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By whatever agency in los angeles county. generally all agencies book into now the consolidated booking system which is l.a. county jail system. >> with close to a hundred buses inmates are picked up from the various courts and police stations in the county of los angeles. their first stop inside l.a. county jail is the inmate reception center. >> on the busy days on monday through tuesday were talking about anywhere from 600 to 800 inmates that are being booked each of those days. wednesdays, t...

Because then ill be accused of being soft on crime. i really think the question we should be asking is why were we spending all of this money to lock these people up for more than ten years and the irony is when the prisons get overcrowded, you know, they start letting people out and in many cases the people that get out are people who were much more dangerous to society. much more harm they have done than the people were keeping in. >> so bottom line. >> you have to be smart about this stuff. >...

Drug dealers are over half the federal prison population and a quarter of those were street dealers. we have a lot of street dealers taking up prison cells for five years and ten years and 20 years and those are prison cells that are not available for people who, in my estimation, pose a far greater risk to public safety. >> youre talking about the financial aspect of this. the number of people incarcerated shs the cost that comes with that. when i listen to john cornyn, he stresses rehabilitati...

We have everything. nothing is lacking. we have a television. we have a radio, a cd player, dvds, fans, shelves, there is a cabinet where we put all our clothes. a shower. nothing is lacking. >> rimonim has both two-man and six-man cells, all of which more resemble college dormitories than american prison cells. and while most american inmates are not allowed to bring personal items beyond wedding bands or religious medallions with them, israeli inmates pack their bags before coming to prison. >...

Hands. other chief national correspondent jim sciutto is joining me. ive spoke to several officials and military personnel who are outraged. >> there are 23 pages of this report and these were not minor players. 25 linked to the production of ieds, roadside bombs. a third tested positive for explosives when they were captured. together, they are responsible for coalition fighters and now they are free. they are behind dozens of deadly attacks on american soldiers. from roadside bombs like this o...

Going to return to what i do. what you sent me to do in washington, d.c. >> joining me now is the contributor to the grio and co-host of msnbc "the cycle" working on a new art call entitled "presumed guilty." ari, it seems to me if youre going to get caught with cocaine, its real good to be a congressman in the united states. things turn out pretty well. >> i think things turn out a lot better for you if you are a member of congress. if you are a white american, things turn out better for you th...

As you alluded to on the program before. the history is important this member of congress voted to say that people who use cocaine should be denied benefits. he still has a lot of government benefits, as well as government power. >> there are thousands and thousands of people, men and women in america tonight doing hard time in federal prison cells over exactly what he did. >> right. and i think, you know, to quote michelle alexander, there is nothing more than the war on drugs that has contribu...

And misogynist. there seemed to be something appropriate that he had to sit there and take his medicine from an african-american woman. >> its interesting. you wrote that hes a man not worthy of our hate, but you and i both know hollywood has glamorized whitey bulger, his story. weve seen the glamourization of his life. lets play a clip. >> show me around. flip it. >> kevin, you and i both know movies last forever. think about al capone, other mobsters. how do you think whitey bulger will be rem...

5:20 saturday night, local time hey had them surrounded, bull horns and firearms aimed at room 227. 34-year-old fugitives charles walker and joe jenkins had no way out. >> we made announcements over our p.a. system they were surrounded. after a minute or two, both of the fugitives came out and surrendered to us. >> reporter: the clever escaped prisoners appeared in a county court. >> jenkins, joseph. >> reporter: still waiting to be handed over to prison officials. police questioned them all nig...

Been on television interviews and might testify to that. is that enough, is that critical enough, richard, quickly before i get averys take? >> yeah, no, i dont think it is critical. i think theres a huge gap here, fred, and i think the fact theyre going to bring in jail house rats who shared prison cells with him to say he told us he used bad words to reference her. >> theyre not bringing in just jail house rats. >> thats who theyre bringing in, thats the evidence, yes. >> here is the evidence....