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.

. >> get arrested in the big apple, and you're almost assured of a trip to rikers island, a 400-acre penal colony on the east river, directly under the flight path of laguardia airport. connected to the mainland by a narrow two-lane bridge, the island is home to an average of 14,000 inmates in ten different facilities. >> every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. >> -- is coming through here if they come from new york city. >> they come off of the streets. they are tired. they're dirty. they're hungry. and you saw everything there, whether it was somebody who was from wall street who was charged with fraud or whether it was the lowest of the low of the drug dealers. >> get between 80, 90 admission a day. around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> what size do you wear? >> 8 1/2. >> guess what? 10 is going to be your lucky number. these are air giulianis. you can have them, my brother. >> never stops. the city never sleeps. >> while cell inspections are routine at all the jails and prisons profiled on "lockup," the

at rikers island. >> i hope the relationship can work.e think it's not possible, but it really is possible because i met my wife, literally, a month prior to me being arrested. and we have been together ever since. >> ready? >> mickey and colbert, whose wedding is now two days away, have been cleared to visit one part of the jail nearly as popular as the yard, the barbershop. >> it's different. >> gray hair in the front. >> the barbers are also inmates with prior experience from the outside. they are selected by officer bryant. who strives to make the barbershop something special. >> i try to duplicate the same atmosphere that we would find in the street at any other barbershop. >> what do you get the dye for old men? he needs some of that. >> just try to keep the fellows at ease. have something to get off their chest or something to talk about, they can talk with me or the homies in here. that's what it's all about. to meet your barbershop peers. if you ever saw "barbershop 1" "barbershop 2," this is barber shot 3," baby. >> makes you fe

since jerome couldn't afford to pay, he was sent back to rikers island, to wait for his trial. in this episode of fault lines we look at how courts handle the accused before trial. it's a story about a multibillion-dollar industry - bail bonds - and a justice system in which money determines who goes free, and who stays behind bars. it's four pm in the sacramento suburbs. we're riding with a team of bounty hunters, looking for a fugitive. >> so this is a skip of somebody who was charged with drug possession and she's on a $20 thousand dollar bail, and she failed to turn up for court in december. >> around fifteen thousand bounty hunters operate in the united states. bail bond companies hire them to track down criminal defendants who have skipped their court dates. we're with rob dick, one of america's most famous bounty hunters. this is his partner, roger adair. >> yeah it's right here, in that court, on the left side. >> hey. >> there's a suburban in the driveway. it's in the court. >> the house to the last one on the left side. >> they are hunting for a woman charged with dru

>> the effect of keeping people at home families stable and lowering the rate of incarceration at rikerss enormous. the ripping effect from an economic and social perspective. that is exciting. >> the plan could help others avoid what his client endured. >> that was his message. now it's his legacy. that means a lot to his family. they'll never have their son, nephew, brother, unle back. they'll know that he's made a difference. >> together the world is getting the best view of pluto that the human eye has seen. n.a.s.a.'s mission growing closer to the planet. sending back images baffling to signs and n.a.s.a. pictures of geological patterns are coming into view. >> it's amazing what we are seeing now. it was a gradual approach. every day we see a new view of pluto telling us things we never knew before and seeing crazy black and white patterns we have no idea what they mean and we are seeing circular things - are they craters or something else. >> new horizons is travelling to pluto at the rate of 9 mills -- mills person. i'll be back at 11. see you then. [ ♪♪ ] on"america tonight" - th

new york city, we have a terrible prison here rikers island, it's a local prison.uation always has been. and the liberal mayor of the town de blasio doesn't like it. it hasn't been able to reform. he is a big talk guy. but now the city says they are not going to charge low level offenders with crimes and throw them over to rikers if they can't make bail right? >> they are not going to give them bail. there is a problem in rikers island. pee can't afford bail so they sit there for months and years. there is a tragic case of a 16-year-old man named khalif broader. he allegedly stole a backpack $3,000 bail. >> he he can't make. >> it the family can't make it he sits there bill, for three years, he is he beaten by some of the inmates puts in solitary. he gets out. the poor young man. >> because he stole a backpack. >> allegedly but the charges were dropped. they get dropped. >> set there for three months. >> committed suicide last month. tragedy. >> you can't justify that on any level, all right? but to react to that now no bail for who? >> well, they say it's dismeern

