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inside rikers island and set to appear in court this week. >> beaten to a pulp. a pulp.nd now to destroy any young mind. bill: they get there for a reason. a new mom comes home from hospital to find that she has been robbed. >> check out this video of two thieves these entering an apartment in new york city and stealing the packages. only found out the list all the packages from it as crazy. a story that you and the viewers need to pay attention to. the viewers can be a help in a help in bringing justice. pregnant with twins, due in august. in labor for 50 hours. spend the next week in the hospital at mount sinai beth israel. a harrowing week in the hospital. she was discharged but the twins stay for another couple of months. when she and her husband got home to there apartment on west 46th and 9th avenue they saw the livery sticker for fedex $500 breast pump but there was no package. >> an essential item breast pump which is important for children to develop. >> the nypd is investigating and i talked to her husband about that. >> i believe they did release to the major
inside rikers island and set to appear in court this week. >> beaten to a pulp. a pulp.nd now to destroy any young mind. bill: they get there for a reason. a new mom comes home from hospital to find that she has been robbed. >> check out this video of two thieves these entering an apartment in new york city and stealing the packages. only found out the list all the packages from it as crazy. a story that you and the viewers need to pay attention to. the viewers can be a help in a...
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on the newshour: symbols of heritage and hate in the south; ending a "culture of violence" at rikers island in new york; migrants overrun a greek island as they make their way to europe; regulating how political campaigns use robocalls; a new film documents one casualty of stand your ground laws; and, stories not trending on education and human rights. >> wooduff: the wave of reactions to the confederate flag today reached into state capitols across the south. the governors of virginia and north carolina both called for taking the confederate flag off special-order license plates. u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell of kentucky said a statue of jefferson davis should be taken out of the state capitol rotunda. and in mississippi, the state speaker of the house called for the removal of the confederate emblem from the state flag. we look now at the south of we use this moment to take a look at the south of today with russell moore the president of the southern baptist russell moore is the president of the southern baptist convention's ethics & liberty commission. jack hunter is a radi
on the newshour: symbols of heritage and hate in the south; ending a "culture of violence" at rikers island in new york; migrants overrun a greek island as they make their way to europe; regulating how political campaigns use robocalls; a new film documents one casualty of stand your ground laws; and, stories not trending on education and human rights. >> wooduff: the wave of reactions to the confederate flag today reached into state capitols across the south. the governors of...
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what are your suggestions for rikers island? >> i think you keep that you charge the staff that violate the law and they're locked up. >> reporter: it's not hard to imagine the life he might have led if he had made it. >> i have the medal hanging on my bed. >> reporter: you see it in the remnants of the life and the people he left behind. like elizabeth p. yums community director at bronx community college, who worked with khalif. she says she's working on getting khalif his associate's degree posthumously. >> thank you so much. >> what do you want the world to remember of your son? >> to remember him for the standup person that he was. he was a good person. >> reporter: the kind of person who turned down a plea bargain on principle. whose story may help save others like him. >> if i would have just pled guilty, my story would have never been heard. nobody would have took the time to listen to me. i would have been just another criminal. >> our thanks to producer katie k ku. >>> the 2016 presidential election. plus broad city. h
what are your suggestions for rikers island? >> i think you keep that you charge the staff that violate the law and they're locked up. >> reporter: it's not hard to imagine the life he might have led if he had made it. >> i have the medal hanging on my bed. >> reporter: you see it in the remnants of the life and the people he left behind. like elizabeth p. yums community director at bronx community college, who worked with khalif. she says she's working on getting khalif...
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at rikers island. >> i hope the relationship can work.'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. right here is barbershop three, baby. >> makes you feel a little human again because your hair be look
at rikers island. >> i hope the relationship can work.'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...
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jennifer wrote this extraordinary story in the new yorker about rikers island.more which had another scandal where guards were running, were running riot. and some of the gang members and the inmates were running wild. people on bail people who were being held in lieu of bail of entail abused terribly by the legal system and people wind up serving in effect longer sentences, just waiting for trial, than if they had been convicted after trial. >> is the criminal justice system jennifer at least in this particular case it was clearly broken. is it broken more widely? >> certainly. it's broken in many different ways all over the country. i think we see that again and again in the news. we've been seeing all these cell phone videos recently of police officers acting horribly. and you've seen this huge push. all these protests pushing for accountability from our police officers. and width the videos you're showing today, i think it could potentially be the beginning of a push for accountability behind bars. really showing the public with video footage exactly what's
jennifer wrote this extraordinary story in the new yorker about rikers island.more which had another scandal where guards were running, were running riot. and some of the gang members and the inmates were running wild. people on bail people who were being held in lieu of bail of entail abused terribly by the legal system and people wind up serving in effect longer sentences, just waiting for trial, than if they had been convicted after trial. >> is the criminal justice system jennifer at...
