don't even want to remember it. >> under realignment, elsie's sentence was to be carried out in the county jail. since realignment took effect some 30,000 offenders have entered the county systems. >> i brought shame to my family and everything else. and i don't want my kids to come and see my incarcerated. and touch them like barbie was saying, can hold them, can do nothing. and i have little kids. >> the question that is not being asked is what happens to her children? what happens to those two kids who grow up without a mother? my kids didn't really wanna get to know me which was really hard. i mean i spent 10 yrs dreaming about getting home to them and then to get home and be like, no, we don't even know you lady. we traditionally have taken families and separated them. they will sentence a person to a jail or prison that is hundreds of hundreds of miles away. sometimes even in other states. without regard to the break up of the family unit. and then there's surprise when the person gets out and they re offend. >> ultimately, many argue realignment has done little to shift the underlying cu

from all over, and that's especially apparent at an imposing landmark just outside downtown, the bergen county jail we got the dirty south in here. north carolina. ain't nobody that's in this county that's from this county. it's crazy. >> i'm from trenton, new jersey. ready to go home. been here too long. >> 65% of our population are out of county residents. a lot of them are for drugs. they are going into the city or coming out, they get pulled over. they use bergen county because its use of artery highways. down the eastern seaboard. so a lot of those individuals are incarcerated here. >> most of the roughly 900 inmates housed here have been accused of crimes and are awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. like many, deanna collins is not only from somewhere else, philadelphia, she's also facing drug charges. but she's unique in another way. >> what happened to your hair? >> really? it was a process. and it fell out. it's horrible. >> it was a process? >> yeah. chemical. just fell out. >> at the beauty parlor? >> yeah. >> i had a chemical treatment. i was supposed to be doing body wave a

we did not have the races fighting against one another in the jail system. >> l.a. countyl officials told us most of that violence stems from one source. ♪ >> almost half of our jail population is street gang members and they are probably responsible for 70 to 80% of the crime that occurs in our jail. and nearly all of our murders have been gang related in one way or another. >> the gang bangers get younger every year. >> you are in a gang. >> yes. >> what gang are you in? >> south gate marijuanos. >> he told us he joined a gang when he was 14. >> you have a job outside. >> no. >> you gonna get a job. >> i don't think so but you never know. >> how are you going to survive. >> there's ways to survive out there. self-employed. >> i continue to question him. i started pressing, started finding out, trying to find answers to things, what really motivates him to do that. his gear shifted from being like a goof ball to, you know, you're crossing the line here with your questioning. >> what kind of things you do as a gangster in your daily job? >> no comment on that one. >> just

we did not have the races fighting against one another in the jail system. >> l.a. county jail officials told us most of that violence stems from one source. >> it's tripping out these mother bleeping -- without my wishes. >> almost half of our jail population is street gang members and they are probably responsible for 70 to 80% of the crime that occurs in our jail and nearly all of our murders have been gang-related in one way or another. >> and the gang bangers get younger every year. yeah. >> where are you from? >> south gate ig juan for thes. >> i'm from the root boys. >> he told us he joined a street gang when he was 14. >> do you have a job? >> no. >> are you going to get ojob? >> i don't think so, but you never know. >> how are you going to survive? >> there's ways to survive out there. self-employed. >> i continue to question him. i started pressing and started finding out trying to find answers to things, what really poet rate motivates him for the that. it shifts from crossing the line with your questioning to you are a goof bomm. >> what keevend of things happe

three months later, he was transferred to the bergen county jail to stand trial for first degree murderg his first few weeks here, he was housed in the medical unit under suicide watch. >> after being here for about three weeks, he was able to convince the doctor he wasn't suicidal. that's when we placed him in population in the high security wing. shortly after, maybe within an hour or so, he attempted to kill himself by utilizing a razor blade and attempting to cut his throat open. >> my lawyer came to see me and told me i was going to do life in prison. if i was going to do life in prison, i was just going to speed up the process. >> he possesses the skills where he can turn on a dime. he was saying he was perfectly fine. moments later, we're digging a razor blade out of his neck. >> after his suicide attempt, goodell spent several months in the medical unit. his caretakers have vivid recollections of his time there. >> he heard everything, everything. his phone calls, he would read your lips, that's the scariest. so we would have to talk with our backs to him. >> diagnostically, dav

