the l.a. county jail. the hundreds of millions, overcrowding continues to be a growing concern. >> as you can see, i've got concrete bars. you know, i don't have any place to expand. i can't make another cell. that's the achilles heel of jail systems everywhere, is how many inmates you have. that's your clients. >> the los angeles county jail has a higher inmate to guard ratio than any other county jail in the country. sheriff's deputies have to deal with the daily threat of getting stabbed, having feces thrown at them, and even contracting aids. for some deputies the stress is too much to handle. >> we've had guys come in just a day, day or two, and they look around and they're like i'm out of here. they'll give us the keys, and they won't even say they're out of here. next day we'll come in and they'll be gone. i'll go down and check it out. they'll be like, yeah, he resigned or -- because this is where you actually figure out if you really want to do this or not. >> five minutes. get ready. >> with thei

nature at its most delicious. >>> at the suffolk county jail in boston, the new class of 40 cadets areo get their first experience of direct inmate interaction as part of their training to become jail deputies. among them are kareem mallard abrianna spagnolli. >> we're going to go down to the 2-2 unit for a shakedown. a total of 34 cells. make sure you have your protective gloves on and verbalize what you want from these people. inmates will only allow you to do what they're allowed to do. if there's any issues, contact one of us. if there's any questions, contact one of us. is that clear? questions? >> sir, yes, sir. >> all right. >> a shakedown is a little bit different from a room search whereas you actually handcuff the inmate, bring them out of the room, search the room with a three-person team. >> forward, march. >> and then at the end of it, they get stripped search and placed back inside their room so you can be virtually assured the room is clean. >> sir, stand up, please. >> hands behind your back, palms up. >> separate your feet, sir. >> behind your back. >> looking for nuis

the issue. if you don't, they will. it's a jail thing. >> 16 months ago, esdale was sentenc convicted of possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years at the house of correction, a separate jail facility for convicted inmates serving 2 1/2 years or less. due to multiple fights, he spent the first 13 months in segregation, but even under those restrictions he was still a significant disciplinary problem. >> daniel has gotten into many fights since he's been here. he's been involved in about ten fights. there are a lot of fights that he has actually asked or called to happen. so he's been involved in a lot more behind the scenes than he's actually been involved in. >> if someone is arguing with a c.o., i'll be in the background amping them up. just, you know, plooep like that. sometimes i like when people like. i like all that. >> why? >> kront kni don't know, it's j fun to me. i just enjoy it. i like all the commotion and stuff like that. >> while esdale thrives on commotion outside his cell, inside is a shrine to order. >> tha

and four miles away, the orient road jail has room for 1,700. also the site of intake, where men and women are processed into the jail. >> line up along the wall here. >> unlike prison, where all the inmates are convicted, the majority of jail inmates have only been charged with the crime and are awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. but these days, many of them first arrive in a similar state. >> we are seeing more and more men and women arrive in our doors in a state of opiate withdrawal. it's not a black issue, a white issue, a hispanic issue, a young issue or an old issue. it's not a rich issue or a poor issue. it crosses all lines. people feel it's okay to eat the stuff like candy because a doctor gave it to them. these irresponsible physicians have legalized it in many people's eyes. >> while some overprescribing doctors might be at the root of tampa's drug problem, once the pills reach the street, people like jessica come into play. >> when you have an addiction, you're going to get it. it doesn't matter if you get it from a d

jail. >> but still, i love it. i guess that's the addiction. that's why they call it a disease i guess. >> now they face another consequence. a potentially fatal one. >> i wake up at night gasping for breath thinking about it. >> and in a jail where drugs have led to the arrest of many of the inmates, officials add a new member to their corrections staff. >>> located in the heart of tampa, florida, is its historic cigar manufacturing center, ybor city. but for too many in tampa, guilty pleasures go far beyond hand rolled cigars. as in other big cities, drug abuse has taken its toll here. it leads addicts to commit far more serious crimes. often resulting in extended stays at tampa's hillsborough county jail. >> one behind the other. single file line. hug the wall. >> colonel jim previtera is in charge of all operations and the nearly 3,000 inmates housed in the county's two jail facilities. >> i feel pretty safe in telling you if you went into any given pod here and you got every inmate to honestly answer the question of how substance abuse impa

