rikers island is different.ikers island you could run around the hallways, do whatever, basically. >> been here about two and a half months. i'm awaiting extradition to new jersey. i got paroled in new jersey. basically, that's it. i was on the run for four and a half years from new jersey and finally got caught. >> this is phillip santiago's fourth time at rikers. he was convicted for credit card fraud and has been on board for two and a half months awaiting extradition to new jersey. >> oh, i need to be outside. i ain't been outside the last month and a half. oh! hell, yeah. >> how's it feel? >> it feels the best, it feel good. it feels very good. a beautiful feeling to come outside, especially when you're incarcerated. all the air you get is to go to court and that's it. you get on the bus. besides that, you get to look out the window. and that's it. >> everybody, place your i.d. cards on your outermost garments. put them up on your chest, please, gentlemen. keep the noise down. we're going to take it inside.

county, miami-dade and new york's rikers island. they represent a real cross section of life across the country. each one has its own unique set of challenges. >> lockdown, lockdown, lockdown. >> got to be on point. >> lockdown, lockdown, lockdown. >> can't let your guard down for nobody. >> this is not a place to be. >> this is as close to a living hell as i think i ever want to come. >> step back behind the red line. >> everyone, bend over. >> if you like this type of thing, this is the place to be. >> i want to kill myself. i can't take it. >>> for the uninitiated, or in this case, the unincarcerated, there is sometimes confusion between prison and jail. prison is only for convicted felons. jails also house convicts, but only those awaiting transfer to prison or serving short-term sentences. usually less than a year. >> listen up for your name. >> stand on the foot prints for me, please. >> most jail detainees have pending court cases, have been denied or are unable to make bail. >> put your stomach on the wall, hands behind your

earlier the captain was shown red for bringing down the stir riker. hanover's player converted the penalty. he score just before the break. they were lucky to be down by just 2. >> i think the uncertainty is normal now. the players lack confidence. during halftime, i give them a tongue lashing. >> after the break, they came out strong. adam scoredminute, one back for the visitors. a few minutes later, he failed to tap in the equalizer in front of an empty goal. the score remained 2-1. hanover weren't immune to red. he was sent off for this dangerous foul. another disappointment. they face an uncertain future after picking up only one point in 3 games. >> for more news, information and more bundeslig, you can visit our website. that wraps it up for this edition of "the journal". thanks for watching. saw new developments over the scandal of the united states secret surveillance program. they focused on the journalist. wasonday, david miranda making headlines, the partner of the guardian journalist who broke the story. transitting through heathrow airpor

they were together in rikers. garza: yeah, i was on the rock with bobby for eight months.get away from that. then why did you let bobby stay here? it was hard to say no. me and him, you know, we been through a lot. he tell you he was running from a murder rap? i figured it was something serious. he had a gun. i didn't know. you want to think about that some more? briscoe: what do you think your parole officer's going to say when we tell him you opened a rooming house for armed fugitive all right, yeah. he had a burner. i made him take it out of here. he didn't have it with him at the port authority. well, i told him he was stupid to be carrying it. maybe he ditched it between here and the bus station. the taurus. don't put your shoes on my seat. back seat's clean. are you satisfied now? you like pizza land? what do you care? maybe you want to eat what's in the bag. a .25. that stupid bobby. i'm going to kill him. be our guest. nowhere to go, bobby. man, i beat the stinking case already. hey, you try to go over that fence i'm going to have to stop you with this. see, fellas

report of new york city's jail system reveals just how expensive a prison stay really is in fact rikers island just so happens to be one of the most expensive it neighborhoods and all of new york city now according to the report by the city's independent budget office the city spent an average of one hundred sixty seven thousand dollars per inmate in two thousand and twelve bringing the total cost of the jail to just over two billion dollars now it should be mentioned that eighty three percent of the jail costs go to employee wages and benefits and yes new york city apartments are notoriously tiny but still one hundred sixty seven thousand dollars for a nine by five jail cell tops the charts in order to offset the prisoner costs one jail in tennessee thinks it might have found a solution it's called pay to stay and it actually is and if he sees that it's exactly what the title suggests now prisoners at the anderson county jail in clinton tennessee will pay for just about everything they use nine dollars fifteen cents for pants six dollars twenty six cents for a blanket and a dollar twen

at rikers island jail, a bakery churns out nearly 90,000 loaves of bread per week while teaching inmates 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 plastic. they're truly ingenious but deadly as well. >> at california's san quentin state prison, we saw how sophi

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they american prison population was exploding 600 to 700% my mother among her many hats work that rikersisland. i was aware from a young age about the phenomenon of mass incarceration and i was drawn and horrified by the way that one is drawn to something like a vocation. as for the other piece, i think our refueled of religious studies is populated by people who tend to be emphatically ambivalent about the traditions of their upbringing. i fit into that category. i was raised essentially an orthodox jewish by agnostics although i didn't figure that out until somewhat later in the game. in fact my orientation both through american social justice tradition stands independent about his very ethically minded. the commandments that pertain to one's relationship to the almighty and commandments that pertain to one's relationship with his fellow man or woman and i've always been on the latter half of the spectrum. that said, i say in the book that to honor the complexity of the world with my description as a scholar in the way that nietzsche's calls us to is about as theological as i get. i fe