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. >> several weeks earlier he was transferred from new york city's rikers island jail. >> he had a bunch of charges, assaulting other inmates, assaulting staff and definitely has a following, a lot of people under him that will do whatever he tells them to do. they have to do it or otherwise they'll be in trouble. by sending him out here it strips him of his power and he's more isolated. >> records indicate that the two-hour drive from rikers to suffolk was not without incident. >> i'm like, yo, where am i going? they said you're going far, suit up. when i turn around it was fight time and we started fighting. they whooped me out. hog tied me and drove me to suffolk county. i've been a hostage ever since. this was my career. i wanted to wear red flag and bang for my gang since i was like this. that's the honest to god truth. i never -- it sounds so stupid now but i never wanted to do nothing else. i'm living my dream. this is what your dream was when i grew up. >> investigator month is with the internal security unit keeping close tabs on influential gang members like mickey is part of h
. >> several weeks earlier he was transferred from new york city's rikers island jail. >> he had a bunch of charges, assaulting other inmates, assaulting staff and definitely has a following, a lot of people under him that will do whatever he tells them to do. they have to do it or otherwise they'll be in trouble. by sending him out here it strips him of his power and he's more isolated. >> records indicate that the two-hour drive from rikers to suffolk was not without...
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he is only from the first no one i met him, stories about being abused on rikers island.ver doubted him for a moment, but i think as an outsider, it is a must impossible to believe what he lived through. when you see it on the videos -- it was disturbing to watch those videos several months ago when we put them online, but to watch them in the wake of what happened, it is a must -- it is unbelievable. juan: you have reviewed the videos with him before deciding whether to publish them or post them. then you talk about his reaction to seeing or reliving it through the videos? >> from the first moment i met him, he said je, yet to get thatn video when this officer threw me to the ground and assaulted me. i thought, how am i going to get a video get them than i thought, how does he know the exact? he had an incredible recall for dates and for what had happened him. he knew this assaulted happened right on camera. i sat next to him and we watched it. on the one hand, it is like incredibly disturbing to watch. on the other hand, is gratified that people would finally know what
he is only from the first no one i met him, stories about being abused on rikers island.ver doubted him for a moment, but i think as an outsider, it is a must impossible to believe what he lived through. when you see it on the videos -- it was disturbing to watch those videos several months ago when we put them online, but to watch them in the wake of what happened, it is a must -- it is unbelievable. juan: you have reviewed the videos with him before deciding whether to publish them or post...
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there are lots of problems out at rikers island. as donna said kalief browder was innocent. he didn't steal the backpack. it's clear from the facts of the first long "new yorker" story, and his problem was he didn't want to plead guilty. >> guilty. >> to something that he didn't do. and so he should have of course, had his day in court. he didn't. >> and that's one of the things that is so stunning. i believe most people regardless of whether they're guilty or not end up pleading guilty just to minimize the time that they're spending in jail. the other piece i want to talk to you about is how can -- how is it sanctioned to throw a man into solitary jail -- solitary confinement, for that amount of time? i mean, he emerged having deep psychological disturbance. took his own life this weekend. i mean how is that sanctioned in any way by penal code? >> well there have been absolutely no constraints on use of solitary confinement at rikers island up until very recently. and the guards who run rikers island have been -- have not been held accountable for the brutality that they ha
there are lots of problems out at rikers island. as donna said kalief browder was innocent. he didn't steal the backpack. it's clear from the facts of the first long "new yorker" story, and his problem was he didn't want to plead guilty. >> guilty. >> to something that he didn't do. and so he should have of course, had his day in court. he didn't. >> and that's one of the things that is so stunning. i believe most people regardless of whether they're guilty or not...
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we have been talking about problems at rikers island. ent who committed suicide. he was held in rikers for thee years without trial. never convicted of anything wrong. >> right. >> i want to continue that conversation and play a little reaction from senator rand paul who long before this tragic suicide had talked about this as a problematic case. he links it to policy something we're about to talk about, he links it to why there is anger in places like baltimore and a cycle between police and civilian conduct. let's listen to that and get your reaction. >> i have been telling the story for about and year and a half two years now. it makes me sad. i thought i not talking or telling the story again but i thought this young man's memory should help to change things. he died this weekend. he committed suicide. he was a 16-year-old black teenager from the bronx. for goodness sakes, are we going to let people be raped, murdered and pillaged in prison because they have been convicted? he wasn't even convicted. so when i see people angry and upse
we have been talking about problems at rikers island. ent who committed suicide. he was held in rikers for thee years without trial. never convicted of anything wrong. >> right. >> i want to continue that conversation and play a little reaction from senator rand paul who long before this tragic suicide had talked about this as a problematic case. he links it to policy something we're about to talk about, he links it to why there is anger in places like baltimore and a cycle between...