it's the largest city in bergen county which is ranked as one of the most prosperous regions in the nation. just outside downtown hacken sack is the bergen county jail. most of the nearly 900 inmates here are accused of crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. the majority of them are from somewhere else, and many say bergen county is better than other jails. >> this is a country club. you can play chess all day, no problems. three tvs. it's a country club. >> the country club reference goes back as long as i've been here. i look at it as a compliment. country club is a professional, well organized, strict with rules and regulations, cleaner and i look at that as bergen county jail. some of the dirty grungy type of jail, they're not going to find that here. >> right here in bergen county jail, there are good, good people, just straight up real. >> with seven prior stays, enrique cruz qualifies as the jail's unofficial tour guide. >> spanish harlem over in this mother [ bleep ]. except for this white boy. you got uptown over here. mp [ bleep ] uptown. >> over a period of 26 years cruz has spent time not only in bergen county bu

this is the kent county jail. to about a thousand men and women most of whom are accused of crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of the cases. >> i can't do anything that i want to when i want to. i have to ask everybody. i hate asking for anything. >> food sucks. there ain't no sugar coating it. the food sucks. >> don't ever come here. >> one of the jail's minimum security housing units. >> we teasingly call this the hamptons because they're up here with no cells. they have freedom of movement. as long as they listen and that's kind of their punishment is the thought of having to go live behind doors again. >> most of the inmates in there are pretty compliant. they're easy going and a lot of them are in there for minor crimes. so we really don't have to stay on them that much. >> but you do still have to supervise it. >> i call it h2-awesome. it's pretty nice. you have more freedom. you have a microwave, two flat screen tvs we can watch. we have the pull-up bar and stuff for working out. >> this is the

he's trying to make the most of his time in the bergen county jail. ow the house man, or lead inmate worker, of his housing unit. >> everything's going pretty good. got, you know, back in s-4. i'm happy. everything's -- thing's on track. >> the only compensation for a house man is more time out of his cell and extra food trays. >> trays up. >> battaglia's new cell mate works as a food server. they've created a business of sort, trading their extra meals for commissary and then they trade those items for favors or even more commissary. >> normally on the tray, i just take the main course and the snack. and i'll give away the other, you know, like they're hungry. they don't have -- they get one tray. i get three. you know, i'm feeding you and you're providing a service for me. you help me out. you clean my room, heat up my water in the morning, wash my dishes after i eat. i don't -- i won't do nothing for free. >> we have our hand in everything, food, laundry, toilet paper, anything that comes in the tier, we have -- >> anything extra. i feel -- i feel s

get into in the little cells to get multiple exercises, it's all pretty interesting. >> at the orange county jailwe covered the story of inmate jeremy bowles, whose sweating workout routines left his cell window covered in condensation. >> can you see me? >> yeah. >> and sure enough, he wiped the steam away and it really made a pretty dynamic shot. >> bowles later invited brian kelly to experience mattress curling, one of his improvised incell workouts. >> like your taking a squat? >> yep. >> guarantee [ bleep ] you quick. >> heavy. >> oh, yeah. >> my arm is bigger than this. >> it was as if i was doing a barbell curl, i don't know what the weight was there was resistance there and it was an effective exercise for these guys to work their biceps, it was great. >> i'm going to go back to work. >> while prisons are full of male inmates, sweating and grunting through workouts, we've noticed many female inmates take a more relaxed approach to fitness. >> by far male inmates work out much more than female inmates. it's very rare to see a male inmate that doesn't workout. like it's rare to see a female

he was sentenced to one year in the kent county jail in addition to the eight months he's already servedthat he was going to take into account my eight months, so i thought he was going to say you've sat eight months i'm going to sentence you to four more months in kent county jail, but it didn't happen that way. it's a long sentence, you know? ♪ ♪ >> sentencing is also finally in sight for four other inmates. nearly a year erle willier, brandon towns, james hodges and dorian jones all pled guilty to charges related to a home invasion robbery in which a female college student was raped. they could not be sentenced until the case of the fourth co-defendant was resolved. rederick melton proclaimed his innocence. he's voluntarily spent the last seven months in a sparse segregation cell preparing for trial, but now there has been a major development and melton is headed back to general population. after nearly a year of proclaiming his innocence, melton has changed his plea. >> now that i've already pled guilty i'm going to go to prison so i don't want to be over there until i ride it out. s

