>> i came from state anamosa penitentiary. due to an inmate causing some problems.me of throwing -- >> hang on. hang on. >> as our cameras roll, fickling's new neighbors continually attempt to disrupt the interview. >> i'm scared to death where i'm at because i don't know what's going to happen. you know. supposedly they say this is the worst penitentiary in iowa. >> but as we learned later, fickling's new neighbors have equal cause to be wary of him. >> the reason i'm mainly in lockup is because i got in a fight. that was my original thing while i was in ft. dodge. i assaulted an officer with urine and feces. >> i don't want to sound ignorant. how do you use your bodily fluids and throw it on somebody? >> i mean -- i used a cup. i mean, there's crazier inmates. they'll put [ bleep ] in their hand and throw it at you. i mean, you got inmates that will smear it on the walls and write graffiti. it just depends on what your mind frame is. that's not me. you know. i don't do that kind of thing, because, i mean, that shows like a little kid, you know, a little kid playin

. >> here, it's colorado state penitentiary.me estrada is in for murder, a crime he committed after being released from his first prison term. >> in here, you take things a lot more serious. somebody calls you a punk, somebody calls you a bitch, someone says i'm going to kill you, in here that means, you know, you hold people to that word -- to them words, man. when i got out and guys were saying that about me, i'm going to kill john, i'm going to do this to him. the first thing in my mind is i better go kill him before he getsmy, you know, even though he was probably just talking out of his ass. he didn't understand the type of person i am and where i've been and the thought process i've learned in here. and he's dead now for it. it's kind of like a kill or be killed. >> estrada's prison education started early. >> how old were you when you were first arrested? >> about 13 or 14. >> what did you do? >> stealing a stereo out of a car. that's how it all began. start out stealing bubble gum at the stores all the way to snatching p

the walls of spring creek, natural beauty gives way to the harsh reality of a maximum security penitentiary. >> we're at the end of the road for the state of alaska department of corrections the worst behaved prisoners end up here. >> those who pose the greatest threat to other inmates and staff are segregated in house one, the lockdown unit. >> basically, minimum rights. minimum, they're in their cells for 23 hours a day. >> on the day we wanted to interview him, house one inmate, antonio robertson was in an especially foul mood. >> [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> calm down. >> every one of you [ bleep ], [ bleep ], i'm going to start with, you guyed are [ bleep ]. we need more. what do you want to know? >> robertson, serving a 60-year sentence for murder has spent most of the last two years in house one. >> why are you in here? >> in house one. it's a long story. i've been assaulted and i assault people back, okay? i refuse to let myself be assaulted and not fight back. >> robertson not only fights with other inmates. he fights with staff as well. >> i was disrespected. i decided to m

>> no, i ain't going back to the penitentiary. i'm ready to get out.'t never going back. >> it's even worse there. >> yeah. strip-searched, you know. i know all of it, the strip-searching, bending over, coughing, squatting, all of that, but they don't do that. they definitely don't put their hands right here in the crease like that. they tell you, get naked, bend over, squat, cough, you know? >> all right, well, but you're not going to help yourself if you caused a problem here, you know what i'm saying? you just could have made your problem worse. >> while powell might be considered a problem inmate, those enrolled in enough is enough, the jail's antidrug program, are held to a higher standard. >> part of recovery is that you've got to help somebody else. you have to help someone else. >> after near lifelong addictions that have kept them both coming in and out of jail, john carroll and joe smithsson were recently accepted into the program. >> one of the things i shared with them is the hardest part of the program, is for them to hold each other accou

>> this is the maximum security facility on level vi for the penitentiary of new mexico. housing unit three pretty much houses the worst of the worst. these individuals are the worst of the worst within level vi and level vi is the worst within the whole state of new mexico. >> [ bleep ]. >> [ bleep ]. >> [ bleep ]. >> these individuals are housed, one per cell. they're escorted and restrained everywhere they go. in handcuffs or leg irons and belly chains. we do have two and three-man status individuals that are very violent. and they like to assault our staff. >> today we tag along with deputy warden joni brown on her way to deal with one of level vi's most notorious inmates. >> they have an inmate who is refusing to leave his cell. at this point they're going to go in and give him a directive to cuff up and come out. if not, then we're planning the use of force for cell extraction. >> turn around and be restrained. >> no. >> if you don't turn around and be restrained we'll have to forcibly remove you from your cell. are you going to come out? >> what's going to happen n

