rikers island is different.rs 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. we

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 how's 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

. >>> a brawl last night at a new york city riker's island jail complex, four guards injured along witheveral inmates, we're not sure what started the fight. >>> and would you want to buy items once owned by former boston crime boss james "whitey" bulger? you may be able to soon. the u.s. marshal service planning to auction jewelry and other items taken from bulger's beautiful santa monica apartment after his bust. wasn't that beautiful, actually. >>> as the holiday shopping season kicks into high gear millions of people are struggling with shopping for health insurance on the obama care website. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius, though, putting out her version of consumer-friendly tips for individuals, trying to navigate the problem-plagued site, just how truthful are these tips? jamie weinstein is the senior editor for "the daily caller" and joins us to talk about it. tip number one, let's put this up on the screen, it says the product is popular so avoid the lines and shop healthcare.gov during off-peak hours, morning, nights and weekend, gee, i don't know, last

next thing you know, you'll be doing life in rikers island. - well, that's better than looking like the bing island. - that place doesn't exist. it's not a documented island. cartograph much? - [whistles] - how do i look? - actually... you look great. they steered you right. i guess it does make sense buying from a father-son team. you know what? i'll take one too. - everyone, now that we have all this energy, why don't we move the copier into the annex like we've always wanted to? - whoo! - frickin' a! - so long, noise! - one, two, three! [rip] - oh! - and we have torn up the carpet. oh, we're gonna be in so much trouble! - wait! it's beautiful. hardwood. i always knew it was down here. i just never dreamed that i would actually see it. - tear up the carpet! - whoo! - kill their fish, and they still hire me. that's how you do that, baby. y'all ready for this? ♪ uh uh-uh-uh ♪ uh uh-uh-uh ♪ uh uh-uh-uh - ♪ everybody dance now - yeah! ♪ uh uh-uh-uh ♪ uh uh-uh-uh - kevin, move. i can't pull up the rug if you're standing on it with your rhinoceros feet. - well, i can't stand here if you pul

so he spent three years in the rikers island correctional facility here in new york before the chargesf lbj, instead of existing in the true state of equality, many of rus living in a police state where brutality and violence are committed against american bodies conveying that some of those bodies still don't belong. joining me from washington, d.c., is eugene o'donnell, a professor of law and police study at john jay college, also a former officer at the nypd. at the table, alan jenkins, the executive director of the opportunity agenda, also raul, valerie, and maya are still with us. officer, these stories, they do begin to feel like they're indicative of a set of police forces around the country who just seem incapable of doing the work of protecting and serving and instead are in this almost military relationship with communals. am i get eing that wrong? >> you're not. i think the police are just overused in america. the criminal justice stm is too broad, too much power, too many crimes, too many offenses, punishments are too harsh and bluntly police departments are not as aggressi

hinders the program's integrity and representative riker is ready to put a stop to it so take it back to the days when i was driving troll car if you don't stop people for speeding. right everybody thinks they can speed so we don't hold people to the law on a freeway and start citing people for doing over seventy miles an hour pretty soon everybody's doing unemployment fraud is a criminal offense and with representative records in this you tips and washington states are ramping up efforts to prosecute offenders anyone caught gaming the system by cashing undeserved checks could face possible prisons and says and the inability to collect unemployment in the future washington d.c. perry and boring r.t. more than two years after a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami or rocked japan to its core and through its nuclear reactors into a frenzy nuclear engineers are entering perhaps the most dangerous stage of containment for the fukushima daiichi power plant this week teams are preparing to move the highly sensitive uranium and plutonium fuel rods from the facility experts what the toky

smachl recently allison henry donated her birthday money, enough to vest her local k-9 officer named rikero k-9 has been turned away. in fact 450 dogs have gotten the body armor in 37 states. officer meyers' dog will get his in weeks. >> what is it about a k-9? >> i think i see the bond when i look at each of these officers with their dog and i feel like i'm doing what i am meant to do. >> reporter: committing to her passion to protect k-9s. abc news, bristol county, massachusetts. >> this is one of those things where you think, i'm an animal lover and always wanted to donate but i'm tired of donating to the aspca or i don't know where the money is going this is the kind where you know exactly where the money is going. >> it makes dollars and cents. that is my dog. lassie orrin tin tin. rin tin ti. >>> mix tiechlt everybody goes crazy before the game. let me set i it up. this guy, a student at holy cross college. if the ball goes in he wins text books which are a lot of money for a student but he doesn't get to shoot the ball. the school mascot dressed as a saint bernard gets to shoot the