one of two facilities that comprise the jail system. they're housed on separate floors but that doesn't stop them from finding ways to communicate. >> it's 192, we get to talk to the guys downstairs. >> how do you talk to them? >> through the toilets. we clear them out and yell through the pipes. you could do it this way which people laugh at all the time. >> what are you doing? >> i'm plunging the toilet with my ass. >> because you can't talk to them unless it's clear so you got to get all the water out. >> yo! >> yeah, say hi. >> hello! this is the only way they'll do an interview. >> this is the only way they'll do an interview. >> life for most inmates at the suffolk county jail is anything but fun and games. inside the jail's nashua street facility is a housing unit for those inmates whose charges have given them a reputation among other inmates. a reputation that could result in grave consequences. >> special housing unit, what we call the shu is typically what most people refer to as pc, protective custody unit, the people who go

the jail's medical staff has helped stabilize his condition with medication. >> i was always the goodhed my brother go in and out of jail and prison and i was like, i'll never let that happen to me. i'm going to go to high school and go to the military. i never thought it would have happened, i'd never be here in lockdown. i wish that would never happen. i can't beat myself up on it. i got to keep going because that's all i got is myself. as long as i keep myself up, then i can be there for my mom. >> burden's mother struggles to understand how her son's life has unraveled. >> this used to be like "why you got in trouble?" she doesn't understand about schizophrenoform. >> burden and his mother correspond through letters. >> how important are these letters to you? >> real important. the relationship between me and my mom is getting better. "i got your letter january the 5th. i pray every day court takes it easy on you. that's why i call god. you better call him, too, thriller." she calls me thriller when i was a little kid, the neighborhood called me thriller because of michael jackson

located just outside downtown is a key landmark in that battle, the suffolk county jail. >> the jaila maximum security facility, it holds anyone who is arrested and held on a bail they can't make. that could be someone charged with shoplifting and it is very frequently someone charged with homicide. >> unlike prison where all inmates have been convicted and sentenced, most jail inmates have only been charged with crimes and are innocent until proven guilty. suffolk county has an average daily population of 700 such detainees, along with nearly 2,000 other inmates who have been convicted and are serving short sentences. >> we're the largest sheriff's department in the northeast. so we're moving a lot of people in and out of here and trying to do a lot with them in the relatively short period of time we have them. the people who get that job done every single day, do a remarkable job. >> in some units, a lone officer supervises inmates, like a beat cop on the streets, it allows him to build rapport and actually has been proven to reduce fighting. >> i'll talk to you later. >> but in ja

they all begin the incarceration in the jail's intake department. t the crimes they're associated with range from horrific to petty and everything in between. >> i'm very photogenic. >> reporter: deandre barnes was arrested on charges of cocaine and marijuana possession with intent to sell. he plans to plead not guilty. >> melissa, who was that? >> my baby mama. >> your baby mama. you got that drama? >> if he seems at ease here that might be because this is his third stay at hillsborough county. >> slide all the way back. >> barnes is already familiar with the full-body scan chairs and facial scanners used to detect weapons or other contra banned that might be hid inside body cavities. >> barnes. >> i know you're barnes. >> go ahead, sir. welcome back. >> i said i wasn't gonna come back and i'm back. i let myself down. >> yeah, it still looks the same. i guess i'll make my bed up. >> though barnes has been arrested a half dozen times, the charges haven't always struck. he only has one prior conviction for obstructing a law enforcement officer. >> com