>> we met murray at iowa state penitentiary serving ten years for stealing cars.e spent the last two years as cell house 220 also known as the hole. >> this is your maximum security unit inside of a maximum security prison. here's where we house all the inmates that couldn't be handled at another institution or couldn't be handled in our general population area. now we have to deal with them over here. >> during his time in prison and especially in the hole, murray has found a coping device in self-mutilation. >> i've been in here so long it kind of releases stress. >> how do you cut yourself? >> i was on razors but they put me on razor restriction and i find stuff in here, staples, plastic from deodorants and stuff like that. >> when was the last time you cut yourself? >> about two weeks ago. >> the next day on their way to another interview in cell house 220, our crew ran into murray as correctional officers were moving him into a holding area so that they could inspect his cell. >> can you tell us what is going on? >> we are taking him out to shake down his cel

that's part of what they call penitentiary rules.u take care of the man, the man lay back, that's all he has to do. he doesn't even have to brush his teeth. he just smiles, i brush his teeth for him. >> what about women's lib? you know, women are liberated now. >> right. they are. >> women don't have to wait on their husbands anymore. how do you feel about that? >> i choose to. i choose to. >> housework isn't the only way in which prison marriage is less than a union of equals. as precious explains in this graphic never-before-seen interview footage -- >> if there is any sexual activity taking place, he is the man. you know, he is the surrogate all the time. i'm always the recipient of whatever it is. it doesn't matter if it's oral or anal or however you want to look at it. because he's my husband. he's the man. i can never penetrate him or get no oral sex or anything like that from him. if i choose to, you know, go and release myself, then i have to go get me a girl to go do it with. >> our producer then questioned whether the relat

>> kenneth morgan, also known as peaches, was one of the more memorable inmates we met at the penitentiarymexico. his life in prison is marked by a clear duality. >> hi, boys! >> he was an open, if not flamboyantly gay inmate living in general population. but when it came to adhering to the inmates code of conduct, he made it clear that he was no different than anyone else. during our shoot he had received one of his rare disciplinary write-ups for helping cover up a bloody fight between two other inmates. >> right here, this is peaches. looks like he's got the shirt that was taken from the inmate. looks like he was rubbing the floor right here. so that's one of my biggest issues right there. i want to show you the video. okay? so get over here. who is this? >> that's me? >> and what does it appear that you're doing right there? >> kicking the shirt. >> not cleaning up blood. or nothing like that? >> i just kicked it up. that's all i did. >> why would you do that? >> because i was actually way over here by my cubicle and i kicked it all the way around giving it to them, telling them to dea

. >>> at kentucky state penitentiary, some inmates can apprentice in an auto body shop. at rikers island jail, a bakery churns out nearly 90,000 loaves of bread per week while teaching inmates how to bake. in many of the prisons profiled on "lockup," inmates have opportunities to learn skills that can help them find work on the outside. but all too many spend their time honing skills more suitable to mayhem and murder. >> i stabbed an inmate 12 times over some dope in front of the chow hall. >> i took a knife and stabbed him with it three or four times until he was dead. and then i butchered him with it. >> you find a piece of metal or something, file it down on the concrete. it ain't got to be sharp, it's just got to have a point. put your handle on it and do what you need to do. >> "lockup" crews are regularly exposed to the tools of a deadly trade. >> every prison we film in, there's always a shank museum, a place where the authorities display all of the weapons that are confiscated by staff. homemade weapons the inmates have made from bed springs or melted down plast

. >> the penitentiary still running.wants to put his shoesight people, and it wasn't even his problem. but they was in the penitentiary to you know how to goes. everything, when it comes to a friend, but when it comes to the program, he was just telling everybody what they want to hear i ain't dogging him. i'm not saying something i wouldn't say to him. it's an accountability progr snitches, it's about helping each other out. he expecrespects each other. >> smithson will continue on in enough is enough, and now it's move on to the next phase of her life. >> i'm getting release time for me to go home. i'm very nervous. i want to go outside. i need the air. >> what's the first thin outside? >> fire up a cigarette. just to be completely honest. >> though van winkle has been addicted to drugs most of her to participate in the jail's rehab progmse hopes to stay clean on her own this time, but that has not okay. i'll see y'all later. i this is lovely.

