Has barricaded himself a nows. An Armored Vehicle and helicopters have been deployed. They have been called in to help. We will be following this story and update as you get more information. Governor matt mccrory is taking the fight to the Supreme Court. Hes asking the justices to reinstate the law that was struck down by the Fourth Circuit court announcement yesterday. Whats he telling you today . Reporter russ, the governor knows were less than three months away from the election and he not only hopes to have the law reinstated he hopes to have it done before the election. A federal Appeals Court overturned the law to vote. The judges ruled law discriminates against minority voters. The governor says its time for this to go to the process and ask chief Justice John Roberts to give North Carolina our rights back to have photo id. As over 30 states currently have and if you look add other Court Rulings, Court Rulings have been been used. North carolina is a positive role model. Report
The permanent subcommittee on investigations will come to order. Today the subcommittee continues our bipartisan work investigating conditions in prisons, jails, and Detention Centers across the United States. I think the Ranking Member for his cooperation. In july we released findings of corruption, abuse and misconduct in the federal prison system and questioned the now former director of the federal bureau of prisons. Today after a 10 month bipartisan investigation we can reveal that despite a clear charge from congress to determine who is dying in prisons and jails across the country, where they are dying and why they are dying that abutment of justice is failing to do so. This failure undermines efforts to address the urgent humanitarian crisis ongoing behind bars across the country. Our investigation has revealed that last year alone, according to gao analysis the department of justice failed to identify at least 990 deaths in custody, nearly one thousand uncounted deaths and the
The permanent subcommittee on investigations will come to order. Today the subcommittee continues our bipartisan work investigating conditions in prisons, jails and Detention Centers across the United States. I think the Ranking Member for hiss cooperation. Prin july we released findings f corruption and abuse and misconduct in the federal prison system and questioned themhi now former director of the federal bureau of prisons. Today after a ten month bipartisan investigation we can reveal that despite a charge from congress to determine who is dying in prisons and jails across the country, where and why they are dying the department of justice is failing to do so. The failure undermines efforts to address the urgent humanitarian crisis ongoing behind bars across the country. Our investigation has revealed the last year alone according to the gao analysis i request the department of justice failed to identify at least 990 deaths in custody, nearly 1,000 uncounted deaths and the number
In common. Including how they deal with rule violations. In almost every episode of lockup, youll see an inmate go into segregation or solitary confinement. Its the most common method prisons and jails use for disciplining inmates. But its also one of the most controversial issues in all of corrections. Most jails and prisons require segregation inmates be confined to singleperson cells 23 hours per day along with other restrictions. Those could be suspension of privileges, phone calls and other privileges such as ordering commissary, that make life bearable. On our first day of filming at jail on long island. We met kevin suswell. He wasted little time in showing us he was a very strong man. The newer and more modern of the countys two jails, the large day rooms gave suswell plenty of room for his routine. But in the course of our shoot on long island, suswell was transferred to the countys older, highersecurity riverhead jail. He was now living in considerably tighter quarters. I was