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Could have been in place do you think would have prevented you from falling into this? do you think theres a system that could have stopped? >> yes. i wrote my book called "corruption officer." in the book i put detailed ways where they could slow down contraband from entering inside the building. officers are comfortable with the post theyre working on. if were working together, we come in tocchgether, familiar w one another. if we search that around -- the front entrance youre supposed to sear...

Cell from staff who should be looking in there. >> but bob -- >> yes. >> when you say should be looking in there, as a former warden, you have all of these people reporting to you, these correction officers some of whom are excellent and they do their jobs every single day and some dont play by the rules. its a fact. how did you keep your people in line? >> well, you know the first thing is there is nothing short of getting from behind your desk and out of your office is a warden and going throu...

This type of lax security. i think the honor block is where they have to concentrate their efforts. we have heard of dry runs in the past in other major escapes that occurred in the united states. obviously, that comes down to a lack of complacency and security. >> erin burnett spoke to david sweats mother on cnn last night. she had a theory why she thinks hes talking as well as who she holds responsible. listen to this. >> no he always told on himself all the time when he was a kid. i was surpr...

>> thank you, as always for being all over the story. now we turn to arthur roderick, spent quarter center hunting convicts. with the marshal service. put us in context, how does the jailbreak and the details fit in to how these things usually go down? >> i mean it -- as a criminal investigator, as a deputy u.s. marshal, escape cases always are the most interesting. and when you compare this all the way back to the alcatraz escape, it -- it does have a lot of similarities to a lot of the escap...

Is an everyday reminder of the danger that inmates who greatly outnumber guards could take over at any time. an attica sergeant whose father was killed in the retaking tells all new recruits about the events of 1971. he says i make sure it gets talked about. you do certain things a certain way because it wasnt done one time and the inmates took control. so in your experience james, how do you think the legacy of that riot impacted the way workers interacted with prisoners? >> well what that serg...

Baffled sweat said yeah our plan was to kill the husband. they were like why would you do that? he said we had a deal. seemed like an unusual thing to do. he was thinking of keeping with the deal with somebody when hes the kind of guy he is. now we have the second layer, whats going on inside that prison. the allegations, if you take them at the worst, arthur of the heroin trade that was going on and being driven by the guards. as horrible as those sound, its not the first time you have heard th...

Problems in the corrections institute and everything that went wrong and all the holes in the safety net, i guess. what is your take on that? are we going to have to have an overhaul? >> appears, obviously, the inspector general for the state of new york is already looking at what was going on at that particular facility. complacency usually lends itself to escapes. and thats what happened here. and i think youre going to have to have a complete overhaul, a look at all their guidelines and regul...

On, do you think? >> i think do everything by the books, read him his rights, charge him with the appropriate crimes but eventually, i do believe they will negotiate some type of deal where he will give everything up. what this is, this is a multimillion dollar lesson in human fallibilities, human factor. complacen complacency, we make mistakes in complacency and we see the prison system and we know that there is drugs. we know that cell phones are smuggled in. we know that there is sex and non-...

Take lives, but the way they took lives. that they are afforded that level of luxury. im sure the families of those slain didnt know that and im sure if they did, they didnt like it. again, theres a reason why no one broke out of that prison in such a long time, it was the complacency and the fal bills of the human element. again, we dont come from the planet perfect, we come from the planet earth, but this shouldnt have happened. >> this was sort of a perfect scenario. bill, i want you to stay ...

Grace, with our rancor and complacency and short-sightedness and fear of each other but we got it all the same. he gave it to us anyway. hes once more given us grace. but it is up to us now to make the most of it. to receive it with gratitude and to prove ourselves worthy of this gift. for too long we were blind to the pain that the confederate flag stirred in too many of our citizens. [ applause ] its true a flag did not cause these murders. but as people from all walks of life republicans and ...