he was sent to prison at rikers island where he endured a three year prosecution, or non-prosecution, bronx county district attorney's office who presumed him guilty in this case. during that time he was in solitary confinement for two years where he endured torture by corrections officers to who with there are to ensure his safely but kha leaf was at their mercy and ultimately in the two years since his relief after the district attorney dismissed the charges without apology, he had made progress but ultimately i think his nightmares were too much for him. did kalief browder show signs of mental illness before his non-arrest? arrest for something he was never charged yet spent all this time at rikers island or do you think his mind unravelled. two years in solitary confinement for something he didn't do. >> absolutely alex. he was a kid when he was arrested. he had no mental health issues at all whatsoever yet during the course of that confinement -- and i won't get into the horrific details of what he endured, it's well documented -- he attempted suicide five times in jail and three

but the rikers story is -- >> rose: bill keller, i think. we hads idea that in all the conversation about rikers what was not properly understood but the hyphof -- if you thought of rikers as a city what the life of the city was about, and actually our operating idea was what due it smell like. >> rose: yeah. and, so, we went to bill keller and to this woman oraller editor of the "new york times" who worked with criminal justice issues and we created a team, and that team went and did a series of really amazingly intimate oral accounts for what life was like for the prisoners, guard, teachers, and looked at it as if it were its own urban environment. very intimate and harrowing, as you would imagine and with very interesting storytelling. but also online, supplemented in all kind of ways with only the kind of storytelling -- >> rose: and someone like me likes the obama history project conversations with historians about where he stands. >> which was in january, what's fascinating about that project, i looked at it last night. >> rose: some h

. >> emblazoned on the gate. 132 riker each year. >> you heard that right, the deceased are buried inuried here, too. comes along and tries to undo my good work clicks the family name on the prominent family once on property all throughout new york city. the most famous land is right across the bowery bay. >> it took me three months carried out everything that was stored in the attic want to read to read everything every ledger every book every correspondence. i read down through the years. people passed away. i read all the names and realize they are all buried in my cemetery. quick creepy to live among the dead. as the fairytale clicks i met my husband on our second date he said, how would you like to see my cemetery. >> that was in 1979. four years later marion married michael smith and the two never questioned where they would live. what began next was a complete restoration project. >> there was a was a fire in the 1950s. we came across the remnants. originally i was upset. i realized i realized as part of the history of the house. her collection. >> but it was not just about pre

it's an existing program and trying to make it so more and more people every day are not going to rikers, and are instead staying home. these are people who have not committed any crime. bail puts people in jail, not because they're convicted but because they cannot afford 500 or $1,000 bail. >> today the city called on the proposal to run the program. and it will likely start next year, a larger overhaul of the city's criminal justice system. >> advocates have been calling for this for years. why is it happening now? >> it appears that the suicide of a young man played a role. when he was 16, he was accused of an offense but the family couldn't afford the bail that was called for so he spent three years at riker's island: we're going to hear from his attorney tonight. >>> one year after israel began it's bombardment of gaza, israel launched rocket fire, and the fighting lasted for 50 days. when it was over, more than 2200 palestinians were dead. and 7100 israelis, mostly soldiers were killed. and 18,000 homes were destroyed. not a single one has been reby the. and at least 121,000 peopl

