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>> he isnt alone. studies have shown corrections officers have a significantly higher suicide rate than the general population. >> can you give me some specific antidotes of things that have happened to you? >> a defendant threw human waste out the cell at me. what can you do to that offender? >> here like in so many other states the institution is understaffed. >> go to home depot and make the same amount of money and not get feces thrown at them. >> one of the things thats helped is something ...

It is something given back to the prison itself. >> smith tells me the crops not only provide the inmate population fresh food, but he says it also saves taxpayers money. it costs $1.70 a day to feed each offender. this will be the life for many of these men were decades to come. and some have left young children behind who are among the five million kids in america who have had a parent in prison. javonte has two of them. >> you know the way it works sometimes is youre in prison because your da...

You have to be willing to give it to other people. i just think that we actually cant be decent. i do believe we are all more than the worst thing we have ever done. somebody tells a lie, they are not just a liar. if they take something, they are not just a thief. even if you kill somebody, youre not just a killer. you have to understand the other things you are before we judge you. a world without mercy is not a world thats going to allow us to progress. if a family member is too angry and too ...

Me up pulling my hair and strangling me. by the time and yelling and her colleagues arrive hes long gone the officers cant arrest the offender but they take time to talk with the survivors making sure their children are safe and explaining the womens legal rights. those are the ones that we have to make it clear. the women that theyve just experienced a crime that they are victims of a cycle of violence in their families and that they need psychological attention to help them get out of the situ...

>> but while these prisoners are talking about victims from the inside, victims rights advocates fear they are not being talked about enough on the outside. do you think that victims have enough of a voice right now in this big conversation were having about criminal justice reform >> i dont right now, and i think thats because for a very long time they were viewed as adversaries, not allies, to reformers when in reality what most of our research is telling us is that we really should be allies ...

On justice system than rehabilitation. >> most acknowledge the way they feel safe is through rehabilitation of their offender. >> in 2015, she was sexually assaulted by her massage therapist. he pled guilty. >> i said if god offers you a path of redemption, i hope you take it. >> in discussion over prison reform. if it really is intentional that we want to do what is right and just for prisoners and victims, there will be open minds. >> life sentences are not just a burdener for the incarcerated...

Say youve got to strike a balance because, you know, erasing that identity or concealing that identity could also sanitize, you know, the pers person, you know, and what they did, especially the heinous act they did. youve got to strike a balance. shimon, thank you so much. i want to bring in an active shooting expert gin kim. thank you so much. what wstruck you in the press conference about what was revealed and what was not revealed. >> first and foremost i want to express my condolences for...

I support it all together. at one point it should be sooner than later, the community deserves to know who this is. my only thought would be that theyre still trying to confirm 100% who this offender is and everything about him before they send that information out to the public. >> and is it your -- is it your feeling that it is perplexing that they wouldnt? you do understand the reasoning on notoriety, but we had a law enforcement expert on earlier, juliet juliette kayyem there is a need to kn...

Gunman. >> yeah. exactly. that may be the point. right now the fbi and postal inspector police are part of this investigation moving forward, one being federal. unfortunately a federal postal office worker lost her life. on top of that, theyre looking diligently at every turn right now to not only understand and identify co-conspirators and any information they may have had at the time. this event is not one of your typical shooter events were so used to unfortunately in this country. what has h...

Manifest it in violence. whats scary in this and watching the coverage yesterday is when the offender went mobile, that really, really, really heightened and brought this problem to another level. >> yeah. in fact, the police chief underscored that. he said, you know, this is a different type of tirch shooter because he was mobile. help underscore the challenges, you know, for law enforcement to stop this and stop him in motion like this. >> yeah. and id like to hopefully know how this all start...