he won't let me talk to them on the phone in jail. >> despite the pain, minacapelli has found room forlaughter in jail, particularly with her cellmate cindy archer. >> the first day we came in, we laughed. the whole entire night. >> yeah, we did. >> so hard she was on the floor rolling. >> yeah. i was against the wall slapping the wall, everything. i haven't laughed so hard in my life like that. >> like minacapelli, archer also struggled with addictions to heroin and cocaine. she's currently serving one year for prostitution. i was street walking. i would go there and you know, jump in the car, get the money. but usually i would rob the guys. i would take the money out of their wallet, put the wallet back in, because they didn't even know. i know how to do it. you know whey mean? grateful i'm not dead by that, but that's how i got my money. when you're high, all you want to do is get another hit. if you're dope sit, you need to if you're dope sick, you've got to get money to get more dope because your body's aching for it, and that's disgusting. had i think about it now, yeah, i'd love

many of them arrive here at the main jail, also known as the pretrial detention center. >> the main jail is considered the hub because it's right next to the court building. and all of the inmates that go to court are staged at the pretrial detention center where we have a bridge that connects with the courthouse. >> listen, up listen up. >> built in 1959, the detention center is the oldest of the miami-dade facilities and also the busiest. in fact, for the officers' own safety, the jail has asked that we only reveal their last names. >> the biggest challenge in intake is we don't know what we're facing until they come through that door. we don't know if the person is very combative, if they are high on drugs, if they are going to come through and fight a bunch of people. >> we had superman come in one day, a guy dressed in a superman suit. he was upset, visibly upset because they took his cape. fortunately we had enough officers here with experience to talk with him and diffuse the situation. >> after being checked for weapons and contraband, inmates wait in a holding cell. many of the

food rarely earns praise from its critics and the hillsborough county jail in tampa has more than 3,000 of them secured within its confines. >> the food is crappy. >> the food is horrible. >> it is garbage. the food is, like, just enough to get you by. >> i think that the food tastes reasonably good. >> despite the complaints, the man in charge of the jail's kitchen takes great pride in the nearly 4 million meals prepared each year. >> we make up 11,000 meals a day and a 28-day cycle menu with a variety for inmates. this is our breakfast meal for tomorrow. it his a biscuit, a one ounce slice of bologna, comes with cereal, with a carton of milk and a vitamin enriched fortified beverage that they're served with breakfast, lunch and dinner. we have to serve nutritious meals. they have to leave here in better health than when they came here. >> when you come up, last name and bunk number. >> 71. >> and our last menu design we decided to make this a heart-healthy menu. it's the only jail in florida that i know of that does a heart-healthy menu. >> one of the inma

. >> an inmate with an imaginary friend proves to be a challenge for the jail. >> i was doing the beating, jimmy was doing the talking. [ bleep ] him up. smashed him. smashed him out. >> and a shocking act lands his sister in the jail. as well. >> blood was all in my face, my eyes my hands and my dress. i never seen blood gush like that in my life. >> while boston, massachusetts, maintains its colonial past, it's also ranked as one of the world's leading metropolitan areas for education and innovation. in the heart of downtown, however, is a reminder that not every one of its residents is on the right track. >> there are, especially at the county level, very significant portion of our population of people who simply can't get out of their own way. mostly they are self-destructive but they commit crimes and hurt people in the process but their lives can be different and there can be a change made. >> the suffolk county jail is often the first stop for bostonians who find themselves under arrest. male inmates who are awaiting trial and have yet to make bail are detained at the nashua street

hit the [ bleep ] close to you. that's what happens in jail. you know? ll awaiting trial on several charges, including possession of a firearm and assault and battery on a police officer, peters takes the long view when it comes to his future. >> i don't want to waste my life. that comes with the game. it's like it's time-out. you on bench right now. this is all game. i'm on the bench, i'm not in the game. but my time will be up, coach put me back in the game and time to get back out there. you know? >> now the closest peters gets to the game on the outside is receiving mail on the inside. >> this is my baby's mother and this is straight hate mail. i won't even read this. yeah. >> is there anything about your son in there? >> no, this is about some [ bleep ] i did on the streets. i mean, it ain't nothing to move me too much. it don't bother me. if they're that mad you want to sit down and take 15, 20 minutes out your day to write me, obviously you thinking about me. so i'm not forgotten. as long as i'm not forgotten, i'm cool. that's when you get no mail

