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Is very true. they are gonna know he is a celebrity and he is going to get targeted i think, because of that. and more importantly, they are going to know that he could have money in that commissary county and that maybe if they force him to have money in that commissary account, it comes back to help them. it is gonna be a huge change for hernandez. he will probably need to keep him in protective custody, at least for a while. we know he had some gang associations potentially before he got to t...

This backlog. >> yes, because drug companies were pressured to withhold product from prisons, that put prison systems across the country who have death penalty the problem of finding new sources for the drugs and it is difficult. >> our team pulled this up. this is the death row tracking system. these are condemned inmates names on this list of individuals, so kermits story and his familys story is just one. i know people have their opinions of the death penalty, but once someone has been convic...

Do you feel folks are beginning to coalesce? i know al sharpton are talking about 24. are people beginning to coalesce around certain aspects and what are they. >> it is all relative. you talk to someone who is 20 years old and filling the prison systems with their bodies they say what about this moment zbl this is their jim crowe. >> exactly. you talk to a person that says black lives matter, when they encounter the police, and in all these other institutions. theyre trying to get to that point...

Because weve never had to deal with this and what his situation brings to us. i mean, technically, we keep him until he is 21. well could do that. i dont imagine well have him until he is 21. but no one has really made that decision. we havent crossed how long hell stay here. >> i think the juvenile justice system is fully capable of dealing with this situation, and in fact they are fully dealing with it right now. he is in the juvenile justice system. if the judges order stands, he wont be here...

With this and what his situation brings to us. i mean, technically, we keep him until he is 21. well could do that. i dont imagine well have him until he is 21. but no one has really made that decision. we havent crossed how long hell stay here. >> i think the juvenile justice system is fully capable of dealing with this situation, and in fact they are fully dealing with it right now. he is in the juvenile justice system. if the judges order stands, he wont be here for very much longer. but he i...

This, its working quite effectively. so i think its very important that we focus on that. its not a wholesale exiting from prison systems. we have to do better than that. >> its important point about the state level in texas is the ultimate example a bt how the politics has changed. rick perry, john cornyn, texas is one of the states. former democratic nominee is going to be sticking around with us. i want to thank john malcolm and mary price. john will also be sticking around. more next. dont w...

We havent even gotten to the fact that inside a lot of these prison systems, men and women are facing tremendous illegal sexual misconduct. >> thats true. you know, two particularly notorious examples of the problem that i referred to in my testimony include the otter creek correctional facility in kentucky, where 400 women prisoners were moved out of the facility because the correctional system of kentucky, you rrived at the conclusion that they couldnt stop the rape culture and sexual abuse th...

How long theyre there for. when we had a violent crime epidemic in the 80s and early 90s, prison systems were really putting their fingers in the dike. they were just trying to figure out some way to keep criminal organizations that were housed in prisons from reaching out into the streets. in california, this experiment reached its apex with pelican bay where you had these men who had been in solitary for this long, theyre all convicted murders, but they werent put there because of that. they w...

African-american girls? are they more likely to complete school than their male counterparts? >> they absolutely are. one of the bigger issues is weve criminalized the behavior of our boys all the way down to pre-k. we send our children home more often than any other population. >> glenn, why is now a time when real reform could be achieved? >> sure. im actually very pleased that the attorney general is finally seeing that our war on drugs is a failure and addressing all the collateral consequen...

We uncovered in our reporting, according to the florida department of law enforcement, a so-called cottage industry of these fraudulent documents used in prison systems all throughout the state of florida. >> i remember at the time when wi were talking about it, whether there was questioning whether these guys had inside help in terms of the arrests. do we know if any prison officials will be arrested? >> thats right, a lot of initial speculation is this was an inside job. at this point, there a...