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Immigrants in our prison systems. an illegal immigrant is twice as likely to commit a crime over a natural u.s. citizen. we are americans, we get big things done. if we had a zero tolerance program. we would execute that. we allowed illegal immigrants to under cut our country and its destabilizing us all across america. i dont think we should stand for it anymore. its a key campaign promise the president ran on and hes going to fulfill. >> charlie, thats intellectually dishonest. for you to stat...

>> you were too. >> i was too. i appreciate that. >> you were in a lot. >> say a word about why you went into creating a documentary like that about prison. >> well, i wanted to create a primer. its not about prison but, as you well know, its about the criminal justice system and ways in which we call the prison industrial complex now is warped and formed and deformed as the decades have gone on. so in that documentary we spend a hundred minutes and go through a hundred years of american history...

>> i was too. i appreciate that. >> you were in a lot. >> say a word about why you went into creating a documentary like that about prison. >> it is not about prison, but as you well know, its about the criminal justice system and the ways in which what we call the prison industrial complex now is warped and formed and deformed as the decades have gone on, so in the documentary, we spend 100 minutes going through 100 years of meamerican history helping people understand prison is not a bplace wh...

Looking into -- i think we need to really dive deep into the information, like what happens inside these prisons, what we need to dispatch more people into these prison systems and really, really analyze whats going on and start to change around start to really talk about why is this happening? what can we do to prevent this in the future? we dont need to disburse these security guards that were in these institutions into other jails. but do our research and find better solutions to fix our brok...

These different cultures and religions well integrated? >> i would say, ana, theyre much more integrated in the united kingdom than other countries. lets take france, about 8% of the population is muslim, but up to 60% of the french prison population is muslim. that gives you a sense of how discriminated against the french muslim population is in france. and weve seen obviously a lot of terrorist attacks in france, similarly in belgium. many carried out about people who have gone through the fre...

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...

For example, theres a california 12. theyre fighting for 12 wrongfully convicted men and women who have exhausted all efforts towards their exoneration. they gone through the chain of chain of command in the court system and now theyre begging for clemency from the government. >> however crowd d crowded are the prison systems and filled with impeachment who just should not be there. how awful is it? >> its pretty awful. i met some of the most interesting people behind bars. during my time there....

Maintained they still have been wrongly convicted. msnbc legal correspondent arly melber joins me now with more on the issue. one of those men wrongfully convicted and the twist of fate in his life is like a movie. >> it is a pretty incredible story. i spent time in chicago with jared adams, he spent nine years in prison for a crime he insisted he did not commit. taught himself to lawyer while in prison. appealed through the project, got the innocence project in wisconsin to take his case and it...

So were learning how to deal with this and what this situation brings to us. technically not until hes 21 we could do that. >> i think the juvenile 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 hes thriving in this system. hes doing terrific. >> where did that attitude change come from? >> having worked in prison systems many...

>> life means getting our feet dirty, from the dust-filled roads of life and history, all of us need to be cleansed, to be washed, all of us, and me in first place. all of us are being sought out by the teacher, who wants to help us resume our journey. the lord goes in search of us, to all of us he stretches out a helping hand. it is painful when we see prison systems which are not concerned to care for wounds, to soothe pain, to offer new possibilities. it is painful when we see people who thin...