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 b

rikers island has 1400 people -- 14,000 people. i worked at a high-school that had a mural on the wall. there was a figure, a man dressed in green, split in two. the front have has a gun, a rifle in his hand, military fatigues. the back half has the prison inmate uniform. on top it says choose your dream. so those are your options. we have seen it hurts our families apart. women are the fastest growing population to be incarcerated. we see women's prisons, men's prisons, teenagers -- they have a baby prison for the babies. they build a prison every year based on third and fourth great test scores in black and latino communities around the country. that is a fact. i can give me the documentation on that. so when the police are grabbing us up, it is a function of capitalism. white supremacy and capitalism, they have had a very long dance together. the police are filling the prisons because prisons operate like hotels. they do not make as much money, so police are agents of the state. not only where they serving the interests of the w

his alleged cohorts get to be paraded in a caravan, through these same brooklyn streets, heading to rikers. >> reporter: all five suspects are being held without bail. >>> the u.s. postal service agrees to postpone the quloations of hundred -- closings of hundreds of mail facilities. all scheduled to shut down will now remain open until may 2012. the move will allow congress time a plan to work on a way to save the service. >>> in tonight's healthwatch, scientists are experimenting with a new procedure that could make lungs more available for transplants. right now, only 20% of donor lungs are deemed usable. randall pinkston reports for wjz, with a possible breakthrough. >> reporter: it's been a long journey for patricia kingsbury. she's been waiting six months for a lung transplant. >> i had a number of calls that were -- they weren't viable. >> reporter: running out of options, the former smoker turned to an experimental procedure at the york presbyterian hospital. the human exvivo lung profusion system, or help, will allow doctors to determine if a transplant will work before they trans

i got to talk to commander riker and data and geordi la forge.me, patty was a rainmaker, a magical person who could transform him from boy to man to husband, and his love, his obsession was real, it was spiritual. those secret wedding vows they pier were as binding to jaime as if they had been made in a holy cathedral before god. a promise he made terrifyingly real a few weeks later. it was during one of their weekend getaways, they were on the freeway, jaime driving, when his cell phone rang. it was an ex-girlfriend and patty, listening to jaime slightly embarrassed attempts to politely get the girl off the phone, became suddenly violently angry. >> she throws this water bottle at my head and that gets me flustered. like what did you do that for? just pull the car over, turn it around, we're over, we're through. i started yelling at her, telling her, so you're telling me that we're through? she said, yes. and i said, well, then, that means we need to die if that's what you're saying. i pushed the car to, like, 95 and i purposefully ran myself un

having visited rikers island before and seeing their homeless prevention program up there, there are tremendous challenges we have in our city and communities everywhere where people go into the jail system because there were homeless and often leave the jail system because they're homeless. so prevention is a key factor. >> someone indicated that people move from one state to another because they find that in one state, they do not receive the resources that they can receive in another state. to what extent do you find this to be the case, where we have people who literally say that, if you go over to one state, you can get help. >> certainly, the implementation of federal programs from one state to another various the rally because discretion is given to local and the with the state implements federal programs. but the resources that states and local governments contribute to the solutions also vary. some states contribute and support have lay helpless programs to provide assistance. other states provide very little if no assistance of all. the resources for the families vary great