. >>> nestled at the base of the rocky mountains, colorado state penitentiary was built to house the state's most violent and disruptive inmates. it gives new meaning to the words hard time. >> we decided that csp could not be a place where inmates could get comfortable and make a life for themselves. we had to treat them differently. >> colorado state isn't just any maximum security prison. it's a super max facility. inmates here are considered a constant threat and are confined to single-person cells 23 hours a day. >> i was astounded by how sterile and stark and what tough time it would be to serve in that particular prison. i think that would be the hardest time possible. >> many of the inmates we spoke to agreed. they say the isolation is too much. >> i've been here a long time. i've seen a lot of guys, seen them snap, you know? any given day they can snap. >> 23 hours a day you're locked down. you come out for five hours a week. essentially it's just another cell. it's a dead room with a pull-up bar. there's one small window. everywhere you go, handcuffed, handcuffed to go in t

. >>> the day we arrived at colorado state penitentiary, a super max prison at the base of the rocky mountains, we found a sterile, rusty environment, steel doors behind which inmates are locked up 23 hours a day, but despite his surroundings, inmate shawn shields was in high spirits. when he sat down with us, he was eager to help our producer get the interview underway. >> quiet on the set, you boneheads. >> then he calmly told us how he got 16 years added to the original sentence of 12 for robbery. >> me and another inmate had an altercation. i manipulated the door so that it would not latch completely, and when he came out to walk, i came down after him, and proceeded to stab him. >> why? >> it was just a verbal altercation. there is a lot of verbal altercations between people. you have to understand there are 16 men living together behind closed doors with stress, animosity towards one another in some cases, and it is not always a pleasant place to be. >> when inmates erupt, no one is safe, including correctional staff. >> we had an inmate that was on his way to the rec yard and

we work together. >> our visit to the anamosa state penitentiary in iowa led us to a memorable pair of siblings michael and brad love whose lifelong allegiance drove them to kill. >> growing up i wanted to be him, you know. he was almost four years older than me. i see him running around drinking. breaking into stuff. doing whatever he is doing. i'm like i want to be like him. that's my big brother. that's my idol. so i kind of followed in the same footsteps. >> but as the love brothers revealed to our crew, those footsteps led down a bloody path that ended at a holiday party in the trailer park. >> christmas night, 1992, me and my brother went to a party with what we thought were friends. but they tried to rob us. take the liquor that we brought. >> they started beating me up. four of them. >> they hurt brad. i couldn't let them get away with that. they threatened his life. and i just couldn't handle that. so we left went to my trailer. i got a shotgun. my brother got a knife. machete. we went back out there and did what we did. >> i remember mike standing there he had the gun pointed

who was with my mama when you went to penitentiary?ith my mama when you went to penitentiary? >> look, i only did this interview because they said you want to do it. i'm saying for real, bro, we ain't got to go through this. >> i ain't give a [ bleep ] about this interview. >> he's trying to make it seem like it's just his -- >> brian sr., he's angry. >> he's supposed to be. i mean, i get frustrated when i think about it because i already know that the majority of the situation got something to do with me not being there. it's hard knowing that he could possibly end up with the death penalty. it's hard to even think about it. i always wanted to be there to help him. but i mean, which is sad to say, i let his mama basically run me away. and for a long time i had a grudge against her because she had another baby. so when i did get out, that's what was really stopping me from any -- you know what i'm saying. even being around him. because of that. and i should never have done it. but i felt like that was the only way for me to get even wi

>> it's my nickname my first time in penitentiary.lf-explanatory. >> narrator: they're also among his most prized possessions. >> i've always been unique, and when i met tattoos, that was my way to be even more unique. i like to stand out. what's up? >> it's my nickname my first time in penitentiary. self-explanatory. >> narrator: they're also among his most prized possessions. >> i've always been unique, when i met tattoos, that was my way to be even more unique. i like to stand out. what's up? i just got self-expression everywhere >> narrator: but voltz says he treasures more than his ink. "i'm daddy's baby." say it loud in prayer. say, "i'm daddy's baby." >> narrator: voltz has 2 sons, a 2-year-old and a 13-year-old, by 2 different women.y in jail for domestic abuse against the mother of his 2-year-old, brian ii, or deuce.you. when i'm free, i take great pride in spending time with my kids. no, daddy's not at the doctor. daddy's locked up. i don't lie to my kids. >> you hear me? i love you. i love you more. even though i've slacked