there are about 900 men and women incarcerated inside of the bergen county jail. most are only accused of crimes and awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. many of them will also share something else in common. >> we are seeing a large influx of coming into our facility for heroin, prescription drugs and oxycodeine and things of that nature, but heroin is making a huge comeback and not just in the suburbs or the urban area, but all areas. >> reporter: alyssa schlossberg look no further than her own skin of heroin's comeback. >> i shot my feet, too, like in here, and little spots in here, here. my family being around them, they know what these are. you know, people that don't know that i do drugs now can tell. so it is embarrassing. but nothing a little foundation can't fix. i have so many moments where i don't remember. i hear what happened, you know. when i was at the hospital, the nurse had told me that they found me naked on route 46. i had no recollection. before coming here, i passed out in front of a judge and didn't remember anything in court excep

at the kent county jail it houseses about 1,000 men and women. some have been convicted, but most are only charged with crimes. they're waiting trial at the resolution of their cases. captain randy has been confronting problems for the 25 years he has worked at the jail. >> my friend says the thing that makes corrections so easy is that all you have to do is to get voluntarily compliance out of a bunch of people who have already proven that they will not voluntarily comply with the rules of society. so piece of cake. we're in a position where we can get to a very large degree of voluntarily compliance out of these people. actually, the challenge of that is rewarding. >> some challenges, like those presented by joel laha, can take longer to resolve than others. >> joe doesn't come across as a dangerous guy. he is respectful to the officers, but it's not one of those guys i would trust, you know? he is definitely a dangerous individual. especially on the street and within his gang world. you wouldn't want to turn your back on him. >> leaha was recen

the blood sample from the independent lab had been drawn from price when he was in custody at the county jail. a technician checked his identification, took his blood and wrote the inmate's name on the vial containing his blood. >> there is a print that goes with the sample. the individual who gave this blood obviously put their fingerprint on this vial. >> so prison officials compared the print from the vial to chad price's print. >> the expert said that's not chad price's fingerprint on the vial. great. the next step. whose print is it? >> the unknown print was run through afis, or the automatic fingerprint identification system and there was a hit. the print belonged to 36-year-old derek perry. >> derek perry was another inmate being detained on unrelated charged. in each pod there are 50 or 60 inmates. two jailhouse informants told prison officials how they switched the dna samples. >> they witnessed and have personal knowledge of the conspiracy to witch arm bands before the blood sample. >> the medical staff does not look at faces. they don't know chad price from derek perry. they call t

clear as you make it up to the 24 junction. >> a gas explosion as a jail if pensacola has killed two and injured 150 inmates and correctional officers. a blast in the countynmates in the jail that was flooded tuesday and wednesday because of storms and they are vetting if it was related. >> our hot spell has firefighters on alert. antioch firefighters battled a fast-moving grass fire this morning. amy hollyfield is in antioch with more on that story. amy? >> can you believe we are talking about the fire over overnight. three acres burned in antioch at 12:35. it did not reach any structures. no one was hurt. this is what they are worried about: all over the bay area. it

just outside of downtown is the county's legal district, home to its courthouses and the bergen county jail. >> it's a state-of-the-art facility. we currently have 277 sworn officers as well as 58 civilians. >> close to 900 male and female inmates. most have only been charged with crimes and are awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. >> we in the belly of the beast. >> many of those cases are resolved within days, but others can drag on for years. the challenge for those inmates is learning how to cope with monotony and confinement, fear and anxiety. [ screaming ] >> some meet the challenge better than others. >> help me! >> inside one of the jail's high-security, inmate paul dixon is having a difficult time. >> paul. nobody is hurting you. just put your happens through so we can get you out of here. >> dixon is naked in what is known as a single person special management cell. he was placed there earlier in the day due to erratic behavior. his clothes were replaced with a tear-proof gown to prevent self-injury or suicide. >> put your gown on. >> originally he was in a mental hea

