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Ask your doctor about it by name. joining me now is piper kerman who writes about her time in prison in "orange is the new black." maybe youve heard about that, one of the most successful shows out there? and you ban the efforts of prison overcrowding and unfair sentencing. piper, i want to talk to you about the show "orange is the new black." based on your own experience in

Executed in texas this year. the justice department announcing it will release around 6,000 inmates from prison at the end of this month. this is the largest number ever released at one time. officials say the move is an attempt to reduce prison overcrowding and to ease harsh sentences in drug cases. about one-third of the inmates are undocumented immigrants who supreme courts ruling on same-sex marriage. the resolution which was sponsored by a fellow county commissioner said, in part, we adop...

The feds are about to release 6,000 inmates nation-wide according to the "washington post" which reports this is the largest everyone-time release of federal prisoners. officials say most of the inmates are in for just drug crimes, not violence. theyll mostly go to halfway houses or house arrest before theyre free with supervision. the feds say this is part of larger plan to cut back on prison overcrowding and reduce sentences for some nonviolent drug offenders. critics say releasing so many pri...

Im very pleased with hitlers last days. children will be engaged if you can get the mnls out of their hands. why didnt the american flag fly half-staff on federal property after the five servicemen were killed in chattanooga? dennis why do you keep hammering mexico is corrupt when the u.s. has allowed millions of undocumented people into the country? mexico is. the drug cartel is allowed to do whatever it wants. while i support case law, there are problems with prison overcrowding and cost among...

Offenders. im sorry, gretchen, i really have a problem with that. talking about a felon with possession of a gun, thats one of the people that hes already commuted. that is not a nonviolent crime to me committed a felony and is possession of a firearm, somebody who is possessing cocaine with attempt to distribute. to me thats a nonviolent offense and thats where people are being commuted. >> right. >> so hes saying look both republicans and democrats have kind of come to this conclusion. >> or s...

Court documents show a louisiana man is supposed to be in prison for an attack so violent, his girlfriend needed surgery. whats more, records show isaiah spencer refused to let the victim call for help, leaving her nearly paralyzed with pain for a day. and now this man here is out free. not because of prison overcrowding, but because of an oversight. a clerical error that involved the omission of one single digit. reporter kate moore from our new orleans affiliate, wwl, has the story. >> reporte...

To follow any rules of his parole, which is why parole supervisor susan cane is trying to sound the alarm. she is speaking out against the states wishes, saying she believes the public is not safe. she says shes speaking out for herself personally and not the department of corrections. >> all my years in law enforcement and its been over 30 years, i for the first time feel at a total loss that i can honestly say we do our job, we do the very best job that we can, but we cant protect the communit...

Career the only way we know how. >> did you catch leno on thursday night, greg? >> yeah, right. >> he did this one joke. check it out. >> bad news for the state of california. supreme court decision will force the state to release 46,000 convicts because of prison overcrowding. but the good news, looks like the oakland raiders will have more season ticket holders. the stadium will be packed. >> not bad. >> pretty good. >> it sounded familiar. i was wracking my brain figuring out where i heard so...

Cleaner, this is specific to merkel. why? im going to presume that theres some information that led them to do this. well, maybe we need to know what that information is, as difficult as it might be to reveal. but we need to know what the hell has been going on here. >> i think its just republicans coming out suddenly and defending these programs. at the very beginning of the snowden revelations, there was a hard, hard push from the white house that has completely vanished. and people like mike ...

Defeated. we want to get a look at your morning dish of scrambled politics. california governor jerry brown says he has a solution for a court-ordered reduction in prison overcrowding, spending 315 million bucks to rent cells in private prisons and jails. outgoing homeland security secretary janet napolitano said farewell on tuesday neat that go in her 4 1/2 years the u.s. has made great progress in reducing illegal immigration. >> our borders are better staffed and better protected and ille...