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young man who took his own life after spending three years behind bars at new york's notorious rikers island simply waiting for a trial. never actually found guilty of a crime, we should say. and shreveport, louisiana, on red alert as the red river keeps on rising and the water has not been this high in 70 years. amazing pictures out of shreveport. i'm ashleigh banfield, welcome to "legal view." so much had to go so right for two killers in order to break out of their fortress like prison in upstate new york but it's one thing that went almost laughably wrong that could be the inmates 'un doing. the focus remains on a prison employee named joyce mitchell. according to a source familiar with the investigation, mitchell apparently was set to be the getaway driver, the person to pick up matt and sweat when they crawled out of their manhole and then they were supposed to have a driver to take them to places unknown. but that did not happen. instead, the source says mitchell went to a hospital with a panic attack instead, at this point two extremely dangerous men most likely felt panic themselves
young man who took his own life after spending three years behind bars at new york's notorious rikers island simply waiting for a trial. never actually found guilty of a crime, we should say. and shreveport, louisiana, on red alert as the red river keeps on rising and the water has not been this high in 70 years. amazing pictures out of shreveport. i'm ashleigh banfield, welcome to "legal view." so much had to go so right for two killers in order to break out of their fortress like...
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. >>> rikers island a 400-acre island in the east river that serves as the principal jail complex forew york city. about 10,000 inmates live behind its bars. kalif broad kalif broddard was one of them. he was arrested in 16 for stealing a backpack. the facility named the robert n. devoran center rndc and has troubling allegations of brutality that were exposed there last year when the u.s. attorney's office in manhattan found a deep seeded culture of violence is pervasive at the facilities in rikers. in a profile by the new yorker in 2014, kalif described the horrors he said he endured inside, the beatings he suffered in the jail were captured in two surveillance videos by rikers obtained by the new yorker. we will show some of that video now. warning, it is quite disturbing this was in 2012. the video shows a guard arriving to escort kalif to the prison shower. kalif appears to speak to the guard who pushes him to the ground. in another video, kalif is shown in a violent altercation with several fellow inmates. the new yorker blurred the faces to protect the identities of the teens.
. >>> rikers island a 400-acre island in the east river that serves as the principal jail complex forew york city. about 10,000 inmates live behind its bars. kalif broad kalif broddard was one of them. he was arrested in 16 for stealing a backpack. the facility named the robert n. devoran center rndc and has troubling allegations of brutality that were exposed there last year when the u.s. attorney's office in manhattan found a deep seeded culture of violence is pervasive at the...
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bill de blasio says a young man who committed suicide after he was imprisoned for three years at rikers island jail without charge did not die in vain. kalief browder was just 16 years old when he was jailed at rikers without trial on suspicion of stealing a backpack. he maintained his innocence and was only offered plea deals while the trial was repeatedly delayed. the case was finally dismissed. on saturday, kalief took his own life at the age of 22. speaking at a news conference de blasio mourned browder's death. >> there's just no reason he should have gone through that ordeal. and it is a tragedy and it has cut so many of us. it will be to change. i wish we had not lost him. this is a tragic loss, but once his story became public, a caused a lot of people to act. and a lot of the changes we're making at rikers island right now are the result of the example of kalief browder. i deeply wish we had not lost him, but he did not die in pain. amy: you can go to democracynow.org for our discussion of kalief browder's life and death. we had a segment yesterday and have continually covered his cas
bill de blasio says a young man who committed suicide after he was imprisoned for three years at rikers island jail without charge did not die in vain. kalief browder was just 16 years old when he was jailed at rikers without trial on suspicion of stealing a backpack. he maintained his innocence and was only offered plea deals while the trial was repeatedly delayed. the case was finally dismissed. on saturday, kalief took his own life at the age of 22. speaking at a news conference de blasio...