>> also he doesn't want to send them to rikers island. >> rikers is the local prison he hasn't made it de blasio we don't want to send them to prison and put them back out on the street to do what they do. thank you very much we appreciate it it when we come right back, bernie goldberg on whether i am making mistake on getting specific legislation passed to stop criminal aliens coming back to america. bernie is next. ♪ ♪ ♪ (vo) making the most out of every mile. that's why i got a subaru impreza. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. when you travel, we help you make all kinds of connections. connections you almost miss. and ones you never thought you'd make. we help connect where you are. to places you never thought you'd go. test test. and why we continue to create new technology to connect you to the people and places that matter. >>> thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly. in the weekdays with bernie segment tonight. as you may have noticed i have stepped out of my role as an analyst and taken on an advocacy position this week. the position on bill o'reilly.com for kate's

>> also he doesn't want to send them to rikers island. >> rikers is the local prison he hasn't made itasio we don't want to send them to prison and put them back out on the street to do what they do. thank you very much we appreciate it it when we come right back, bernie goldberg on whether i am making mistake on getting specific legislation passed to stop criminal aliens coming back to america. bernie is next. ♪ ♪ ♪ you're only young once. unless you have a subaru. (announcer) the subaru xv crosstrek. symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 34 mpg. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. unbelievable! toenail fungus? seriously? smash it with jublia! jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. use jublia as instructed by your doctor. look at the footwork! most common side effects include ingrown toenail, application site redness, itching, swelling burning or stinging, blisters, and pain. smash it! make the call and ask your doctor if jublia is right for you. new larger size now available. >>> thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly. in the weekdays with bernie seg

protests increased after the suicide of 22-year-old kalief browder, who spent three years at rikers as teenager, after he was accused of stealing a backpack and couldn't pay $3000 bail. he denied he committed the crime and was eventually released without charge. the plan described by the associated press ahead of today's announcement will replace bail for low-level suspects with daily check-ins and text message reminders. and new york city will hold a ticker tape parade for the u.s. women's national soccer team for their world cup victory, a rare honor for a team not based in new york. manhattan borough president gale brewer had urged mayor bill de blasio to hold the parade, writing quote "new york city has a strong history of honoring sports achievements...but has never held a parade to honor a women's team. our newest soccer champions represent an opportunity for new york to recognize that heroes and role models come in all genders," she wrote. the last time new york city honored a group of national athletes was in and those are 1984. some of the headlines this is democracy now, demo

he spent two of his three years at rikers in solitary confinement.ards and fellow inmates even after his charges were dismissed he was released he struggled with depression paranoia and in june he committed suicide at the age of 22. to remind us of that story because this idea that -- i get -- i feel like what president boehm is saying there are people who commit acts of rape or commit acts that i don't know i like the language we have no tolerance but i think he's trying to make a distinction there. that's not what law is. law makes the extinction at the space of being a teenager accuse accused of stealing a backpack and i think we have to be careful about that violent versus nonviolent language. >> to me the fact he was so young. so we know the supreme court has already made it unconstitutional to sentence a juvenile to life in prison without the possibility of parole. that is now what our greatest court has said. and yet right now we have 2,500 juveniles who were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. these are kids and i'm a mother

but how many people read the rikers island series that we did? i can't tell you the answer to that and i don't care. that was fundamental. imagine the service you? >> i think i would say, if you look that's let's say the last 15 investigative projects the new york times did which would include rikers, which would include the beasley did about three weeks ago about three quarters houses, which would include the nail salon series, this past week the story about the death of your garner, i do think you said something important. that one of our jobs is to show people the world that they might not otherwise have seen. that actually fits perfectly into the mission. what i would say to the question about the commitment to use technology in newsgathering, i don't how many of you follow the upshot, the upshot which i think will go down -- i did not create it it was one of the creators of the upshot is in the audience. the upshot is largely a journalistic institution i would call it that is built on data journalism. david hurt runs it, and his goal is to l

jerome died in his cell in rikers at the age of 56.overheated to more than 100 degrees and the mentally ill homeless man basically baked to death. he was awaiting trial after he was arrested for trespassing, for sleeping in the stairwell of a housing project rather than outside in the february cold. he was in the cell where he died because he couldn't afford his $2,500 bail. the new york city system of cash bail that keeps people there while they wait for their case to be resolved. bail is meant to ensure defendants show up in court and if they can pay, then they're released pending trial. they will get the money back even if they're convicted. if a defendant can't make bail they're held in jail until they get a date in court which could be weeks or months or years. a defendant in new york city waits years for trial. now the city is trying to do better. officials announced that some defendants charged with misdemeanors will be able to go home while they wait trial without paying bail. city officials say it will reduce by up to 200 peop

