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We closed seven state prisons. our estimate of the population of 30,000 prisoners is down to 21,000 because reduced recidivism by having programs to encourage inmates to participate that helps us reduce their recidivism by increasing their readiness for the real world, giving them job skills, programs, and other programs that we have been able to prove reduces the likelihood of reoffending. >> shannon: doj told politico an analyst said that the measure doesnt contain any exclusions for people co...

Example of that. we close 7 state prisons, estimated population of 30,000 prisoners down to 21,000 because we reduced recidivism by adding programs to force or encourage inmates to participate in that helps reduce recidivism by increasing their readiness for the real world, giving them job skills and other programs we have been able to prove reduces the likelihood of reoffending. >> doj did tell politico an analyst said to them the measure doesnt contain any exclusions for people convicted of cr...

Constand coming out of the courtroom and, judge, she is quite pleased. janet dickerson hugging her as she has been standing beside her side. a lot of these accusers have banded together. >> she has been living with this for an awfully long time and finally finally she sees finality and she has a judge who did the right thing, if anything he was a touch generous, but he did the right thing by sending cosby to a maximum facility, maximum security facility and no bail, im sure she is happy that jus...

Straight to state prison, how do you think bill cosby would fare in prison? >> bill cosby will do very well in state prison, believe it or not. >> why? >> bill cosby, his celebrity translates into a state prison. this is not a child molest, which is the worst thing if you go into state prison. generally youll never survive your sentence or five times out of ten you wont survive your sentence. because of a lot of the things that hes done, he will do okay there. physically his health is a concern....

Hes going to have to report. there are a number of requirements when it comes to sexually violent predators and sexual predators in general that a judge can mete out and also counseling that is available to some degree in state prisons. >> and the judge also said he will be required to take a sex offenders program in the state facility. the defense is motioning for bail pending appeal. >> and they want him to have time out, as much time as possible. obviously they want to appeal. theyre hoping i...

>> most illegal immigrants enter the u.s. looking for a better life, not a life of crime. but incidents like this tell a story statistics do not. >> illegal immigrants are about half as likely as native born americans to be incarcerated in the united states. >> studies show illegal immigrants commit less crime than citizens, though some state prisons say otherwise. >> any population at large, you will have some murderers, robbers, some rapists. several be deported and some will come come back fr...

>> i was ready. >> reporter: most illegal immigrants entered the us looking for a better life, not a life of crime. incidents like this tell a story statistics do not. >> illegal immigrants half as likely as nativeborn americans to be incarcerated in the united states. >> reporter: studies show illegal immigrants commit less crimes than citizens, state prisons say otherwise. >> any population has murderous, robbers and rapists. some are going to be deported and some will try to come back. >> you...

Reform. jeff sessions says we need more prisons. you also have a lot of reformers in your party. where do you fall in this sort of -- you know, reform versus more of the same? >> we closed six state prisons. we dropped population from the estimation around 30,000 down to about 19,000. crime has gone down in our state. there is a responsible way of using those that are incarcerated. is there a way to bring that number down significantly and reward people enkaincarcerated? the answer is yes. you c...

They have experience. they run 11 of these immigrants -- so they have a lot of state prisons, a lot of other things. geogroup the biggest one has 11 immigrant processing centers and then the one family residential center is in kearns city, texas. >> yeah, in dilly texas, thats the family. >> why cant the government do this? >> its -- these companies have been doing it for a long time i guess theres certainly no reason why the government cant do it. they did it before. they do some of it now. >> ...

Decades. some including chuck grassley are pushing for those changes to be included. looking at the scope of the prison issue, there are now 2.3 million inmates housed in u.s. prisons. approximately 460,000 of them for drug offenses. there are 102 federal prisons. more than 1700 state prisons. and more than 1800 juvenile facilities, and some 636,000 inmates are released from those facilities each year. are we releasing them in a position to thrive? joining me now garrett haake live on the hill. ...