, something like kool-aid or something because it's too strong. then you have other guys that just down it just raw. and a lot of these dudes that make this stuff, they don't realize that the bacteria in the stuff they're drinking doesn't do anything but give them tuberculosis and other diseases because it is nothing but rotten food that it's made from. >> since drunken inmates can lead to big trouble, correctional officers are constantly on the lookout. >> they're out there searching. they'll find it. three days

they happen in cells, but ut individuals locked in those cells in pelican bay, if allowed interactionith other people would create a higher murder rate. rather than killing themselves, they kill other people, and that is why they're isolated from other people. >> exhume, if i could say something really quick, what would you say to the most recent example. mr. aguilar spent 17 years in solitary confinement in pelican state bay prison, and he qualified for release under 36, where the judge subpoenaed them, to show why they have had him in there for 17 years, and it's on video where the judge says, i cannot find anything to keep this man in custody. they are not, they are in a cement cell, and it's not rational, it's a windowless cell with holes, and they don't have the dime sized holes, that's just a metal door, and if you would like to refer to dr. patterson's 354 report on the suicides that have taken place in california prisons while being held in solitary confinement. >> they're certainly at a higher rate than people who are not. but we have questions coming in from viewers, and i w

while he was in prison at a secure housing unit at pelican bay state prison he spent 22 1/2 hours inl each day and was only allowed 90 minutes outside of his cell which he would spend alone in a concrete, windowless pen. steven joins me now from berkeley, california. my first question is, how did you end up in prison in the first place? >> breaking the law. stealing cars. just -- basically delinquent. >> when you were in prison, how did you go from being in general population, what was the thing that triggered going from general population to being placed in solitary confinement? >> well, for years up until just before going into solitary confinement, i was a model prisoner. i worked as a teacher's assistant teaching other inmates how to do office work. just before i was set to parole, i got in a fight with another inmate. and while on my way to my cell, i spit on one of the officers. and they gave me four years in security housing unit for that. >> wait a second, you got four years in solitary for spitting? >> yeah, for spitting on an officer. and they gave me -- they tried to give

. >> she says her husband spent eight years in pelican bay. she says prolonged isolation makes it almost impossible. and after the release, the husband was convicted of murder. he's now on death row. >>> another protest led to the arrest of more than 200 people in the city of richmond's biggest employer demonstration marked the upcoming anniversary of the richmond refinery. >>> march through richmond from the bart station to the chevron refinery, three days from the -- >> and make sure nothing ever happens about climate change. today, it's the day about putting chevron on notice. >> climate activists, many holding sun -- flowers, demanded that chevron make the changes. >> our mission needs to be reduced. >> the police say the crowd may be over 2000. >> organizers asked volunteers to risk arrest. >> we cannot allow trespassers. that begins to cross align to other behaviors that could be more dangerous. >> cheers erupted as police began at 1:30. >> included nine yearly hail lep small. >> get out of the crisis we're in. >> the grandson followed s

. >> reporter: the hunger strike is focused at prisons like pelican bay.ne's husband is one of the strikers. >> what he had said to me, of course nobody wants to die, but living in that cement tomb for all of these years, they are already dead. so what options do they have left? >> reporter: inmates put into solitary confinement can sometimes stay there for years on end. earnest sheperd served a 45-year sentence for murder, more than half of it in isolation. >> most of the people that i was with didn't make it. most of my peers didn't make it. you know? so i have to be here. >> reporter: this is the longest prison hunger strike in the state's history. lasting twice as long as a similar protest in 2011. jennifer london, al jazeera, los angeles. >>> jcpenney is still hemorrhaging money. ali velshi is here with that story for us. a business that has been dwen ling for years, and so they decided to bring in ron johnson. the problem is jcpenney isn't apple.k to their baseline and then try to grow and compete. >> are there any signs of a tur serious pessimistics

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. >> designed to look and function like pelican bay, a maximum security prison in california, the shu is composed of windowless, concrete cells measuring 7 by 12 feet. of the 288 inmates housed here, 179 have been diagnosed by psychiatric staff as mentally ill. >> i heard the horror stories of this place back when it first opened up. >> sergeant dan haskins is a veteran of the secure housing unit. >> out of sight, out of mind. the outside world, out of sight, out of mind. they don't -- probably don't want to know what goes on in here. >> the population of the shu lives on 23-hour lockdown. leaving their cells only for showers and solitary recreation. >> some people will tell you that segregation unit is not the place for people with mental illness because we didn't design that particular unit for treatment. particularly for mental health treatment. we just didn't anticipate us having the numbers we have and going the way it's gone. >> although acute cases are referred to the psychiatric unit at a neighboring correctional institution, the staff in the shu deal with a variety of mental

. >> he spent eight years in solitary confinement in pelican's bay. they have a hard time transitioning to normal life. after her husband was released. he was convicted of murder. he is now on death row. >>> time now is 7:21. a boy's gift to a police dog could go a long way. the gift he made that is inspiring others. >> already creating a fashion frenzy. this may have crashed a website twice. >>> minor cool down is in store for your sunday afternoon. i will have what you can expect for your area, coming up. ñsxóxgñ . >>> a dog was presented with a bulletproof vest. he was inspired to donate all of his money. one hundred dollars after seeing a story right here on ktvu about the pet food express. his handler. police officer brad young is grateful to buchanan for keeping him protected. >> they are used to do the dangerous stuff. they are finding the bad guys and they are the ones who are more likely get injured. >> he received his new vest at a competition in alameda. the fundraiser was so successful it can provide other vests to other k-9 teams: >> i lo

. >>> the inmates on the hunger strike are upset about conditions at cocoa rin and pelican bay prisonsd eating july 8th. the state head of the prisons department said he will not negotiate with the advocates but has promised to discuss prison condition. >>> a statewide investigation of tax payer funded reb centers has been ordered all because of reports of fraud. the announcement comes after the center for investigative reporting and cnn reported that some clinics have been billing the state for patients who don't show up for treatment or don't have a substance abuse problem. reportedly 94 million was paid to 56 clinics in southern california where there's evidence of improper billing. officials were checking allegations that the centers hired employees who previously have been convicted of neglecting a patient or committing fraud. >>> 9,000 people have now signed an online petition supporting a teacher in southern california. ken bencomo says he was fired because he married his gay partner last month. that marriage came after the u.s. supreme court cleared the way for the same-sex mar