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earlier this week, 22-year-old kalief held at rikers island in new york committed suicide. >> it would'ven better if i had a plan. if i had a structured and committed support network. someone who would been through some of what i've been through in the prison. >> 80,000 prisoners are in solitary confinement in the united states. they spent 23 hours a day in cramped conditions with one hour for exercise. the challenges of freight entering everyday life are huge. many people assume that solitary confinement is a quiet place. the reality is that solitary confinement is loud. on either side of you you hear the sound of deterioration of the people around you. to be released onto the street there is a profound disorientation with the world around you. katty: since that report has been filed, the louisiana report agreed to temporarily block woodfox's release. audrey hepburn played holly golightly in breakfast at tiffany's. for many people it is not the plot that the music. in particular, moon river, which was composed specifically for hepburn. jane o'brien will take a look. >> breakfast at tiffa
earlier this week, 22-year-old kalief held at rikers island in new york committed suicide. >> it would'ven better if i had a plan. if i had a structured and committed support network. someone who would been through some of what i've been through in the prison. >> 80,000 prisoners are in solitary confinement in the united states. they spent 23 hours a day in cramped conditions with one hour for exercise. the challenges of freight entering everyday life are huge. many people assume...
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a clear psychological effect on him, who is now 68 years old >>> a weekend suicide of a former rikers island inmate prompted calls for changes at that troubled new york city gaol. the mayor bill de blasio says he'll push for reform two days after cal each browner killed himself. he was gaoled for three years, even though never convicted of a crime. he was released in 2013, but struggled with mental illness >>> authorities have been told to be on the look out for two men that escaped from a maximum security prison in new york. john seigenthaler reports investigators are looking into whether the convict had inside help. >> reporter: they climbed through a mann hole and vanished. leaving behind this. inmate 2297 david swep was serving life without parole for fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy 22 times. inmate 7:23 reportedly escaped before. this time he was doing 25 to life on a murder wrap. for torturing and dismembering his boss. the two were in adjacent cells at clinton correctional facilities. a state prison in northern new york 20 miles from the canadian border. friday night they rigged m
a clear psychological effect on him, who is now 68 years old >>> a weekend suicide of a former rikers island inmate prompted calls for changes at that troubled new york city gaol. the mayor bill de blasio says he'll push for reform two days after cal each browner killed himself. he was gaoled for three years, even though never convicted of a crime. he was released in 2013, but struggled with mental illness >>> authorities have been told to be on the look out for two men that...
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tonight, tonight at rikers island there are -- there's 1,000 or so people sleeping at rikers island. of nothing because they cannot come one $500 bail. >> david always a pleasure. thank you for joining us. >>> ahead, we take a look at what exactly was revealed in the first post-scandal duggar family interview. try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazing. thank you. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. audible safety beeping audible safety beeping audible safety beeping the nissan rogue with safety shield technologies. the only thing left to fear is you imagination. nissan. innovation that excites. >>> public sector unions have withered over attacks under the past years, a whole different segment of the country may offer hope to the struggling labor movement. online media. editorial employees at gawker media, that runs jeez bell deadspin, and others joined the writers guild of america, making gawker the first-ever digital media company to organize its labor force. nothing short of a landslide. 75% of the gawker employee
tonight, tonight at rikers island there are -- there's 1,000 or so people sleeping at rikers island. of nothing because they cannot come one $500 bail. >> david always a pleasure. thank you for joining us. >>> ahead, we take a look at what exactly was revealed in the first post-scandal duggar family interview. try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazing. thank you. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. audible...
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i understand he spent 800 days in solitaire confinement at rikers island.hey talk about losing control of themselves, the trauma of isolation sometimes brought on hallucinations. some of them tried to hurt themselves kill themselves. it's really not a place for young people. >> now the c.d.c. says incarceration itself, solitary confinement aside is one of the risk factors for suicide among young people, but isn't solitaire confinement used to protect some of these individuals from hurting themselves or others? >> sometimes facilities use solitary confinement to separate young people away from the general population. that highlights why children shouldn't be in jail in the first place because those who manage them don't have the special programs or services or resources to provide for people who are still growing and changing like young people. >> what should the system do? if there shouldn't be jails and prisons at all for juveniles even ones who committed terrible crimes where should they go? >> children shouldn't be in adult jails or prisons. rikers islan
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>> oh god, jose i'm also a defense attorney and most of my clients are at rikers island.ntinues but there are criminal charges. and they're facing serious amounts of time. the family of ronald spears has already received a settlement civilly. but this criminal case is clearly going forward and hopefully it will also just aid the effort by mayor de blasio to implement changes in rikers island. >> seema, thank you, good to see you. >> thank you. >> be sure to catch seema's show on msnbc.com's "shift" at 11:00 a.m. eastern every tuesday. >>> developing now in vermont, we're about to hear from vermont governor pete shumlin about ongoing efforts to ramp up security in the information that the inmates may have planned to go to his state. the governor expected to speak any minute now. you see the podium is set up and the microphones. as soon as they come to the podium, we'll bring you that information. meanwhile, we'll take a short break. it takes nature 90 days to grow the most golden oats. 7,200 hours to create the purest honey and, it only takes you 3 minutes to enjoy it. per
>> oh god, jose i'm also a defense attorney and most of my clients are at rikers island.ntinues but there are criminal charges. and they're facing serious amounts of time. the family of ronald spears has already received a settlement civilly. but this criminal case is clearly going forward and hopefully it will also just aid the effort by mayor de blasio to implement changes in rikers island. >> seema, thank you, good to see you. >> thank you. >> be sure to catch seema's...