. >> well, the tragic story of the young man in new york at rikers island who was -- he was arrested for stealing a backpack. had $3,000 cash bond set. the family could not make it. was in jail for three years. refused to plead guilty. charges were dismissed. he committed suicide. i mean, this -- this is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. >> and, in fact, new york is preparing to do away with their cash bail. new jersey's already -- last year, the legislature approved an act that says that judges can decide, for nonviolent offenders, not to even set up a bail. should philadelphia go down that road? >> well, we clearly have to get back to the point where judges have discretion of what they can do, and prosecutors. the pendulum is now swinging back, you know? we came down very hard on lawlessness and crime, and now it's swinging back the other way. the key is not to swing back too far and to do so in a way that like i said, is holistic, that looks at opportunities for african-american and hispanics and other people who are going to jail and ways to rehabilitate them. >> it means gi

in rikers, they paid 40,000 for undertooky. we have "egypt in crisis," -- condoleezza rise, forker secretary of state. they had a board of trustees, whether it's bob hope, ted turp are, i didn't agree, but i was happy to here him speak. he had a different way looking at the world. >> bringing in someone who might be controversial, you know, i think you make a good point. maybe there's not an opportunity for the student to talk back. i think that there's validity in expressing the ideas in putting them out there. i'm in favour of more ideas. they beget better ideas. >> we have run out of time. thank you all for your time. straight ahead. calls for a wall to keep out migrants. not on the u.s. border. >> did the police beat you up. >> they talk almost in uniform stories about the sort of ill >> [crowd chanting] hell no gmo. >> they're slamming a technology that could be used to solve problems for people who desperately need it. >> they get exited about technology whether it's in their phone or in their car, so why is it so weird o

but how many people read the rikers island series that we did? i can't tell you the answer to that and i don't care. because that was fundamental. do i turn this over to you? >> yes. i would say if you looked at -- let's say the last 15 investigative projects the new york times did, which would include rikers, the these we did about three weeks ago about three quarters housing, which would include the nail salon series, the story about the death of eric garner. i do think you said something important, that one of our jobs is to show people a world they might not have otherwise have seen. that fits perfectly into the mission. what i would say to the question about the commitment to use technology and newsgathering, i do not know how many of you follow the upshot -- the upshot, i did not create it, so i can say jenna elder the creator of -- one of the creators of the upshot is in the audience. david's goal is to look for ways to use data to jump on big stud -- stories of the day. >> he thinks that that is not big enough. would you say while? and it

we had this idea in all of the conversation about rikers what was not properly understood was the lifeyou thought of it as a city, the life of the city was about. our operating idea was what does it smell like. so we went to bill keller and a former editor of the new york times and we created a team. that team went and did a series of intimate oral accounts of what life was like for the prisoners, the guards, librarians teachers. really looked at it as if it were its own urban environment. very intimate. and harrowing, as you would imagine, and with some interesting storytelling. online supplemented in all kinds of ways with storytelling you can do online. charlie: the obama history project. a conversation about where he stands. adam: what is fascinating, i looked at it last night they were responding -- it is amazing how fickle history is. they were responding that peace was in january they were responding to the events on the ground in january. any number of historian said what changed his legacy is what will never happen, a deal with iran. what would change his legacy is what will n