hit the [ bleep ], and [ bleep ] happens in jail, you know? till awaiting trial on several charges, including possession of a firearm and assault and battery on a police officer, peters takes the long view when it comes to his future. >> i wouldn't say i'm wasting my life here. this is the [ bleep ] that comes along with the game. it's like, time out. you're on the bench right now. this is all a game. i'm on the bench right now. i'm not in the game. but, you know what i'm saying, my time will be up, coach will put me back in the game, and it's time to get back out there, with you know? >> now the closest peters gets to the game on the outside is receiving mail on the inside. >> this is from my baby's mother, and this is straight hate mail, so i won't even read this. but, yeah, [ bleep ]. >> anything about your son in there? >> nah, this is about some [ bleep ] i did on the streets. i mean, it ain't nothing. i don't really let it move me too much. it don't bother me. if you're that mad and you want to take 15, 20 minutes out of your day to write

i--25 years running programs in the jails. i currently work with the male survivors and perpetrators of domestic violence. there is the reason why the state set up a 52-week programs. it really requires a complete belief system change to stop violating yourself and others. that is just the very beginning. and that is just the very beginning, 52 weeks. it is not for nothing that our formally esteemed sheriff, michael hennessey, had a rolule that you had to be arrests-free and off a probation to enter the jail. that is because people need to heal, make restoration, and people need time to make some change. i find it very ironic that the sheriff is someone who would basically not be allowed to enter the jail because of the actions he has taken. so, while i believe in redemption and hope for the redemption for ross and his family, i do not believe he can currently served as sheriff. thank you. >> hello, members of the commission. my name is susan loftus, a native san franciscan and mother of three. as serve as a prosecutor in san f

the young victim. >> a plan to expand a jail facility. the critical vote that will take place later this morning. >> we have a fire. >> i don't know what that means, but okay. >> 911 tapes revealing the contusion in the critical minutes of the chevron refinery fire. mornings at 2 2 begins right now. >> well, good morning. it's thursday, august 9th. we're following developing news in oakland where power lines are down and crews are still trying to get crews going again. this is all near a crash. a vehicle ran into a power pole and then careened into a fire hydrant sheering it off and sending water gushing into the air. channel 2 reporter is on 81st 81st avenue to bring you the latest information. tara? >> well, another pg&e crew is on its way. they did restore power to a nearby bakery, but they still are the to have store power to about 59 customers still. fishes tell us all but three customers should have electricity again. it affected more than 650 customers around the area of san fernando boulevard. a car smashed into a light pole. it to

the al khalifa family which runs bahrain very worried look at the. jail. for tweeting karma and the regime in other words there is no free speech in bahrain if there is a kangaroo court system in bahrain it is a family ron government it is not being no one can tell really in the twenty first century. also i have a program return to their roots. turkey doesn't need a euro but it's europe needs turkey is on the verge of in a few years you will see that. planetary living in the e.u. are packing their bags and heading home in search of better opportunities story coming your way in a couple of minutes also. joining us from moscow's main mosque where people celebrate the most sacred days in the muslim holy cow ito. the decision of a russian court to jail the three members of punk band pussy riot for two years has split society and provoked a massive international reaction the group's anti porton stunt of the country's main orthodox cathedral was ruled to be hold as a motivated by religious hatred dozens of people have been detained during a protest both for and a

and the d.c. jail is going digital replacing face to face visits with video chat but is this a good idea it's a limited human interaction for inmates who haven't yet been convicted of a crime. it is monday august thirteenth ten pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our team we are following some breaking news tonight we're awaiting that announcement from the president of ecuador rafael correia and whether he'll grant wiki leaks founder julian assange asylum in his country as you may remember assad has been staying inside the ecuadorian embassy in london for the last two months awaiting the decision. which korea said he would make after the olympic games were finished caray is expected to speak any moment he may have started already and we just want to let you know that we will be keeping you posted on this decision just as a refresher as songes the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks which has been behind the releasing of thousands of classified documents as well as the