. >>> the penitentiary of new mexico houses both low-level and maximum security inmates. the most dangerous and notorious are held in level six. >> you want to make me look like the monster. i've been here over 2 1/2 years. i never did nothing. i don't disrespect nobody. i don't cause no problems or nothing, but just because i'm small and able to slip the handcuffs any time i want, i'm a problem. i got locked up when i was about 10 1/2. i got grand theft auto. i've been to probably over 30 prisons. probably around 20 in florida. six or seven in oklahoma. three here. i don't get in trouble. i don't disrespect anybody. cops come to my door. i'm always, yes, sir, no, sir. yes, ma'am, no, ma'am. i don't disrespect nobody. i've made my mistakes and did some stupid stuff when i was young. but hurt somebody to where they went to the hospital and ended up dying later on, you know, but never been charged with murder. a lot of people, like, the first thing they think about me is they think about somebody like mcgyver or something. because i stabbed somebody with some jolly ranchers

another 10,000 inmates, however, cook county remains their home until they get transferred to a penitentiary are set free. >> are you affiliated? you're lying, man. don't lie to me. just keep it real. i'm not going to say anything. i've seen guys grow up, they come in with no hair on their face, they leave, they are grown men now. >> i've been in the system since i was 15. i'm 33 now. it is like a revolving door. >> you recognize them, they recognize you, it is like, what did you do now? >> it is survival here. my goal here is to have a one-inch deck and then i've conquered my job. >> for ciu investigators the cycle of new inmates means their work never ends. the jail represents a key battlefront in chicago law enforcement's war on gangs and drugs. >> the city of chicago supplies us with probably 95% of our population. and chicago has an estimated 100,000 gang members. >> our approach here is that the criminal investigation never ends. you come into cook county jail and you're conducting yourself in a criminal manner, we find out about it, we are going to launch an investigation into your ac

♪ i've been on the lam ♪ >> jimmy torres has plenty of reasons to sing the blues.in a federal penitentiarys he didn't commit. ♪ if you see me coming, baby, i'll be on the lam ♪ >> and the crowd went wild. i was america's most wanted man. thanks. that's the crowd. unfortunately, they're a captured audience. >> torres used to sing in a band on the outside, but he's probably better known for being a prolific bank robber. now he's pursuing a literary career working on his autobiography. >> yeah. it's "the bank robber blues, the tales of the mummy bandit." it's pretty good. i've got a couple guys here. i let them read it, and they are kind of my critics, and they say it's a page-turner. it keeps the reader interested. it doesn't take a genius to figure out how to write when you lay it down. if they can do it, i can do it. i'm working on it. i'm just getting warmed up. i have a lot more to go. i'm like in 1985 right now. >> but for now torres puts his book aside to help out his cellmate ryan abbey. >> basically what you want to tell them is that you need help, buddy, okay? >> yeah. >> you've got

and you know, the fact that he did resign was penitentiary because of the fact -- >> greta: he got caught -- >> let me say why i think it's important. he was a very competent, qualified person. it's very upsetting for he, his family and his wife, especially, what is going on. but it can't be about one individual. and if in fact, he decided to stay or the president would not have accepted his resignation, it's more about him and this would have continued on, not about the mission of the cia, who i feel are as good as anybody in the world and what they do, getting information and protecting our country. >> greta: congressman rohrabacher, you are a friend of my husband. i love you. >> i am glad somebody loves us. >> greta: anyway, thank you. straight ahead, republican lawheadachers ripping into the obama administration. congressman rosh bacher saying is here next. find out how popular restaurants may cover rising health care costs. we don't think you will like this have a good night. re you go. you, too. i'm going to dream about that steak. i'm going to dream about that tiramisu. what a nigh