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. >> imagine someone that goes to trial because there's a lot of people at riker's island who are onow-level crimes waiting for bail. we have a system of how we treat lower income people which is terrible but imagine you are thrown into solitary and you come out. what you learned in jail? you learn things that are not going to make america a safer place. we have done is systematically and they are going to be disenfranchised. there are 5 million people in this country that cannot vote and they have done their time and there is a bipartisan movement for criminal justice reform but economically, we have to feel safe. so letting about half of these people out, do you think he would be good for the economy? >> we need to keep criminals in jail. >> my answer is no, they shouldn't be in prison. but we have a serious drug problem and it's going across all socioeconomic levels. we need to keep people in our communities safe. >> you get surrounded by other criminals. you know, you are with those people for a year. it has been in your mindset, you're coming out mad. putting them in jail is not
. >> imagine someone that goes to trial because there's a lot of people at riker's island who are onow-level crimes waiting for bail. we have a system of how we treat lower income people which is terrible but imagine you are thrown into solitary and you come out. what you learned in jail? you learn things that are not going to make america a safer place. we have done is systematically and they are going to be disenfranchised. there are 5 million people in this country that cannot vote and...
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. >> reporter: chaos inside new york riker's island prison.his disturbing security camera footage from 2010 shows the gang beating browder and barging into a cell and beating him again. >> this seems like "lord of the flies" what is going on here? >> utter confusion. there is obviously a lack of control. they do not have the capacity. and this is not to demean the officers. they are clearly outnumbered. and they do not have the physical capacity to totally protect the inmate. >> reporter: this video was obtained by "the new yorker" magazine. two years after the gang beating, this video shows browder thrown to the ground after browder appears to say something to him. >> verbal assaults don't count. if we in corrections responded to every verbal statement that is made derogatory in nature we would be fighting every minute of every hour. that is common place. it is part of the culture. >> reporter: browder was sent to riker's for allegedly stealing a backpack in the bronx. he was ultimately released, the charges dropped. >> no apology or nothing.
. >> reporter: chaos inside new york riker's island prison.his disturbing security camera footage from 2010 shows the gang beating browder and barging into a cell and beating him again. >> this seems like "lord of the flies" what is going on here? >> utter confusion. there is obviously a lack of control. they do not have the capacity. and this is not to demean the officers. they are clearly outnumbered. and they do not have the physical capacity to totally protect...
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. >> reporter: chaos inside new york's rikers island prison.ang members assault a 17-year-old who never should have been there. this disturbing video footage shows the gang beating him and then beating him again in an isolation cell. >> this seems like "lord of the flies." what's going on here? >> utter confusion. there is obviously a lack of control. they do not have the capacity and this is not to demean the officers. they are clearly out numbered and don't have the capacity to totally protect the inmate. >> reporter: "the new yorker" magazine covered this story. two years after the gang beating, his head was smashed by a correction officer after he appears to say something to him. >> verbal assaults don't count. if we in corrections responded to every verbal statement that was made that was derogatory in nature we would be fighting every minute of every hour. that is common places. it's part of the culture. >> he was sent to rikers for allegedly stealing a backpack in the bronx. he always maintained his innocence but was kept in prison for t
. >> reporter: chaos inside new york's rikers island prison.ang members assault a 17-year-old who never should have been there. this disturbing video footage shows the gang beating him and then beating him again in an isolation cell. >> this seems like "lord of the flies." what's going on here? >> utter confusion. there is obviously a lack of control. they do not have the capacity and this is not to demean the officers. they are clearly out numbered and don't have...
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the commanding officer at rikers islands said the detectives who worked on both cases could be in dangeruld say they should be very, very careful. let me say you don't escape just to escape. certainly freedom is sweet and that's one thing they want to do. once you are out, then you start thinking about it's payback time. >> in fact one former detective who word on rich art meat as case told me police contacted him and warned him of matt's escape. another detective said he is prepared to defend himself in rich and matt comes after him. >> there are really chilling details that you've her about richard matts, his whole operation operation. >> one of the detectives who worked on the case of this william ricker son, who he was kicked of killing, he said you can never turn your back on him. when he faced trial, a sniper was post outside the courthouse double the usual number of deputies an the glad that covered the wooden table for the lawyers was removed out of the concern that richard matt might break the glass and use the shards as weapons. that's how potential violent this guy was and is
the commanding officer at rikers islands said the detectives who worked on both cases could be in dangeruld say they should be very, very careful. let me say you don't escape just to escape. certainly freedom is sweet and that's one thing they want to do. once you are out, then you start thinking about it's payback time. >> in fact one former detective who word on rich art meat as case told me police contacted him and warned him of matt's escape. another detective said he is prepared to...