decade before that, we had studies in new york, they were looking at it and showing how rikers islandrisons across new york, it was the same seven neighborhoods. so yeah, we need to think about systemic and structural issues because it's not something band-aids on cancer can fix. we need to look at how to look at this and correct the last 30 to 40 years of tough on crime and drug war rhetoric and policy that have completely failed and left us with the greatest prison crisis in american history. >> it feels so difficult to me that on the one hand, this is a moment when so many african-americans might feel empowered at part of their country with an african-american president, that they were such a big part of electing. but then that experience of being thrown up against the wall, of being frisked, when you've done nothing wrong, separates you from your country, separates you from your sense of connection to your community. >> absolutely. obama, i was shocked he made the statement. i also, you know, want him to extend his concern about what's happening with police and prisons here, to li

it was originally called wearing your pants rikers style. when you went in you turned in your belt. your shoe laces. and the only shirt the jail provided was a white double xlt-shirt. are you equating dressing like a criminal to african pride? are you saying it is okay to perpetuate the negative stereotype of young, black men as convicts, criminals, prisoners? how does that enhance their lives or society as a whole? i do give you, russell simmons, and some of the hip hop and rap community credit for trying to clean up your act. some like j. cole and kanye west are now rapping about social issues like the prison industrial complex. more of that, please. we welcome that. everyone does. you're not off the hook. finally you write in part, i want the black kids to grow up and be like you. i want them to know that their imagination is god inside of them. russell, i really appreciate that, but i don't want black kids or kids of any race to be just like me. i want them to grow up to be better than me. that's what my parents wanted for me. and their parents wanted for them. and as we approac

the 1980's and 90's at a time when the american prison population is exploding, my mother worked rikers island. so i was aware from my young time and a young age about the phenomenon. i was always drawn and horrified by it in the way that one is drawn to something like a vocation. as for the other piece, i think religious studies is populated by people who tend to be emphatically ambivalence. i fit into that category. there was raised an orthodox jew , although it did not figure that out until later. in fact, my orientation both through judea's a man through american social justice, very ethically minded. a talk about it in the book. the commands that pertain to one's relationship to the almighty and his fellow man and woman. i have always been on the latter half of the spectrum. that said, i say in the book that to honor the complexity of the world with my descriptions as a scholar and the way is a bet as the logical as i get. i feel like my allegation is to try to do them justice. i hope to repay the debt. as a scholar incentive would a certain kind of violence when we erase that comp

the american prison population is exploding 600 or 700% and my mother among her others worked on rikers island so i was aware from the young time and at a younger age about the phenomenon of the mass incarceration. and i was always horrified by it in the way that one is drawn to something like a vacation. as for the other piece, i think the field of religious study is populated by people who tend to be emphatically ambivalent about the positions of their upbringing. i fit into that category. i was raised essentially an orthodox jew by agnostics although i didn't figure that out until somewhat later in the game. so in fact my orientation both through judaism also stands independent of that but very ethically minded and a distinction that i learned in the jewish state school that i talked about in the book. the amendments that pertain to one relationship the almighty and that pertain to one's relationship with a fellow man and woman, and i have always been on the latter half of the spectrum. with that said, i say in the book that to honor the complexity of the world with my description as

they're not going to profile 50-year-old chunky tom as a criminal because i'm not -- i'm not filling rikers. if we had more police, we could profile everybody. >> john: i do wish they would stop and frisk down by wall street because that's where the real crime is and all of the coke. >> tom is right when he points out crime has gone down. it will be interesting to see if the police department does put a grip on it, it crime starts to go up. >> john: what's the ripple effect of this? will this allow incarcerated inmates to sue and challenge the basis of their arrest? >> it is probably unlikely because it is a standard. what the court really said was the standard was wrong. what's going to be difficult to prove on an individual basis is one person who comes up and says i didn't look suspicious. >> john: tom, you know mayor bloomberg defends this policy. he says he will repeal the ruling. will he succeed? >> well, i guess if he gets a conservative republican judge, he will. ultimately, this is heading in a bad path for the city of people. at some level, unless it got to the supreme court which

they're the biggest providers of mental health care, rikers island, the l.a.unty jail. >> we turn them into prisons. >> how ironic. >> yes. >> illness, actually. >> and so -- >> you see it play out in the most disturbing, distressing and extreme ways but tragic everyday ways in terms of people coming into the criminal justice system, very ill sometime, that has a lot to do with our crime, the things that put them. heavily, heavily medicated and dumped back on the streets and it's a cycle that continues and continues and continues in and why do we allow it? why has nothing been done? i'm asking you, melissa, that. >> i'm supposed to be saying good-bye to you to say a footnote but i'll say good-bye for 15 seconds and come back and ask a couple more questions. sos and 6 weeks of sleep but one thing you don't want to lose is any more teeth. if you wear a partial, you are almost twice as likely to lose your supporting teeth. new poligrip and polident for partials 'seal and protect' helps minimize stress, which may damage supporting teeth, by stabilizing your partia

riker to the friend know you were having a conversion moment? >> guest: he had no idea. a very personal, is something that i was not sharing. c-span: what did you do when he had that moment? >> guest: >> guest: i have this fleeting sense of personal commitment and realization that i had crossed a bridge into the coming -- becoming what i thought i would never be a believer in a personal god. c-span: was there anything else going on in your life that might've helped to get to this point? >> guest: i think this realization as i was a physician that life and death is all around you and this is really an important question. this is not something to put off indefinitely as i had maybe planned to do. as a scientist i was looking at all these things about how nature works and how biology is wired but what is more important question than is there a god? that seemed like it was one that needed an answer. c-span: did you ever have any conversations with christopher hitchens where he might've changed his mind at the end? he was telling us he wasn't going to change about his belief.