. >> the story behind the orange underwear at the tulsa county jail. >> get out of here. the david l. moss criminal justice center looks like any other office building in couple downtown tulsa, oklahoma. but its real purpose, it's the tulsa county jail. on any given day, about 1800 men and women are incarcerated here. most are only accused of crimes and awaiting trial at the resolution of the cases. since that could range from days to years, jail officials say they strive to make the stay as comfortable as reasonably possible. >> we know you're in jail, you know you're in jail, why can't you have a chair that's comfortable to sit in while you're watching tv? why can't you have access to hot and cold water, access to food so you can snack and all of the necessities, but on top of that, because of the way we design our facility, inmates can leave their housing unit unescorted, people ask why all the time. why did you do that? my response is, why not? if we are going to let human beings maintain dignity, why not? you give to them until they prove they don't deserve it, then y

flonase. 6>1 changes everything. >>> like many other urban jails, tulsa county invests in training its staff to handle a variety of personalities, problems, and emergencies. >> let's go, let's go. >> let's go. >> let's go. >> the jail opened in 1999. but before that, officials had recognized the importance of design and management of the facility. >> stand right outside your doors, gentlemen. >> everything in this facility was meant to affect the mental state. there are no -- there's no barbed wire. there's no gun tower. there's no viewpoint from outside that you can tell this is a jail. on the general population housing units, there's wooden doors. a lot of people, why wooden doors? if you've never been inside of a cell and heard the metal on metal shut of a door, you don't understand. it's a mental thing. we have carpet on the floor. in the day room. we have tables that are movable. we have chairs that they can pick up and move and sweep under and take them to the room and put them at their desks. they have porcelain toilets, porcelain sinks. and we did that for a reason. if you affe

about it. >> soon to be on a van headed to the nearby creek county jail to face an additional charge of strong-arm robbery, lopez has left her tulsas behind and changed into the clothes she was arrested in. the transfer policy requires her to leave much of her other possessions behind. >> that's it. >> she's only allowed to take what will fit into a small yellow pouch. >> can i see the bags? that way i'll know if this will fit. i'm a tight squeezer, so i know i can squeeze some of this stuff in where you would just throw it in and it wouldn't fit. >> no, you don't know me, so you don't know how i pack stuff. >> you're a man. men usually don't pack very well. >> well, i've done plenty of road trips, so i know how to pack. >> as lopez struggles with packing her pouch -- >> will this fit? last thing. >> -- her fiance and co-defendant, matthew west, has just dedicated a work of in-cell graffiti to her. >> always and forever. it's something between me and adriana. that's a sacred heart, it's a symbol of passion. jesus is always holding a sacred heart. i have it tattooed in the middle of my chest. i mean, it was bound to happen. it's a

tell ariel that we love her and that everything's going to be okay. >> officials at the tulsa county jailnize that as the number of men and women in jail or prison continues to increase, so too does the number of parents who have left children behind. >> all right, i love you. >> it's estimated that there are more than 1.7 million american children with at least one parent behind bars. nearly twice as much as ten years earlier. the jail offers several educational and religious programs along with one designed to help parents reconnect with their kids. >> she's feeling poorly and i'm taking her a surprise. >> it's called story time. >> mama said not to speak to any strangers. >> we bring the inmates down to the library and they're able to pick out a children's book and they read it, it's recorded, and then the tape and the book is sent out to the child. despite their circumstances, despite the bad choices that they've made to come here, they still want to stay connected to their kids and, you know, want to show their kids that they're doing something positive. >> let's go! meeks and stokes

woman was walking toward the vehicles, mitchell is be are being held in camden county jail on fugitive charges. >>> tulsa oklahoma police officer who was shot dead, shot dead an unarmed black mandy fend her actions on national tv. >> her name is betty shelby. she shot and killed terence croucher in the middle of the street back in september of last year. shelby said that croucher had a odd zombie like behavior. she sat down on sunday for her first interview since being charged with manslaughter. >> his shoulder's dropped, his arm drop he was reaching in and it is fast. just that would tell any officer that man's going for a weapon. >> shelby talk about her husband who was working as a spotter on the police department cotter that day. her criminal trial is expect to begin in may. she faces life in prison if found, guilty. >>> and this is a big day for judge neil gorsuch with an expected senate committee vote he is about to cross one major hurdle on his path to the supreme court but democrats are on the verge of pulling out all of the stops to oppose him. doug luzader has this store friday washington what