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Tension that will be involved as to this matter. >> for almost two hours deputies armed with latex gloves search the inmates bunks and belongings for razor blades, drugs, and other contraband. >> i have noticed recently the welds on the bottom of the legs, those bust off sometimes when they lift them up and do things with them. so theyll stick things in there, drugs and cigarettes, lighters, things like that. >> they take the razors out of the razors we give to them and they wrap one end to prot...

Jimmy. >> jimmy, jimmy. >> you know, me and jimmy have some interactions the last few weeks. some of it has been good. some of it has been bad. but they put me on a new med. i told them if i feel and jimmy feels that its making me slow in any shape or form, im going to get off the medication because i dont like to be down. i like to be up. >> coreys decision to go off his medication not only affects him but his new cell mate, jonathan elliott, who must cope with both corey and jimmy. >> did you ...

>> bencha alerted on two bunks. deputies did not find drugs in the unit but that doesnt mean that benchas nose failed her. >> its not that she is looking to find the drugs, she is catching the odor, we know drugs were there. >> because they havent found anything doesnt mean it wasnt there. >> exactly. like a cherry pie, if you bake a cherry pie in the morning and eat it before you go to work and come home, what do you smell, km cherry pie. were being proactive, searching for them and be a big de...

>> [ bleep ] aint nobody, man. they aint playing, man, they giving out permanent homes across that courthouse. >> the next thing we know officers were running in, telling us we had to grab our gear and go. there was some kind of disturbance going on and they were locking down the floor. >> that was a backup call you just heard. officers are responding to the fifth floor emergency. >> put them on their bunks. everybody on their bunks. >> fortunately it turned out it wasnt a riot and we were able ...

Think thats really unfair. >> drug-related arrests and anger at the system were common themes among most of the women we met in jail. >> we are threatened with everything. threatened to get in our bunks. threatened to get things out of our hair that may just make us feel a little bit more feminine. >> repeat offender kimberly jean had just been sentenced to four years in prison for sales of a controlled substance. with her time at the l.a. county jail nearing an end, she let loose on the staff. ...

investigation into what could have led to this, and thats ongoing, as you can see behind me at the high school here. local sheriffs department leading this investigation, but theyre getting help from the fbi and the atf. in fact, they have recovered the firearm that they believe was used, and they have given that to the atf to do some ballistics work on it. the other side of the story is clearly the absolute despair and shock that the people here are going through, and especially the f...

election commission. that would make it the most expensive election season in american history. but heres the dirty truth about american history. money always seeps into politics, and it has been going and going and going for a long time. take president mckinleys campaign at the turn of the century. even know that guy? railroad and steel barrons gave him the then insanely kingly sums of $6 million for his 1896-1900 presidential win. that would be a lot of money even now. president nixo...

"outfront" tonight, big, big, and bigger money in politics. upwards of $11 million will be spent on this years election, according to the federal election commission. that would make it the most expensive election season in american history. but heres the dirty truth about american history. money always seeps into politics, and it has been going and going and going for a long time. take president mckinleys campaign at the turn of the century. even know that guy? railroad and steel barr...

>> do you think he should have been let out? >> almost 200 criminals, some convicted murderers, hardened by mississippis outgoing governor. the public now in fear for their safety, even their lives. that and more, right here and right now on cnn. more than 4,000 people are no doubt celebrating life like they never have before. they escaped death by drowning in a cruise ship that nearly became their floating coffin when it suddenly ran aground off the coast of italy. just a short whil...

share their stories. >> free at last? >> do you think he should have been let out? >> almost 200 criminals, some convicted murderers, hardened by mississippis outgoing governor. the public now in fear for their safety, even their lives. that and more, right here and right now on cnn. more than 4,000 people are no doubt celebrating life like they never have before. they escaped death by drowning in a cruise ship that nearly became their floating coffin when it suddenly ran aground off...