it's bad in here, man, it's bad. >> wetzel: yeah?risoner: it's bad. >> whitaker: wetzel started as a prison guard three decades ago. back in 1980, there were 8,000 inmates in the state. today, there are almost 50,000. physical and sexual assaults are a fact of life. at graterford, there are more than 600 lifers. >> wetzel: pennsylvania's a state where life means life. so, if you're doing life here, you're not going to be walking around a park eating sundaes with your family. >> whitaker: when wetzel was in germany, joerg jesse gave him a tour of waldeck. you were skeptical. >> wetzel: it almost sounded like disneyland. "oh, there's very few inmates. inmates have their own keys and everybody gets along and everything's hunky-dory." i mean, who's buying that story? not me. >> whitaker: by the end of his visit, wetzel was buying it. he started implementing some of the things he saw in germany, like more intensive staff training, greater freedom for inmates with good behavior, and programs to help them re-enter society. we, the american

john wetzel is pennsylvania's secretary of corrections.o germany looking for ideas to improve his prisons. he showed us around graterford, outside philadelphia. it's the largest maximum securi prison in pennsylvania. almost 3,000 prisoners are packed in here.through anll blo. >>l stop back. apprch he said he was a lowevel dg offend. le prisoner: sometimes, it be dying in their cells, the water inks. diyou smell the water? the water smells like it'sto the choir. i've done as much as i could for-- >> prisoner: i mean, for real,o. >>etzel: yeah? i mean, lo a >> prisoner: it's bad. >> whitaker: wetzel started as a prison guard three decades ago. back in 1980, there were 8,000 inmates in the state. today, there are almost 50,000. physical and sexual assaults are a fact of life. at graterford, there are more than 600 lifers. >> wetzel: pennsylvania's a state where life means life. around a park eating sunda with your family. >> wker: whetz germany, joerg jesse gave him a tour of ldeck. you were skeptical. >> wetzel: it almost sounded like disney

campaign to protect the desolate region that clock joined a greenpeace scientific expedition to the wetzel see. the captain's eye view of our voyage south as the icebreaker optic sunrise pushes through into the remote waters of the weddell sea vost unknown territory few ships venture this far altie has already made an attempt this antarctic summer but was foiled by ice because right now we have a way through. to get it down into the wealthiest try and reach before the beginning of what would be protected looks like opening at least for. yes probably just making sure somebody a long war and. finally we break through into the isolated area of the proposed site tree at the moment i checked on the. satellite charts this morning and there's someone of the ship in this entire space as us that another ship about there and that's it and the whole whole area that's a slightly scary terrifying. exciting exciting kind of just makes the case that this is pristine this area is not developed his not call industry has never had industry. we take a chance in this rare window of weather to take to the air

wetzel's into the daca deal back and forth afraid to speak of the deal that was offered this week includedn exchange for the border wall and border security spending. >> i would probably favor a short term solution, three years for three years funding. >> i just had a meeting with a variety of senators, they seemed surprised by some of the offers were rejected out of hand. >> there are lots of opportunities for us to help the daca kids. right now, the president as he did a few weeks ago, was standing in the way. >> bret: but is it fair to say that because the president says it's the democrats who don't want to take this deal. they wanted as an election issue. >> they do want it as an election issue but in addition to that company of a situation where we are dealing with a bill that is completely a mess. it has all these different priorities smashed into if they don't work. we are still seeing a couple of those come to light. i don't see any chance of a deal at this juncture given the politics of this issue. it is only going to continue to be demagogue as we go forward. the reality is that

in connecticut, commissioner diana wetzel has moved beyond the traditional academic measures of test scores and graduation rates. she's also adding additional measures such as entrance into post-secondary after high school, physical fitness and access to the arts. and we know we cannot stop at just accountability that leads me to commitment number four. go local and engage education agencies and provide support. states are also leading in this with the work of their stakeholders on how to intervene in those schools that are not meeting the needs of children. all 50 states and d.c. -- excuse me. across 50 states and d.c., the outside organization called results for america identified 162 promising practices for building and using evidence to improve student outcomes as it reviewed its state plans. we know conversations about promising practices continue today. they didn't end when we submitted our plans. you can point to d.c., illinois, new york, north dakota and many more states in which committees and subcommittees are continuing to meet to talk through implementation and what does

later we talk to jonathan wetzel ren.l, and mona chai the first real primaries of the year our next tuesdayn texas. and a firestorm over the democratic campaign committee. two things. was it the right thing for them to do and number two, does this with thentention progressives in your party who have a lot of energy and less liberal elements of the party that may be concerned? was that the right thing? >> i would have done it. democrats, we did this in for genia. they did talk about campaign issues and we did come out of their strong. so i would have done that differently. >> in illinois there is another primary with a spirited debate coming up the week after next. democratic, and a lot of women's groups are mobilizing. you are neutral in that race. but there's -- but is there a place for someone like dan lipinski? whohere are many democrats play an important role in the democratic party have a different view on that. i do think that the democratic party has that place. at the same time, i am proud of our platform which is very clearly saying that a woman's right to choose is not simply a ma