i find it very ironic that the sheriff is someone who would basically not be allowed to enter the jail because of the actions he has taken. so, while i believe in redemption and hope for the redemption for ross and his family, i do not believe he can currently served as sheriff. thank you. >> hello, members of the commission. my name is susan loftus, a native san franciscan and mother of three. as serve as a prosecutor in san francisco and the domestic violence unit. there is one thing i really want to convey. i think something is really at stake in this conversation. i have watched it on mine and sat in the hearings. we have made tremendous progress with the criminal justice community on how we address domestic violence. we've done better at listening to victims and protecting them in the wake of tragedies and done better at healing batterers. no one wants a batterer to continue to batter. but as a misdemeanor and domestic violence prosecutor i have watched men convicted of a misdemeanor push or slap, just because it was not in the papers does not mean we never prosecuted pushes or sl

and the d.c. jail is going digital replacing face to face visit with video chats but is this a good idea to to limit humor it when interaction for inmates who haven't been convicted of a crime. plus when it comes to foreclosure fraud can a single person achieve what president obama and all of congress have not been able to do while one woman who's running to be clerk of court is willing to try we will ask her how. it's monday august thirteenth five pm in washington d.c. my name's christine and you're watching our t.v. . i want to tell you know about a previously top secret program used for the last several years in many major cities right here in the united states and there are a whole lot of elements involved here we're talking highly technical facial recognition software closed circuit cameras like many of those ones you may have noticed in parks on the sides of buildings and this also involves former senior intelligence officials who collect information about people by recording them and then encryp

live from moscow are you watching r t with me to say first say the jailing of three members of russian punk band pussy riot who performed a protest stunt in russia's main cathedral has been met with a vocal and polarized reaction from the russian public. the utter the only such thanks. to. the two year jail sentence handed down to the trio for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred to crowds of people outside the court to writing both in support and against the band more than fifty were arrested from both sides of the fence for violating public order the band has also received a backing from outside russia with a number of extreme stunts staged like this one in ukraine where a feminist movement took to a chain saw to across foreign governments also had this say with the u.s. calling on the authorities to review the case is marina porton a report from new york. there's been both political and public reaction over the pussy riot verdict now around the globe there has been several protests on friday in support of the three russian band members that were convicted of hooliganism paris b

we are able to capture through the booking system at the jail. to extract ethnicity information, depending on what the commission would like to see, reporting information to those bodies, it would remain the same as we give them what they asked for. internally, to the police department and the pleasure of the commission, if you like to see any ethnicity broken out, the new world system has 19 different ethnicities on top of the four races with about known. and you'll be able to do that for you. the one thing about the cable system, for whatever reason they used a sea to report asia and pacific islanders. when we contact, we merely informed them to just -- that indicates occasion. the director is going to work to change its going forward of and about how difficult that is. i did not want anyone to think that we are under reporting are misrepresenting. we are reporting what we are being asked for and we will go a step further the pentagon what the commission would have. commissioner turman: breaking out hispanics because they are ethnicity, with tha

the pro-democracy activists in bahrain gets a three year jail sentence for criticizing the regime online for the protests are far from dying out with a verdict only sparking for the arrest. at two year sentence for of members of the punk band pussy rival performing an anti-abortion stand in russia's main cathedral provokes a strong reaction in russia and around the world. the u.n. observer mission in syria expires later on sunday amid ongoing clashes between rebels and government forces the latest blow to international efforts to bring peace to the conflict ridden state. you're watching our t.v. and i'm marina josh it's one pm in the russian capital joining us on just expected to make his first public statement since ecuador and now instead will grant him political asylum one suggested it could strip that would force embassy diplomatic privileges to move and the rest has been sheltering in the embassy for two months now the what american nation has warned britain of grave consequences if that happens laura smith has been following the standoff. it was the day they'd been waiting for juli

