judge reggie walton, the chair of the present -- commission. the phone lines are open. as always, the numbers are at the bottom of the screen and you can send an e-mail or a tweet comment. you alluded to something i want to elaborate on, that for many it is expected. when you are in prison, it is part of the culture. guest: there are some people who believe that somehow that is the consequence of going to prison. i have been a judge for over 25 years. i have sentenced well over 1000 people and i never in my sentences indicated that part of the penalty would be sexual abuse when someone was incarcerated. it is just not part of the punishment. it should not be. but i think there is a perception on the part of some that goes with the territory. host: lewis is on the phone from raleigh, north carolina. good morning to you. caller: my question is, why don't they keep the prisoners under supervised activities like work and doing jobs when they are not in their cells? guest: there are many facilities that do in fact provide work opportunities for inmates. but sometimes that wo

caller: my question is -- reggie walton is report about the sexual abuse in prison, i am concerned about the number of rapes being reported. a lot of the men that are being raped, some of them are being infected with hiv and aids. when they come out of the prison, they are sleeping with these different women. host: that is one of the points that he mentioned. 95% of those incarcerated in u.s. prisons ultimately leave jail in move back into society. caller: this is a big problem. what will the of administration do to try to curb this? the african american community, especially the black women, are being infected with this. i am not infected, thank god, but there are so many that are. as far as the hon darhondurans e concerned, how will that affect the illegal immigrants here? host: we did invite him to come back on in a couple of months to see how the administration is dealing with some of the questions that you posed on incarceration and the situation of rape in prison. inside the "usa today" -- a look inside the british monarchy. funding for the queen elizabeth and the royal family cost

after that reggie walton on the prison rape commission, then the president for international policy talks about the situation in honduras and columbian president's visit to the u.s. later in the program dahliaa lithwick. later in the day a look at iran's presidential election and what's ahead at tehran. live coverage from the woodrow wilson center at 12:30 p.m. eastern. secretary of state hillary clinton addressed the situations in honduras, iran, and iraq at the state department briefing. she spoke for about 15 minutes. >> hello, how are you all? i actually missed you. and i want to thank you for the flowers. they are immeasurably adding to the healing process. i wanted to come down because there's a lot going on, and there are a number of important issues to address today. but i want to start with yesterday's unfortunate events in honduras. they were a test of the inter-american systems ability to support and defend democracy and constitutional order in our hemisphere. the united states has been working to fashion a strong consensus don demming the detention and expungs of the president

host: but judge reggie walton, chair of the national prison rape prevention commission. thank you appeared in a couple of minutes, the situation in honduras and a broader discussion of what is next with u.s. policy toward colombia and central america in general. and a 5-4 decision by the supreme court and many other decisions by this court as it wraps up for the summer recess this last day of june. "washington journal" continues in just a minute. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> how is c-span funded? >> publicly funded? >> donations, maybe? >> government? >> c-span gets its funding through taxes. >> federal funding? >> a public funding think? >> may be, i don't know. >> 30 years ago america's cable companies greeted c-span as a public service, a private business initiatives. no government mandate, no government money. >> this holiday weekend on open. >> tv." and unfamiliar side of the nation's first president as we are who live from george washington's estate with a stirring and author joh