that was your mama's choice. >> who was with my mama when you were in the penitentiary. >> listen, i only did this interview because you said you want to do it. >> i don't give a [ bleep ] about you. >> he's trying to make it one-sided it. >> i told him i don't even blame you. >> brian sr., he's angry. >> he's supposed to be. i mean i get frustrated when i think about it because i already know the majority of the situation has got something to do with me not being there, and it's hard knowing he could possibly end up with the death penalty. it's hard to even think about it. i always wanted to be there to help him, but i mean, whcih is sad to say, i let his mama basically run me away. and for a long time, i had a grudge against her because she had another baby. that stopped me from being around him because of that and i should have never done it, but i felt like that was the only way for me to get even with her. and when i got out and he was calling him daddy, that was real touching. >> did you blame me for that? >> no, i blamed your mama. i mean i'm sorry that i was never a father fi

>> i used to honestly feel my stomach coming up maybe a couple hundred guys off to the penitentiary every. even if it wasn't just necessarily being black people, mexican body, just anybody. to see that, it was disturbing. how did the numbers get that high, you know? >> our plan of attack is to hit the south jets first. we have gotten plenty of guns out of there as everybody knows and a lot of drugs. going to housing authority. mange sure everybody has police markings on. watch your background and stay with your partners, all right? any questions? okay. let's go. >> there's certain areas of suburbs more so than others we hit with regularity. frankly, it's where the action is. i used to be a prosecutor before i became sheriff. we tried a lot of cases out here. unfortunately, these problems have been going on since the late '80s. >> you see neighborhoods that never change. that are as compromised as ever with limited opportunities for the kids to grow up here. if you walk to the door of one of these buildings every day they head off to school and you see this activity, what do you think you'

he's been in the penitentiary all my life, anyways, so it doesn't phase me. >> so you are following in your father's footsteps? >> i don't even know him to follow in his footsteps. i get offended when people say that. i've got to know him to know who he is. i was already out running around the projects. i don't deal with him, at all. i don't deal with him. it's too late to turn back. ain't nothing he can do to change my circumstance, you know, but stay the hell out of my face. i take total responsibility for anything i do. i'm never going to sit here and say, ah, if my daddy would have raised me different, because it is what it is. i'll take responsibility for any position that i put myself in. i feel like in order for me to better myself, i've got to look at it as, it's my fault. and i feel like that's what's going to help me develop me into a man. not just no man by age, but a man mentally. >> coming up -- >> for real, bro, i really don't have to go through this. >> i don't give a [ bleep ] about you. >> the edmonds struggle to reconcile the past in what could be the final meeting of

but if you look at california penitentiary's, they get so overcrowded that we're the gymnasiums are used for bed space stacked three high. there are scenes in my movie where it is a sea beds. it looks like a slave ship. that is a threat to the guards. you cannot have safety for your guards if they have to navigate a room full of a thousand men who represent an and checked situation. it is not usual suchard practices. so you see the need to fix a situation like that that is both inhumane and dysfunctional. people have to watch california very carefully. the issues continue here. as a get rid of people from the larger prison system in this state, it does not like those people will go to some desert island and have a daiquiri for the rest of their lives. there are often shifted to county jails, places that don't have a gym, don't have outdoor spe noe, built for long- term residence. so there is a shell game that is going on the people have to be wary of how that prison liberation is happening because it may be out of the frying pan and into the fire. tavis: i am fascinated by the way this f

>> it's my nickname my first time in penitentiary.ng st prized possessions. >> i've always been unique, and when i met tattoos, that was myb way to be even more unique. what's up? everywhere. >> narrator: but voltz says he treasures more than his ink. "i'm daddy's baby." say it loud and proud. say, "i'm daddy's baby." 2-year-old and a 13-year-old, by 2 different women. he is currently in jail for domestic abuse against the mother of his 2-year-old, brian ii, or deuce.s you. when i'm fre i take great pride in spending time with my kids.ú cked up.y's not at the doctor. i don't lie to my kids.me? i love you more. even though i've slacked and i'd be less of a man to not admit in my neglectful states, i was always a great father. say a-b-c-d-f-g h-i-j-k-l-m-n-o-p i'll be damned if i let them grow up without a father like i did.ho my daddy io if i was to ever mt 'd probably hit him in his mouth.m >> he got one called "my money iny pocket." my money my pocket money in my pocket >> narrator: while voltz strives to be a father to his childre