now the decision of a russian court to jail the three members of punk band pussy riot for two years has split society and prefer a massive international reaction by the group's anti putin stand in the country's main orthodox cathedral was ruled to be hooliganism motivated by religious hatred dozens of people have been detained during protests both for and against the group a number of gatherings are backing the band were staged in russia as well as spain france britain many other countries as well foreign governments also chimed in to have their say with the u.s. calling on russia north northeast to review the case the saudis put all of our reports. regarding please let you know if there's. any deducing if i would listen then you. jump to their trial here headlines around the world a global audience who's watching as mary. snow. and you can tell in a somewhat sea of each found out their fate to their performance the punk rock prayer in russia's main to phaedra outside the court a large group gathered with both new supporting the women and those opposed to them turning up to voice their

where did they come from under various guises the three women who were jailed on friday have been no strangers to controversy in the past pussy riot grew out of a performance art group which had staged an orgy in a museum filmed a woman performing a sex act on a chicken in a supermarket and kissed on duty female police officers because the performance though took things to another level church groups burned images of the women and of madonna who had spoken out on the side of pussy riot i think they belong to some sect which conducts a tannic ritual elsewhere a church in russia was daubed with the slogan down with religious fanatics and in ukraine a topless member of the group in cooktown a cross with a chain saw and offer from playboy for a photo shoot and pussy riot merchandise deal law has led some to even question was this all an elaborate quest but fame they achieved their goal of. becoming really world famous by doing what they did and when they are released they were in fact travel the world to become famous they have achieved their goal after the two year sentence for hooligani

the courthouse. human rights activist. jailed for three years equal rights movement all across the gulf state. and the u.n. observers mandate for syria later on sunday with a new peace envoy already confirmed reports suggest u.k. intelligence is helping the rebels attack the regime. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow. julian assange has called for the u.s. to stop its witch hunt against whistleblowers and also thank ecuador for granting him political asylum and he made his long awaited statement just about less than an hour ago right now we. made the speech from the balcony of the latin american countries london embassy surrounded by british police who were very ready to sweep him up into custody if he set foot outside the building once cross live now to watch his laura smith outside that embassy in london so lower you were as we both know it was greeted by an extremely. through just a crowd today for i don't think the same could be said for the police in attendance how do you tell us all the world's number one whistleblower. but i mean what's happened to this afterno

the pro-democracy activist in bahrain gets a three year jail sentence for criticizing the regime online but the protests are far from dying out with a verdict only sparking further i dressed. a two year sentence for members of the punk band pussy riot for performing and type wouldn't stand in russia's main cathedral bolds a strong reaction in russia at around the world. last fighting between rebels and government forces rage on in syria where the u.s. mulling over plans to impose a no fly zone the closest washington has come so far to suggesting military intervention. it is am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me rima joshie welcome to the program julian assange is expected to make his first public statement later on sunday since ecuador announced it will grant him political silence but we can he said of her has been sheltering in a london and a sea of the latin american nation for two months now after britain approved his extradition to sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes are just laura smith has been following the standoff. it was the day they'd been waiting f

in moscow court puts three members of the feminist punk band pussy riot in jail for two years for their stunt in russia's main cathedral the verdict resonated across the world and demonstrations for and against the woman in russia. human rights activist. jailed for three years while the equal rights movement. in the gulf states. united nations observer mission wraps up its four month long presence in syria citing increasing violence reports suggesting british intelligence is helping rebels fight the regime. and broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow where it is six o one on the monday morning and this is our t.v. recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program. julian assange has called for the u.s. to stop its witch hunt against whistleblowers and also thanked ecuador for granting him political asylum he made his long awaited statement on the balcony of the latin american countries a london embassy surrounded by british police who were ready to sweep him into custody if he set foot outside the building party's lawyer smith reports from outside that embassy in lon