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former rikers island commander says corrections officers should never take gifts from inmates. >> it places you in a compromising position. once you have set up that situation, it could be manipulated further where you are now in their debt. >> reporter: gaston says that if palmer used matt and sweat as sources for information which kept the facility safe as he claims, he shouldn't have done that either, unless it was sanctioned by authorities at clinton. was it? the new york corrections department wouldn't comment. a former inmate at clinton who said he knew palmer doesn't think that palmer would help inmates escape but did say this. >> he wasn't like the other officers. he would mingle with us more. >> reporter: that inmate, eric jenson worked at the tailor shop with joyce mitchell and david sweat and now drops a bombshell. jenson says four times a week mitchell and sweat would disappear in to a closet at the tailor shop. sometimes for a half hour or 45 minutes. >> i believe they were getting it on in that back room. >> reporter: mitchell's husband lyle said she swore to him she ne
former rikers island commander says corrections officers should never take gifts from inmates. >> it places you in a compromising position. once you have set up that situation, it could be manipulated further where you are now in their debt. >> reporter: gaston says that if palmer used matt and sweat as sources for information which kept the facility safe as he claims, he shouldn't have done that either, unless it was sanctioned by authorities at clinton. was it? the new york...
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>> so it is 10,000 people on rikers island, over 80% of them are just like kelief. bill 800 or 8 million for low poverty people it's the same thing. >> let's hope that step in the right direction keeps moving. thank you to glen martin. >>> up next pride here in new york city. and that man behind president obama in charleston on friday. take zzzquil and sleep like... you haven't seen your bed in days. no, like you haven't seen a bed in weeks! zzzquil. the non habit forming sleep-aid that helps you sleep easily and wake refreshed. because sleep is a beautiful thing. when cigarette cravings hit, all i can think about is getting relief. only nicorette mini has a patented fast-dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. i never know when i'll need relief. that's why i only choose nicorette mini. if you're running a business legalzoom has your back. over the last 10 years we've helped one million business owners get started. visit legalzoom today for the legal help you need to start and run your business. legalzoom. legal help is here. bring us your ach
>> so it is 10,000 people on rikers island, over 80% of them are just like kelief. bill 800 or 8 million for low poverty people it's the same thing. >> let's hope that step in the right direction keeps moving. thank you to glen martin. >>> up next pride here in new york city. and that man behind president obama in charleston on friday. take zzzquil and sleep like... you haven't seen your bed in days. no, like you haven't seen a bed in weeks! zzzquil. the non habit forming...
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new york city has reached a deal to end a lawsuit over abuses at rikers island jail. in an agreement with federal prosecutors and attorneys for injured prisoners, the city agreed to the appointment of a federal monitor, new requirements for reporting use of force by guards, new surveillance cameras, and a pilot program for guards to wear body cameras. the reforms follow a scathing federal report over excessive force at the jail. the supreme court has made it easier for prisoners awaiting trial to sue guards for using excessive force. in a 5-to-4 ruling, the court ruled in favor of michael kingsley, a wisconsin man who was awaiting trial on drug charges when guards removed him from his cell and shocked him with a stun gun for refusing to remove a sheet of paper covering a light fixture. columbia university will to fast from the private prison industry following 16 months of student protests, becoming the first university in the country to do so. organizers of the columbia prison divest campaign say they were notified monday that columbia's board of trustees had decided
new york city has reached a deal to end a lawsuit over abuses at rikers island jail. in an agreement with federal prosecutors and attorneys for injured prisoners, the city agreed to the appointment of a federal monitor, new requirements for reporting use of force by guards, new surveillance cameras, and a pilot program for guards to wear body cameras. the reforms follow a scathing federal report over excessive force at the jail. the supreme court has made it easier for prisoners awaiting trial...