. >>> joining us now is gary hayward, former corrections officer at the notorious rikers island.mself after being called smuggling drugs on the job. gary good to see you. >> how are you doing today? >> i'm pretty good. these are pretty big changes. in your view is this going to be enough? or is this just the beginning of more to come? >> well, it's just the beginning. it should be enough for the time being in the correction officers and facilities stay consistent. they have to keep it up. >> does it come as a surprise to you these are the change that would come now after this big prison break, when we understand over the course of many years, there hadn't been a whole lot of changes? >> they didn't need a lot of changes. how often does an inmate really escape to this magnitude? they changes don't surprise me because if you put changes in place, like for instance they put these changes in place right now. if in another year or two, an inmate finds another way to get out of prison they're going to make more changes to adapt to the inmates. the inmates are always sitting, always plo

let me move along and bring in a clinical psychologist and former warden and commanding officer at rikers island in new york. welcome. >> thank you. >> can you just step me first and try to get inside david sweat's head because he said he ditched matt because he was out of shape. he was drinking in this cabin, but even more revealing sweat said that he was aware that matt had been killed. upset he moved onward to canada. my question is what's in it for him to paint this picture that he david sweat, was the strong the mastermind the planner. >> well there are several reasons. one, he can now be an uncontested hero. this is quite an accomplishment. >> a hero to who? >> to fellow inmates, prisoners and for people who are fascinated by these type of exploits. further, he can without opposition talk about how he was the mastermind how he concocted the whole idea how he championed the entire -- the entire affair and it can raise his prestige among prison populations, so that -- that is one of several reasons why he may have done it. secondly by saying that he masterminded the entire plot there

but how many people read the rikers island series that we did? i can't tell you the answer to that and i don't care. that was fundamental. imagine the service you? >> i think i would say, if you look that's let's say the last 15 investigative projects the new york times did which would include rikers, which would include the beasley did about three weeks ago about three quarters houses, which would include the nail salon series, this past week the story about the death of your garner, i do think you said something important. that one of our jobs is to show people the world that they might not otherwise have seen. that actually fits perfectly into the mission. what i would say to the question about the commitment to use technology in newsgathering, i don't how many of you follow the upshot, the upshot which i think will go down -- i did not create it it was one of the creators of the upshot is in the audience. the upshot is largely a journalistic institution i would call it that is built on data journalism. david hurt runs it, and his goal is to l

today's reform addresses complaints that too many poor people wind up in the troubled rikers island complexse they can't afford bail. under the new policy, judges have the authority to order supervision options including daily check-ins. >> ifill: and, a federal judge today ordered that the washington redskins' trademark registration be canceled. he upheld an appeal board's finding that the team's name is offensive to native americans. the ruling allows the team to keep its name, but makes it harder to sue for trademark infringement. team officials said they'll appeal. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour: disruptions in the air and on wall street roil passengers and investors debating privacy rights, terror threats and government access to encrypted communications, aging pipelines in the straits of mackinac prompt safety concerns, in china, investor panic creates a crisis of confidence in the chinese economy, how the shutdown of export-import bank may affect american business and why television remains the dominant medium in the digital age. >> ifill: worries over the vulnerability o

. >> so the guy who wrote this book "corruption officer, from jail guard to perpetrator inside rikers it started with a pack of cigarettes. he had a low paying $28,000 a year job. he graduated to smuggling in cocaine for something closer to $1500, i think, for an houns, half an ounce, actually, ultimately he was caught. an inmate turned him in and he was caught on video. he said the temptations are just too huge for these officers but then i ask myself how is it any different than a lot of other jobs aren't there that maybe aren't as high paying to turn to a life of crime? is there something about our vetting process of guards? are we setting the bar too low in hiring these guards? >> in some cases i think the application investigation unit could do a better job. the hiring practice, you want to look at whether or not people have had bankruptcies, liens and judgments because typically i've learned as a private investigator, people that go bankrupt are more often more likely than not to engage in other criminal activity because, you know, they need money. >> what about just the notion

