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>> reporter: so now they have the barriers. they have also lowered the security gate at this exit over here. trying to prevent police from coming in and also preventing people from being able to get out. . >> again, janis, no indication why this escalated so quickly from a peaceful protest just hours ago, within the last couple of hours she talked about, to this? we dont know what sparked the intensity of emotion here? >> reporter: there is an intensity to this. but i didnt see it over the weeke...

Have seen mainly because of drug sentencing laws the prison population in the united states go up not double, not triple, but go up by seven times. according to one pew study, nonpartisan group, annual state and federal spending on corrections has also grown by 300% during the past two decades to about $52 billion. what do you think is the cost, not only that financial cost, i just mentioned but societal cost of deciding to create laws, particularly the mandatory minimums and three strikes laws ...

But i think that dab the chasm thats being created is -- more about pro-violent -- i have to use that term in quotes because -- we hear it in the news often. but we are criminalizing people and if you look at the mums, there are lots of people of color who are suffering from this -- criminalization and a -- wearing the scarlet letter far beyond the years they are turfing and i think we have to really reassess, you know, who we are sending away why we are sending them away. and the lengths that t...