there is someone sitting in a federal penitentiary today with a 55-year sentence for selling marijuanaree occasions because the informant said there was a gun around. so a gun enhancement, mandatory gun enhancement from the judge that entered the sentence said it was an outrage. it was unjust. but 55 years. this is the kind of human toll in this country. we don't just need to legalize marijuana, we need to end drug prohibition, just like we ended alcohol prohibition and treat drug use and abuse as a public health and education issue and get it entirely out of the criminal justice system. [cheers and applause] we have the highest incarceration rate. we have 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prison population. we have more people in prison and in jails in this country on drug offenses than western europe has in their prisons and jails on all offenses. this has to end. we the american people need to come together, right, left, it doesn't matter about partisanship. we need to demand immediately an end to this insane war on drugs. [applause] >> virgil goode. >> i am an adv

tonight is our final penitentiary. welcome back to you both. duf are you ready to say uncle?u know what, i didn't find the fact that you called the fact that your father your favorite republican, but when you put christie ahead of me it hurt my feelings. >> jennifer: all right. epic fail on my part. >> here you can have the halloween candy. okay. chris christie had a beautiful moment today. not only did barack obama look very presidential but chris christie took a tentative step towards 2016. >> jennifer: yeah, let's just say that duf could have a beautiful moment right here. >> i think that was back in april 15th that you were right. >> jennifer: let me do something here, duf. vice president biden had a very interesting line about mitt romney today. take a listen in florida. >> his plans are sketchy, they are etch-a-sketchy. that's what it is all about, man. they told us this was coming. >> jennifer: duf before i get your reaction to this. i want to play a clip from the very first time the two of you were on this show on march 21st. >> so what do you think, etch-a-sketch --

. >> two ways out, dead or alive. 90 miles from new orleans lies louisiana state penitentiary. commonly referred to as angola. it's the largest prison in america. started as a slave plantation and taken over by the state in 190 is, this land has seen more than its share of pain. it was once considered the bloodiest prison in america and the current population of 1,048 men it's estimated that 98% of them will die here yet things have are changed drastically and much credit goes to the warden. >> >> if we can save one person from being a victim of violent. it's to correct bad behavior and do that in a way that you can and the root way to do that is morality. moral people obviously don't steal. >> right here i have seen change because of god in your life. >> warden cain works on two levels, one, spiritual and religious, the other, engaging in employment opportunities. church is optional. work is not. >> i've been with productions for nine months. >> perhaps the most unusual example of innovation at angola is the tv station. the only inmate production company in the united states.

you've been to the penitentiary. i agree that it's a wholly unpleasant place to be., and it is for everybody in your situation, is that you take advantage of whatever opportunities are there for you.and that, at some point, you develop a sense of empathy for what you've done to these i people. not just to mr. bishop, but to his family. and the curse of that is that you will feel the horror of that. but the blessing of that is that that will allow you to change. good luck with what happens next. thank you all.

you can be arrested by police and be put in a federal penitentiary. >> jones would punish parks. >> hep front and he says, i hear you want to go back home, and he started beating on me. he had two, three security that were karate experts hammering on me pretty good. >> parks was put on a hard work crew out in the hot sun digging ditches. in jonestown, even his 11-year-old daughter tracy parks got up for work before dawn each day. >> i had to work in the rice fields. you had to use a big machete or the big rake that had the knife at the bottom, and you had to cut the grass down. >> one day she went to the infirmary with an earache. >> and they looked in there and pulled out a cockroach the size of my -- half of my thumb. huge! >> tracy parks saw no future in jonestown. >> i knew that in the first month there, that i'm stuck here and that i'm most likely going to die here. >> verne gosney came a month after the parks. he brought his 4-year-old son mark. his wife had fallen into a coma during childbirth and never came out. gosney sank into a haze of drugs. >> i did use heroin. i used amph