this is the kent county jail. while some are convicted, most of the thousand men and women here, are only charged with crimes and waiting trial for the resolution of their cases. >> do the crime, pay the time. you know? >> it's not the ideal setting in which to make friends. some do. jeremy feels like an outcast. >> jeremy is the model inmate. very quiet. never gets into trouble. when i'm on, he's generally in his cell and if he does come out of the cell, he comes and sits quietly. >> i don't consider anybody here friends. i'd rather be in here than out there with some of those people sometimes, because there's a lot of negative energy out there. there's not very many people that talk to me in here because i'm gay. >> merithew says he encounters too many attitudes. like that have reuben flores. >> you want to be homosexual, that's your business. god don't like homosexuals. that's something against nature. if want to do it, go ahead, but it's not right. >> the inmates in his unit are not always welcoming of homosexu

make sure you -- >> she they ride behind the razor wire topped fences and brick walls at the kent county jailmost of the inmates here are accused of crimes that are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. they trade street clothes for jail uniforms and leave personal possessions, including crash and jewelry in sealed bags that will be stored until their release. a minor exception was made for brian. >> the guy at the front when he was doing patdowns, hey, we had a long discussion about it. he told me my tongue ring has to come out. i'm, like, it doesn't come out. >> if they go to cut it, they'll end up cutting my tongue because it's a short barbell. never mind. we're going to leave it be. >> he was allowed to keep one other piece considered too embedded to safely remove. >> it doesn't harm anybody, and it stays up my nose. the guard said just keep it up in my nose. i did that and put it back in, and leave it be. >> he is serving a six-month sentence at kent county for aggravated domestic violence. it's the second time he has been convicted and served time for assaulting his girlfrien

help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. . >> during our extended stay shoot at the suffolk county jail in boston, three inmates preselectled by jail staff were about to introduce themselves to four young men, participating in the jail break program. >> the 12-year-old in cell one is here for cutting his teacher. >> water up, man? what's up? how old are you? >> we have two fireworks in school. >> what are you here for? >> marijuana in three. >> and marijuana in four. >> this is a game? you think this is a game, huh? >> one if four is 16. birthday next month. he is a year away from being if here. >> stealing money and spokeing weed is going to ends you in jail. either or. >> take your sneakers off right now, mother, get going tough guy. >> they take their shoes away. you come to jail, you will lose your shoes. >> get these sneakers off. >> put your hands up, are you gang bank? >> spending your mother's money on weed? what are you trooi crying for? whiep i woo they smile after your face. >> why are you crying now? boggys drinking down your face. >> what does it feel like? >> i don't know.

. >> i find you in contempt. 30 days in the county jail. >> okay. >> our whole system depends on respector our judges and their orders. when there is disrespect the judge has to do something meaningful. >> 30 days in the county jail. >> after spending four nights in county jail, soto is once again facing the judge and this time she's not laughing. soto's private attorney, steven h. rosen has filed a motion to have the criminal contempt charge dropped. >> mr. rosen, miss soto. >> stand up. >> as you know -- >> you may sit down. >> thank you. >> i want you to understand that there is case law that is specifically says that what you did, flipping the finger and what you said -- i'm. >> i'm sorry. >> listen, do not say a word. >> i just. >> okay. >> flipping the finger and what you said is contemptuous language. contemptuous behavior. you get contempt. that is with you the rest of your life. >> now it's the attorney's tourn need soto's case. >> her judgment on that day was impaired by her ingestion of drugs and alcohol prior to her coming to your courtroom. that impairment, even though i don

. >> anthony thomas is finally subdued and cuffed and taken to the lorain county jail. >> mr. homas came into the department on a contempt of court charge, which is a low-grade misdemeanor. he left our department with a felony assaulting an officer charge. all when he was going to be released on a summons for the first one. >> thomas pleads guilty to assault and obstructing official business. he is convicted and sentenced to time served, plus three years probation. thomas also has to undergo psychological evaluation and treatment. officer whit sustains minor injuries. >> we do not have time to be afraid. we react. >>> coming up, a deputy gets taken for a ride across a busy highway. >> my life was flashing before my eyes. >>> and, later, choreographed chaos in a prison yard. >> just like that. somebody gives somebody a cue, and it's people chasing other people with knives. >> when "caught on camera: inmates and outlaws" continues. (mother vo) when i was pregnant... i got more advice than i knew what to do with. what i needed was information i could trust on how to take care of m

