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>> the jail had to make numerous adjustments to go from being a short-term facility for pretrial detainees to lousing long-term felons, many of whom were seasoned prison inmates. since these state prison inmates will now be released directly into their communities the law came with an important provision. funding for a variety of re-entry programs, some of which provide real-world job skills. one program for female inmates is a culinary arts course run by a professional chef, trun buey. >> the t...

First arrived. >> when i first came here, i couldnt eat, i thought the food of the nasty. but i got used to the programming in here, and learned how to do what i need to survive. i eat everything every day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. >> tastes better? >> yeah, it tastes better now. >> what i see from greggs, hes optimistic. he went to four classes here and parenting classes and got his certificate and everything like that, and based on that hes going to be successful. i wish it were that easy...

His short sentence. though hes used his time here to develop a new interest. >> they all call me spiderman, spider.çó >> this say wolf spider, he hasnt eaten for a day or two. guaranteed hed attack. >> hes best known for a different kind of spider. >> these are toilet paper spiders. i use thread, toilet paper, and hairnet and some people like them colored. some people like them ñi real-looking. prefer, i guess color. its a little more exotic, iñi would say. >> these do look real. you wake up...

Get to know you as a person, instead of oh, thats just a convict. >> so if you dont have the mind-set to plan for sobriety e then you dont know where youre going. >> greggs said theres been another development since he first arrived. >> when i first came here,ñ)hr couldnt eat, i thought the food of the nasty. but i got used to the programming in here, and learned how to do what i need to survive. i eat everything every day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. >> tastes better? >> yeah, it tastes bett...

In just a couple of hours, president obama will be traveling to newark, new jersey as part of a push for reforming the criminal justice system. the president will focus on former inmates trying to find housing and work. lets get more from msnbc chief legal correspondent ari member. good morning. what specifically is the president going to be calling for? >> the big developing news this morning, he is calling for banning the box. that is the idea that basically employers should delay the inquirie...

We may be locking up our next generation of finders and believers and doers in the united states. >> its a pretty incredible story, jose. and he wants to do this work here, learn how to lawyer on that 7th circuit. he just took the bar and will get his results next month. >> and youre interviewing jarrett later on our air today. whats next for him? >> well, hes got this clerkship and hes got a clerkship with the federal district court. what he says he wants to do, jose, is represent people who ar...

Rejoin society. all of us are part of that effort. >> the pontiffs call for the public to invest more in the incarcerated added a spiritual dimension to the groundswell weve seen in favor of prison reform which reached new heights thursday as a group of bipartisan senators proposed groundbreaking criminal justice reforms including more emphasis on re-entry programs for the recently released. that last component is vital as a five-year study by the bureau of justice statistics found that nearly 5...

From where they have been with respect to this primary. i think its important for the media to make sure they are honest about who they are and what they have done. >> i have to ask you one last issue about the jails. the system is so big it makes national news. i know we have worked on issues in previous jobs. do you have an issue on what will happen with this huge old jail in los angeles the the sheriff talked about closings down? >> i think hes closing down the old part of the jail. that will...

There is a connection between the two. >> the point that im making here is that the reason you cant solve it is because we are not acknowledging the fact that its so much about race. >> right. >> you know, its not -- everyone agrees violent crime is bad. you know, and that we should be addressing it. but we address it in such a wild and out of control way because the people who are harmed by it working in -- people who are not represented. >> hey, wasnt "weeds" a terribly popular show on show ti...

Best, most secure way to deal with this problem is to create more treatment, more re-entry programs. all of this money that was supposed to be made available now, and like the money that became available after defense spending was supposedly no longer necessary seems to be going right back into incarceration. >> can i answer this question? >> yes. please. since we are role playing, lets just go the whole way. >> here is the problem with the treatment problem in the country. the problem with the ...