look at that case from rikers island, of course that man was there much longer but a whole host of reformst, and i hope that comes out of this tragedy in texas. >> the family is en route to texas. i spoke with their lawyer today. they're going to meet with officials and really press for justice here. do you know whether or not they're going to get an independent autopsy? >> that's what a lot of people are calling for, rev. i spoke to someone earlier who said they really want to push for the fbi getting their own autopsy. as you know families who are searching for answers have a few limited tools at their disposal. you have to imagine that this would be one of them. i want to also reference back to the d.a. said apparently 85 people in this jail on friday night over the weekend. if you ever come to this community, rev, it's a very small country little snap of a town. to have 85 people in there is very interesting to say the least. she was one of the folks by herself. to your point, the family's coming down for answers from chicago. on monday they'll meet with texas rangers. they're hopeful

of pieces on kalief browder, this 16-year-old boy african-american and new york, who was sent to rikerssland because they said he stole a backpack -- which he swore he didn't. in fact, they said over a period of time, they said they would let him out if he said he did it. he was held for three years without ever been convicted of a crime. he was held in solitary for close to two years. he got out after three years attempted to go to college. he was very popular, but he left with being haunted by the rotelle imprisoned, beaten by guards shown on video. he took his own life last month. she wrote him a letter, is that right? >> yes. amy: right before he died. >> i wrote the letter after i learned of his suicide. i wrote the letter in the spirit of what would i have said to him when he was struggling with the realities of what he experienced inside solitary confinement. it was largely based on my own experience. solitary confinement is by far one of the most barbaric and inhumane aspects of our society. i call it america's greatest shame. men and women in that environment suffer from high l

joining us to talk all about this, gary hayward, a former corrections officer at rikers island.he became an inmate himself after smuggling drugs while on the job. i want to start with the new security measures in place. i was talking to a former inmate this morning who told me for six months they'll do these things, they'll do more bed checks, check underneath the tunnels, but eventually inertia will take over, boredom will take over, and they'll be right back where they were. >> he's right because when i was a correction officer, one of the duties was randomly pick a cell and we had a rubber mallet which we had to go in the cell and back bang on all the walls. i took it seriously for five minutes when a supervisor was there. other than that, because how many times does an inmate really escape from prison? so when you factor that into my job duties and everything else i have to do as a correctional officer, that's not going to be pop priori top priority. i may do it randomly. if i did it yesterday, i'm not going to check that cell today. if they stick to it, it would help. it wo

i cannot help but think about relief the man out of rikers he choked himself after being confined unjustly for years. >> i cannot help but think when i started writing this book researching this topic five years ago i could not have known that they're would be this black class matter movement whether we would see this cycle of police shootings of unarmed boys and men people shot in the back, you know, just within seconds. but in some ways i saw that this could be a metaphor for these times. you no metaphor for black boys and men. he was captured. he was caged. you know, he was degraded. and much of society had very little sympathy or empathy for what was going through. and i think of mass incarceration. it's just that a society have worked on impassively at generations there were locked up. often times for low-level drug offenses but also innocent people who just never had a fair trial or legal representation. so it is a continuation of the same kind of ideology that could result in what happened to him. >> i wanted to no whether or not you polled teachers for educators at schools of educa

and other places in the country, but she was from san francisco, and i remember when she went to rikers with the women, you maybe weren't born yet, but anybody who knows history will remember the women who went there and who were advocating that president reagan take the position which he ultimately did. so, yes, i am -- i think it's really important that, after all these negotiations, with all the engagement, the diplomacy, the wisdom, the brilliance, the ideas and the imagination, and the compromises that have to be made, that this be supported and i am having this conversation very respectfully, because some of our members are at different places in terms of their involvement in these kinds of issues, or their service in congress. and some have very definite views and have some very strong questions, all of it healthy and valuable. all of it to be respected by all of it, but yes, this is one of the joys of my service, to come back to what i've said to you before, one of my early goals coming to congress was to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. it's always on the