. >> when i was booked into the county jail, they put me in a block with some of the guys i got into banging in the county trying to survive and got stabbed in the eye with an ink pen. >> i call him the pirate. >> this patch, it's not me, you know what i'm saying? it may look like, damn, you're tough [ bleep ] but we're good guys. i've got to be real, whatever it is. >> you know what i'm saying? talking about my home girl. i've been writing about it in this song. >> she was a cripette but she was on cocaine and she was supposed to turn a trick with a guy for $20. and she walked. and she refused to do it and he cut her throat. [ bleep ]. so i gave it some deep thought and i came up with the song, "baby butterfly." it's going to be a masterpiece. hopefully we can continue to stay focused and positive, we can make it happen when we get home. >> the harsh reality that anthony is serving life without parole hasn't dampered his dream to record his music. >> i'm going to make you scream tonight, boy. you're going to like it tonight, boy. >> there are times i wake up thinking about dying in

ed lavandera is live outside the escambia county jail. orning, ed. >> reporter: good morning, carol. well, authorities here and investigators are trying to figure out if this explosion was caused by flooding. part of the jail that you see behind me did take in some water. you can see some of the damage and the shockwaves that were sent through this building and how some of that building has already buckled because of the shockwaves from this explosion. atf investigators, state fire marshal are looking into this, trying to figure out. we've seen damage all the way to the backside of this building. several stories up. the sheer force of this was rather impressive last night. but this is an area that took on quite amount of rain. some 20 inches of rain fell throughout parts of had region in 24 hours. at some point there was five inches of rain falling in just one hour. we saw neighborhoods that were swept away. and roadways that were swept away because of these floodwaters. you saw the scenic highway, which was just on the eastern edge of the

right now we don't have an official cause but we are told there was severe flooding at the county jail leading up to the explosion. we're also told that city council members have been told that a preliminary investigation revealed that it might have been a gas leak in the jail laundry room that prompted this explosion. now, here's where it gets confusing. the sheriff says three inmates possibly unaccounted for. they may be among the dead and since investigators haven't been able to go into the building, have not been discovered yet. they may have escaped or they may be in the hospital and not have been counted yet. that's the focus of the investigation. 600 people were at the jail at the time. the injured include both. the two dead are inmates. their families are being notified of what has happened. for now the investigation still a lot of fallout from this very violent storm. a lot of cleanup and unanswered questions. back to you. >> nbc's sara dalloff, thank you very much. >>> after that botched execution in oklahoma now other states are forced to take a second look at how they deal

>> but at the orange county jail we discovered an entire housing unit where low profile seemed in short supply. it's official name was mod q but others preferred to call it the drama mod. >> this sector here houses protective custody inmates that are homosexuals and they have to be separated from the jail population for various reasons. >> i love you, baby. >> it's mainly to protect them from the rest of the population. >> mod q is different because did you find men dressed as women or men with breast implants, that looks like women. it was loud and there was girly screams. >> working out. >> the drama is exactly what you could expect of young people without a solution to their problems. just run around like nuts. >> a lot of drama in mod q, there's fighting and there's flirting and there's yelling. >> come here. >> it gets overwhelming to the point when you leave the mod, it's just like draining. like wow. we need to take a little break for a little while and process that. >> transgender inmate cortez who calls himself alexis not only sought attention from other inmates -- >> yeah. >>

breaking overnight from pensacola, an apparent gas explosion leaving about 100 prisoners hurt at the county jail. the building partially collapsed. now, it is not clear at this point if the weather was responsible, but officials do say the jail did suffer significant flooding. >>> breaking news also in maryland. evacuations under way right now in laurel, maryland, after a dam opened, leaking thousands of gallons of water. and take a look. this is from baltimore. that's a sinkhole, a sinkhole that swallowed up several cars. >> wow. >> that's right. several homes nearby had to be evacuated, but there were no injuries reported. and this is why we always say don't drive through water? look at this. this guy had to be rescued after his suv got stuck in 4 feet of water near bowie, maryland. he's okay, but if you see standing water, don't do what he did. find another way to get around the flood. a line of cars this morning on route 3 in new jersey drove right into some standing water. a whole bunch of people stranded this morning on there, or late last night going home in their commute. >> all kinds of