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we talked to arnett gaston former chief of rikers island that prison notorious prison in new york heaid that a lot of the time when these guys get out it's payback they want they want to go after the guys who put them there. so the detectives who worked on that case could be in some danger tonight. >> all right, thanks very much brian todd for that. let's bring back our experts to discuss all these new developments. cedric alexander, quickly to you. we're being seen right now throughout the united states canada mexico. if somebody out there suspects that they're spotting -- they've spotted one or both of these convicted killers, what should they do? >> immediately, immediately wolf they need to get on the phone to their local authorities, whether in this country or abroad, and notify them and tell them they think they may have identified and they think these subjects may be within their sights. the sooner we're able to get them off the streets wherever they may happen to be the better for everyone that's involved. >> matthew, people should not approach these two guys by any means, ri
we talked to arnett gaston former chief of rikers island that prison notorious prison in new york heaid that a lot of the time when these guys get out it's payback they want they want to go after the guys who put them there. so the detectives who worked on that case could be in some danger tonight. >> all right, thanks very much brian todd for that. let's bring back our experts to discuss all these new developments. cedric alexander, quickly to you. we're being seen right now throughout...
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he would spend three years in new york city's rikers island jail, more than two of those years in solitaryonfinement. after a judge finally dismissed the case against him and he was released, he had refused repeated offers a plea bargain saying he wanted to go to court of prove his innocence browder , tried to reclaim his life. he went to community college but in the end, the nightmare he lived through overwhelmed him. this past saturday, twelve days after his 22nd birthday, kalief browder wrapped an air-conditioner power cord around his neck and hanged himself. according to the new york daily news, browder killed himself just days before he was scheduled to appear in court on charges described by his lawyer as baseless. nationwide, the department of justice estimates that about 80,000 prisoners are in solitary confinement. today we look at a new investigation by the marshall project and npr that reveals prisons are sending thousands of people directly from solitary confinement back into their communities with almost no help or preparation. in the state of texas, for example, only 14% of p
he would spend three years in new york city's rikers island jail, more than two of those years in solitaryonfinement. after a judge finally dismissed the case against him and he was released, he had refused repeated offers a plea bargain saying he wanted to go to court of prove his innocence browder , tried to reclaim his life. he went to community college but in the end, the nightmare he lived through overwhelmed him. this past saturday, twelve days after his 22nd birthday, kalief browder...
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three years in rikers island trapped without being convicted of a crime.e's not the only one spending time in jail without being convicted. from the first moment he was arrested insisted he was not guilty, he had done nothing wrong. he thought he would be held for a couple hours. it turned into three years. there was a moment after two and a half years a judge said to him, plead guilty today and you can go home. he said no. >> it's like kid, you don't understand this is the way the system works. you got to plead. we can't have trials for all these things. we don't have the time. so kalief thought, i have a right to a trial. >> and i didn't do it. >> and he was waiting for his trial. >> that is what ends up in the massive disaster that is this case. his insistence on his own innocence and his desire to have his constitutionally guaranteed trial in front of a jury is what keeps him in prison. >> and it meant he endured more psychological damage. and the most disturbing thing is not on the screen. it's that was day 862 without a conviction. >> and since you s
three years in rikers island trapped without being convicted of a crime.e's not the only one spending time in jail without being convicted. from the first moment he was arrested insisted he was not guilty, he had done nothing wrong. he thought he would be held for a couple hours. it turned into three years. there was a moment after two and a half years a judge said to him, plead guilty today and you can go home. he said no. >> it's like kid, you don't understand this is the way the system...
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but he had to wait on rikers island where according to u.s.neral there is a deep seeded violence. and can have catastrophic psychological effects. kalif spent almost 800 days in solitary. he tried to kill himself many times. a judge offered him a deal. plead guilty and you can go home right now. kalif refused. and then after three years on the island and 31 court appearances the da moved to dismiss the case against him. kalif went home but a piece of reichers followed him there. in my mind i'm still mentally scarred. he got his ged and went on to college. he went on the view and huff post live. >> this happens every day and i feel it's got to stop. there are a lot of people in there for stuff they didn't do and they got to be in there for about three years. and when they get in like me a lot of people will take the plea deal and take it knowing they didn't do it and that happens every day. >> june 6th of this about three years ago. kalif wrapped an air conditioner electrical cord around his neck and pushed himself out of his window. his mom fo
but he had to wait on rikers island where according to u.s.neral there is a deep seeded violence. and can have catastrophic psychological effects. kalif spent almost 800 days in solitary. he tried to kill himself many times. a judge offered him a deal. plead guilty and you can go home right now. kalif refused. and then after three years on the island and 31 court appearances the da moved to dismiss the case against him. kalif went home but a piece of reichers followed him there. in my mind i'm...