but we found an inmate inside the penitentiary of new mexico who grew up with all of life's advantages. and yet still became a violent predator. >> i come from a nice family. a good family compared to a lot of the families i hear about in here. my dad's a retired naval officer. he retired from the navy and joined the national guard, retired from the national guard and then started going to the county for the job. he retired as the county jail administrator. my mom, she's a secretary. she's very educated, very knowledgeable and wealthy. she quit her job to stay home with me so that i would have someone there for when i got home from school. do my homework, make sure i do what i had to do. >> but that didn't keep him out of trouble. >> i never had to face consequences, so i figured i was pretty much untouchable. and i rebelled against them being so straight and i went crooked bad. >> steele's rebellion culminated in a 60-year sentence for residential burglaries, armed robbery and false imprisonment. >> i was robbing a house, boom, someone came home, i laid in wait and they came to the ga

good enough for penitentiary stay. >> harvey, illinois, south suburban chicago hot spot for gangs.rly september, and the cook county sheriff's police take down a crack ring they've had under surveillance for the past two weeks. lieutenant john blair, a 13-year veteran with the sheriff's police, and his team have seized about 530 pounds of narcotics to date in raids like this in 2009. >> no matter how many people you lock up, no matter how many people you tie into an operation there's always somebody there that will step up to the plate and take over for the dope dealer locked up. it's all about money. they're going to look at it as a business opportunity. they look at it as we may be doing them a favor. somebody will always be there to step up and take over. cash is king when you're a gang banger. >> gang members outnumber police by a ratio of 8-1 in cook county. faced with insurmountable odds, authorities curb what gang violence they can. >> the way to go use your pran. we have information on gangs. let's use it, use it to anticipate where they go. >> the battlefront for the sheri

but it's penitentiary to keep in mind now that more than half of israel's population, gret amore than half of israel's population, is now within reach of these rockets, fired from gaza. and lastly, on the diplomatic front, the egyptian prime minister visited gaza after the meeting. the egyptians declared their solidarity with the palestinians. in a very ominous sign during the visit was the egyptian prime minister to gaza, israel and the palestinians said there would be a temporary truce. that truce never materialized. each side, blaming the other for that failure. meanwhile, the death toll continues to mount, 29 palestinians and three israelis. it looks like more bloodshed is on the way. greta? >> greta: david lee, since many americans are new to the story. tell us what provoked this latest round, and if either side has indicated what would stop it? >> reporter: for the israelis, they say the only way that the military campaign is going to end is if there is a complete cessation of the rocket fire. it's not entirely clear what hamas would want, but a couple of issues would be an end

cell mates who seemed more like frat house brothers rather than inmates at a maximum security penitentiary. >> look at the nugget, dude. >> no [ bleep ]. >> when we met richard evans and richard boshears, the high-spirited duo had recently reunited as cell mates after boshears had recently been released. >> who are you tattooing on again? >> actually, got caught tattooing on this one right here. this is the one we got caught doing right here. we got ran up on while doing this one. gun in hand. >> really, for real? >> oh, man. >> thank you, gentleman, thank you. >> next thing i know, i do 14 months in the hole. >> he hangs out here. coming to the window. "when are you coming out, bro?" i'll be right out. i'll be right out. lies, man. >> we've developed a really nice relationship. >> i'd do anything for this guy. anything. >> same. >> he's my twin sister. older sister. >> i'm glad you came back. >> but this bond also has a dark side. the cell mates share a strong appetite for methamphetamine. >> what am i in for? cooking meth. back in 2002 i get pulled over. i have a whole lab in the car, mi

. >> bill: word of the day in the penitentiary, everybody. don't abscond. all right?o. [ laughter ] you having a good time in texas? >> i'm having a great time. >> bill: you moved down from new york to texas and they like you down there. >> previous it or not, it's like the anti-new york. >> bill: no, no, i lived there a few years. >> everybody likes me, there are a few that don't like they. here, it's everybody hates my guts. >> bill: if they don't like you, they tend to shoot at you down there 'cause everybody is armed. >> and i have no problem with that. >> bill: you still nimble? >> i can still duck quickly. >> bill: all right. good luck with the book. "agenda 21". i hope you approach the success of my books. and if you do that, you'll be happy. >> some of us have to work for a living, bill. some of us are scratching, eke out a living. >> bill: i like the pocket hankie. >> thank you very much. >> bill: is it legal on deck? another attack on christmas winds up in court. also the aclu again helping convicted sex offenders. legal is next can i help you? i heard you g