a blast in the county jail book ing facility with 600 inmates in the jail that was flooded tuesday and wednesday because of storms and they are vetting if it was related. >> our hot spell has firefighters on alert. antioch firefighters battled a fast-moving grass fire this morning. amy hollyfield is in antioch with more on that story. amy? >> can you believe we are talking about the fire over overnight. three acres burned in antioch at 12:35. it did not reach any structures. no one was hurt. this is what they are worried about: all over the bay area. it is dry. from years of drought and not enough rain so the firefighters are high alert and cal fire have added crews earlier than normal. >> we did get rain this week but don't be fooled it is still very dry. >> i can see the patches of yellow and it is changing and we do not even have the wind. this is just height. >> firefighters are stressing the response of defensible space around your home and some are working on that now. it could feel early. today is the first day of may but firefighters say it is smart and it will be a long season

children that don't belong there and drop out of high school if you've gone to 0 county jail and seen which we did at the county jail in san bruno for me up 60 percent of those inmates went 0 our school. so why we're asking that question is because as commissioners it is socially responsible to ask not meant to be offense or disrespect our work it's at the reality of a district. that has been systematically raciest for a long time time we question not to offend you but to make it better for our children i know from speaking to many parents in the workshops most of the people in color.org african-american and latino he parents. i would go to out to the bay area and every parent in the i n had not one child with the i p they were talking about how they were treated as black parents and latino telling me their experience which is different than some of the experiences of other parents we have to keep in mind when we serve the captioners or children's it's how we respect the parents and i know you'll agree we hear many complaints about how black parents are treated and when we have an overidentificatioin of

two inmates at the county jail in pensacola were killed by a gas explosion. more than 180 others hurt. officials say the facility was flooded with 2 feet of water when the blast ripped through the building. and look at this. [ screaming ] >> oh, my god! >> oh, my god. [ screaming ] >> i do not think i've ever seen anything like that. >> that's in baltimore. that's, like, right there in baltimore. >> that is incredible video of a retaining wall collapsing, a landslide that really just swallowed up ten cars and that retaining wall. it dropped them on to railroad tracks below. that was in a baltimore neighborhood. wow! that city is suffering its worst flooding in decades. >> i can hardly believe those pictures. flooding also a big problem in parts of pennsylvania. so much rain fell. the schuylkill river actually crested higher than it did during hurricane irene and superstorm sandy. >>> more grim news in mississippi. the death toll in that state from this week's tornadoes rising to 14 with the discovery of the body of a missing boy. and we're getting new images f

overnight from pensacola, an apparent gas explosion leaving about 100 prisoners and officers hurt at the county jail. the building partially collapsed. not clear at this point if the weather was responsible, but officials say, john, that the jail did suffer significant flooding. >>> evacuations under way right now in laurel, maryland, after a dam opened, leaking thousands of gallons of water. i want you to take a look at this nearby in baltimore. that's a sinkhole that just swallowed up cars. several nearby homes had to be evacuated. luckily, amazingly, no injuries were reported. and i want to take a look at this. this is why everyone says do not drive through standing water. this man had to be rescued after his suv got stuck in about 4 feet of water near bowie, maryland. he is okay, but as you can see, a mess there. people there had to go in and rescue him. >> yeah, if the water's standing, please, do not drive through it. >>> the same situation on the other side of the potomac in virginia. the water wasn't quite as high in alexandria, near the capital, but the risk of flooding still high this morn

. >> the blast happened at the county jail last night. some people smelled gas and heard an explosion. >> about 600 inmates at the time of the explosion. >> given a combination of lethal drugs. >> started convulsing violently. >> a request made to stay the execution. a bed of an apparent heart attack. a fundamental standard in this country. >> i think everyone would recognize that this case fell short. >> issued a 14 day stay of execution. >> an investigation into the conclusion. sources say he used heroin shortly after she dead. >> the daughter of the british rocker was found dead by her husband at the seventh. >> >> and give it a reportedly showed him smoking crack. >> what appears to be the basement. >> the drug dealer who has a video says he is selling it for least six years. he admits he has an alcohol problem that makes and if they're responsible. >> >> charge with deliberate homicide. >> prosecutors say, and his roommates set a trap hoping to catch burglars. this is standard ground does not apply because deadly force was not necessa