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. >> woodruff: the number of have agreed in principal on reforms that the riker's island jail complexass action suit by injured inmates had alleged wide spread brutality by guards. the reforms will include a federal monitor and thousands of video cameras. >> ifill: the number of veterans enduring long waits at v.a. hospitals has jumped 50% from a year ago. the department of veterans affairs was hit by a scandal last year over false records and long wait times. a "new york times" report says a surge in demand swamped efforts to fix the problem. >> woodruff: and on wall street stocks gained on hopes for a breakthrough in the greek bailout talks. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 100 points to close near 18,120. the nasdaq rose 37 points. and the s-and-p added 13. still to come on the newshour: the politics of confederate flags with tamara keith and susan page; roots of racial hatred in wake of the mass shooting in charleston; greece waits with bated breath for an emergency economic deal over debt; the supreme court boosts privacy and property rights in today's decisions;
. >> woodruff: the number of have agreed in principal on reforms that the riker's island jail complexass action suit by injured inmates had alleged wide spread brutality by guards. the reforms will include a federal monitor and thousands of video cameras. >> ifill: the number of veterans enduring long waits at v.a. hospitals has jumped 50% from a year ago. the department of veterans affairs was hit by a scandal last year over false records and long wait times. a "new york...
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. >> sharp is arrested and charged with multiple physical felonies, she is locked up in rikers islandhree days before she's released on bail. her sentence, five free aerial shows for children. >> my decision was neither reckless nor endangering of others. it was planned. controlled. considered. part of the reason i planned it the way i did was so that if i did fall, i would fall on the subway tracks. >> i hope through the capturing on video that we can appreciate what humans are capable of in such beauty and grace and strength and bravery. >> the two most commonly asked questions are why did you do it? and would you do it again? to the first i say because i can. and the second, i never do the same thing twice. >>> coming up -- >> i said to myself if i see blackness, i'm going to freak out. >> a father and son let their imaginations soar. >> we were just stunned. it was the most incredible thing ever. >> when "caught on camera: up in the air" returns. chmobile!? man, we had a lot of good times in this baby. what's your dad want for it? ..like a hundred and fifty grand, two hundred if t
. >> sharp is arrested and charged with multiple physical felonies, she is locked up in rikers islandhree days before she's released on bail. her sentence, five free aerial shows for children. >> my decision was neither reckless nor endangering of others. it was planned. controlled. considered. part of the reason i planned it the way i did was so that if i did fall, i would fall on the subway tracks. >> i hope through the capturing on video that we can appreciate what humans...
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it involved a man who spent three years in rikers island jail when he was just 15.ary confinement and all of that was done without him performing a crime, waiting for a trial that would never come. he told reporters he was abused by fellow jail officials and fellow inmates. there is a video where he was taken from solitary to the shower. he appeared to say something to the guard and the guard then smashed his face into the floor. this story is now mentioned in the presidential campaign trail. >> if you ask kalik whether or not the bill of rights are being defended, he lives in that other america that martin luther king talked about. >> when he was finally released in 2014 he told the new yorker quote, i'm mentally scarred right now. there are certain things that have changed about me and they might not go back. over the weekend brower was found hanged by his parents. it was 1,111 days in jail with no trial and no conviction. tell us how he wound up in rikers and what took so long for him to be released? >> he was accused of stealing a backpack and police were told t
it involved a man who spent three years in rikers island jail when he was just 15.ary confinement and all of that was done without him performing a crime, waiting for a trial that would never come. he told reporters he was abused by fellow jail officials and fellow inmates. there is a video where he was taken from solitary to the shower. he appeared to say something to the guard and the guard then smashed his face into the floor. this story is now mentioned in the presidential campaign trail....
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this morning fbi agents arrested two corrections officers in the 2012 death of an inmate at like rikers island. it took place at the officers' homes on long island. among the charges in the government's case one of the officers held the inmate ronald spear, face down on the floor while the other officer kicked him in the head repeatedly. >>> we want to update another big story that was breaking here in new york. at least 18 people hurt on a new jersey transit bus when it crashed into a tour bus carrying more than two dozen students and two adults at the lincoln tunnel. none of the students or adults were injured. they are visiting from toronto on an eighth grade graduation trip. a woman in a car stuck behind the crash went into labor. no word on her status yet. the accident is cleared and traffic slowly returning to normal. ♪ ♪ time upon a once people approached problems the way same. always start at the starting. and questions the same asking. but that only resulted in improvements small. so we step a took back and problems turned these inside-up-down to approach them newly. and that's when w
this morning fbi agents arrested two corrections officers in the 2012 death of an inmate at like rikers island. it took place at the officers' homes on long island. among the charges in the government's case one of the officers held the inmate ronald spear, face down on the floor while the other officer kicked him in the head repeatedly. >>> we want to update another big story that was breaking here in new york. at least 18 people hurt on a new jersey transit bus when it crashed into a...