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 plastic. they're truly ingenious but deadly as well. >> at california's san quentin state prison, we saw how s

at rikers island jail, a bakery churns out 90,000 loaves of bread a week while teaching inmates how to bake. in many prisons profiled on lockup, inmates have opportunities to learn skills that can help them fiend work on the outside. all too many spend time on skills leading to mayhem and murder. >> i stabbed an inmate. >> i took a knife and stabbed him with it. three, four times. until he was dead. and then i butchered him with it. a piece of metal. it doesn't have to be sharp. it has to have a point. put a handle on it. do what you need how to do. >> lockup crews are leg rarly exposed to the tools of a deadly trade. you know in every prison we film in there is always a shank museum, a place where the authorities display all the weapons confiscated by staff. home made weapons from bed springs or melted down plastic. they're truly ingenious. but they're deadly as well. >> at california's san quentin prison, we saw how sophisticated some inmate weaponry scan b rry. >> this is formed by ground up match heads. inmates insert a wick. the inmate takes a plunger, pokes shrapnel in the open e

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as head of the notorious rikers island jail, he ran one of the largest jails in the country, and he'sited with turning it around. kerik went on to lead the new york city police department during 9/11, and with his career on the rise in 2004, then president george w. bush nominated him to be secretary of homeland security, but that came to an abrupt halt when kerik pled guilty to tax evasion and lying to the white house. he served three years in a federal minimum security prison in maryland, and he was released back in may. we spoke to kerik exclusively earlier this week, just days after his home confinement ended, and i began by asking how he's doing. >> i feel pretty good. it's all a transition. it's a pretty intense transition to come home. >> talk to me a little bit about daily life. what was it like for you? >> there isn't much you can do in prison. my daily life consisted of reading. i think i read over 300 books while i was there. i did a lot of writing. i exercised a lot. >> you thought a lot, i would imagine. >> you do a lot of thinking. >> did you mix with the other inmates?

recently allison henry donated her birthday money, enough to vest her local k-9 officer named riker. 450 dogs have gotten the body armor in 37 states. officer meyers' dog will get his in weeks. what is it about a k-9? >> i think i see the bond when i look at each of these officers with their dog and i feel like i'm doing what i am meant to do. >> reporter: committing to her passion to protect k-9s. abc news, bristol county, massachusetts. >> this is one of those things where you think, i'm an animal lover and always wanted to donate but i'm tired of donating to the aspca or i don't know where the money is going. this is the kind of foundation where you know exactly where the money is going. >> it makes dollars and sense. that is my dog. lassie or rin tin tin. that is my dog. lassie or rin tin tin. that is my dog. lassie orrin tin tin. s. that is my dog. lassie or rin tin tin. e. that is my dog. lassie or rin tin tin. n. that is my dog. lassie or rin tin tin. se. that is my dog. lassie or rin tin tin. . that is my dog. lassie or rin tin tin. . that is my dog. lassie or rin tin tin. .

while in riker's island are plotting to kill several people that they thought were witnesses in the money laundering case against them. so they been indicted on those new charges. so did i think this is an interesting example of the opportunity that can be prevented by the criminal conduct, again, sort traditional criminal conduct that is often used by people who either are or have ties to, may be related to terrorist operations. that's it. >> douglas, thank you very much. [applause] >> our final panelist is luz estella nagle who is a professor of law at stetson university college of law in st. petersburg, florida. she specializes in international law, international criminal law and national security law. prior to assuming or teaching responsibility she was a judge in colombia. when she came to the united states she served, i'm delighted to say, as one from university of virginia, as a law clerk to the supreme court of virginia. she has an extraordinary background, including working as an undercover agent, and in addition to that she is currently an external researcher in the strategic st

, somebody is going to stand up and say we have had enough, put them all in jail, put them out of rikersput them somewhere. very killing each other. and the kids are seeing this, and they are thinking it is wonderful, we are going to make big bucks. unfortunately, the evidence of the hands about the failures of some of those policies. it was only this year maryland abolished the death penalty. all those years of the 80's -- 1980's and 1990's, where there were very serious problems it with the drug trade that only in maryland but in the country, apparently was not terribly effective if one believes that as a way to solve some of the drug-related violence. what we do know about the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980's in 1990's, we had a very deadly mix of young people, easy access to guns, and this new -- turfch created a new battles and a light -- and the like. for a variety of reasons that diminished. it is still a problem in many neighborhoods, but we should not be making policy that is going to affect us for generations as we did with harsh sentencing long locking people up after they