could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >>> during our extended stay at the suffolk county jail to the cameras. >> that's all i got. >> seemed determined to make a lasting impression on us. we were also with bloodworth with his life reached a major turning point. he accepted a plea deal on the armed robbery and battery charges and sentenced to two and a half years. >> all right. >> we followed him from the suffolk county jail facility for pretrial detainees to the nearby house of correction where he would serve his sentence. >> school these young boys. >> our next interview with bloodworth was more serious. he had told us earlier that the victim of this crime was a man but later we discovered that wasn't true. >> the police said you robbed a woman. what was the deal? >> that don't look good. makes me look like a sucker. when you hear someone rob a female, they say, really? you're that much of a could ywa you have to rob a woman? >> after the robbery they were quickly apprehended but for bloodworth, the arresting officer added ultimate insult. >> stepped on my new white adidas, i

two inmates at the county jail in pensacola were killed by a gas explosion. r 180 others were hurt. officials say the facility was flooded with 2 feet of water when the blast ripped through the building. and then you have to take a look at this. [ screaming ] >> oh, my god! >> the whole thing! [ screaming ] >> that is unbelievable. incredible video of a landslide swallowing up ten cars and a retaining wall, then dropping it all on to railroad tracks below. this is right in the middle of a baltimore neighborhood. that city suffering its worst flooding in decades. it happened so slowly. i can't believe it! >> whoever's shooting it showing a huge amount of faith that the rest of the road will not fall in there. >> wow. >> we could loop that for the next 45 minutes or move on to this. >>> flooding is also a big problem in parts of pennsylvania. so much rain fell in the schuylkill river that it actually crested higher than it did during hurricane irene or superstorm sandy. >>> more grim news in mississippi. the death toll in that state from this week's tornadoes no

barbara moon met with jean in the county jail. >> she was a very broken woman, shaking her hands.e believed her. >> jean's church began to raise money for her bail. jean's family insisted that her marriage to jim was a happy one. jim's daughter from a previous marriage agreed. >> i was glad he met somebody and that he was happy and that he wasn't going to be alone. >> any time you seen jim, you seen jean. seen one, you seen both of them. they went everywhere together. >> and jean had no financial motive. jim's life insurance amounted to less than $40,000. local prosecutors were convinced this was an open and shut case. >> the theory of show saw the opportunity to get rid of him and poured it and lit it and then made it seem or tried to tell everyone that it was an accident. >> the defense asked john lantini, a nationally known fire investigator, investigator, for his opinion. >> with respect to the quality of the investigation, it ranks up there with the worst i've seen, and i've seen a last of bad fire investigations in my day. this was over the top. >> local investigators suspec

. >> reporter: brown is booked in the county jail in martinez. reporting live in brentwood, i'm joe vasquez, kpix5. >>> we have breaking news in salinas now, hundreds of people are rioting in the street. now the court record mushily gathered to protest this. police shot and killed a man in this same spot yesterday. they say he was armed with a pair of gardening shears. they said they had to shoot after efforts to taze the man tailed. when we learn anything else tonight about the riot, we will stay on top of it and let you know. >>> tonight, we have this surveillance video of a gunman barging into a san jose liquor store and got really nasty. andria borba has more. >> reporter: the armed robbery at clive's liquors happened may 9. it was all caught on video. the robbery starts with an expletive and only gets worse from there. with the butt of a shotgun bashed into a man's face and customers forced to the ground. >> now! now! down! >> reporter: the suspect demands cash from the clerk. goes to the back of the store, and then again to the front. >> put

chief >> san francisco sheriff's department trying to make mother's day easier for inmates at the county jailere are 121 women incarcerated at county jail two. more than half of moms the jail hosted a dance and musical for incarcerated moms. >> i make sure to send objects home to know mommy is still around, not physically but still there. >> san francisco is on the cutting edge of initiatives to help women in jail maintain family bonds including stations for pumping breast milk as well as visitation hours. >> we've heard from proestors and pundits we continue to await president obama's remarks from the fairmont we hope to hear from him, shortly. >> earthquake shook the pacific coast off mexico today. close to where the last one hit >> a bay area civil rights group stands to profit from the racist rants of l.a. clippers owner donald sterling. stay with us. >>> president obama is raising a couple million dollars today to fund campaigns of other democratic candidates in the upcoming elections he should be arriving any moment. >> reporter: that is very true. cars behind me just started moving and

chief >> san francisco sheriff's department trying to make mother's day easier for inmates at the county jailthere are 121 women incarcerated at county jail two. more than half of moms the jail hosted a dance and musical for incarcerated moms. >> i make sure to send objects home to know mommy is still around, not physically but still there. >> san francisco is on the cutting edge of initiatives to help women in jail maintain family bonds including stations for pumping breast milk as well as visitation hours. >> we've heard from proestors and pundits we continue to await president obama's remarks from the fairmont we hope to hear from him, shortly. >> earthquake shook the pacific coast off mexico today. close to where the last one hit >> a bay area civil rights group stands to profit from the racist rants of l.a. clippers owner donald sterling. stay with us. things on purpose? youe not a color found nature. there's nothing wrong with tha. i can hear your arteries clogging. ok. no. this is tap water. i can't let you buy this. oh. crystal geyser please. crystal geyser. bottled at the mountain so

draw up or write his autobiography, detailing his involvement with the gangs from the street to the county jailsthe prisons, and back out to the street. anything he's been involved in, anything he's witnessed. everything. right now there's quite a few inmates that are dropping out. you know, they're realizing there's no future in these gangs. >> because gang dropouts become immediate targets to the former gang, the debrief process must occur in secret. usually an inmate will pass a kite to the officers who will remove the inmate from their cell under the guise of something like a medical checkup. >> you want to disassociate yourself -- >> to be honest, i got tired of all the corruption. i seen a lot of bad calls and innocent people getting hurt. and seeing too many people doing things they didn't want to do, being forced to do. it's like the higher you go up, the more you see. >> the debrief process takes months, sometimes even years. because the igi must verify the truth of an inmate's autobiography. >> for myself, back in 2001, when i was in county jail, they ordered me to hit my own uncle bec

we just told you about the explosion at the county jail in florida. e just being told in a news bull continue say officials located three of the inmates who were missing. however the alert does not say whether they are alive. we'll get you more information as soon as it becomes available. >> we're also getting new details about delays in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. nearly two months after the plane went missing the malaysian government released a preliminary report on the investigation. >>> our first look inside the south korean ferry as the ship was beginning to tip. some of the high school students onboard started wondering whether they would survive. a warning, it's not eachy to watch. [ female announcer ] there's a gap out there. ♪ that's keeping you apart from the healthcare you deserve. ♪ but if healthcare changes... ♪ ...if it becomes simpler... the gap begins to close. ♪ when frustration and paperwork decrease... when doctors are better connected... when grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home... ♪ ...the gap clos

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a few miles from downtown is the kent county jail. >> people ask me all the time when i'm out there in the world, who you got in jail. i always tell them well, we've got your family members, your neighbors, your co-workers. >> on any given day, about a thousand men and women are incarcerated here. >> i want you guys on your bunks. time for head count. i need your id. >> while some are convicted, most are only accused of crimes and awaiting trial or the resolution of their case zbls you've got the people standing behind you in line at the grocery store, people handing the food out at the drive through, those are the people we have in jail. >> a life in the sack. >> a few years earlier may have been a surprise to local residents to see brandy knight inside the jail. they might have remembered her as a popular secretary at a nearby elementary school. >> many of the people that knew me from school, if any of them would see me now they would know something is seriously wrong. two years ago i started smoking crack and i resigned from my job and lost both my daughters, started living on the s

withdraws in the county jail were the first time and i said i am done with this. i don't care if this kills me. it was a risk and that is when i left the gang life. i decided i'm not going to be this anymore. it took me another year to get better at it. but it was an important decision to make on my own. not that my mentor, or family or anybody else made it. i made it on my own against the gang structure and chains i put myself in and that spider web i was caught in. i had to make the decision to break the chain and web. it worked. it may not work for others. i was lucky that things came in in such a way that they corresponded with my desires. i have to thank my mentor. he had another real name but i have to thank him for standing by and guiding me because i needed one person to see who i was. >> host: luis rodriguez, when you leave a gang do you sneak out? >> guest: you don't usually leave a gang because it is your neighborhood. i didn't get jumped out. i wanted to come back and change it and thought let's make this a revolutionary group. i thought we are all in