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Can i ask, how long are you in for and whats your sentence? >> im currently incarcerated right now under the three strike law. i committed a nonviolent, non weapons involved, no physical injury, second-degree robbery. and you know the crazy thing? i got almost as much time as him, 30 years to life. >> can i ask you what the crime was, sir? >> first-degree murder. >> okay. >> i got a possession of a firearm and im doing almost life and they turned me into a career criminal where ive never been a ...

>> out of the 35 state prisons in california, this by far is the best as far as educational self-help development programs, whereas at these other prisons, the resources arent available. the programs arent there. we worked our way down from those higher-level security institutions by obeying the rules, staying out of trouble, programming, doing what is necessary to get out of those places. >> but recognition about change, it seems like thats a hard thing for people to swallow because they dont t...

Mistaken for boot camp, its not only the inmates who march in formation. >> one! two! three! >> every two months, the rapid response teams from santa rosa and three other state prisons come together for training. >> one, two, three, four! one, two, three, four! >> your left! >> its a team comprised of officers to respond to any event that may happen at our correctional facilities for riot control, disturbances or incidents of that nature. >> forward, halt! >> if we had a large-scale incident, we...

Ticket or marijuana cigarette, hold them in your jail and use your resources. >> there are known murderers and in prison. >> and if they were letting him go, the feds asked him to be held. he can potentially commit other felonies. how can they just let him go? >> thats part of it. the problem is in practice these state prisons and jails are left on for weeks or months waiting for these prisoners. the states are not setting the laws, the federal government is. >> hand him over to state authoritie...

Hold them in your jail and use your resources. >> there are known murderers and in prison. >> and if they were letting him go, the feds asked him to be held. he can potentially commit other felonies. how can they just let him go? >> thats part of it. the problem is in practice these state prisons and jails are left on for weeks or months waiting for these prisoners. the states are not setting the laws, the federal government is. >> hand him over to state authorities and prosecute them. >> shanno...

Were ahead of russia, rwanda, brazil, australia and the other developed countries. about 2.3 million americans are locked up. 8% in federal prisons, 28% in local jails. about 60% are in state prisons. about 2% are youths. one out of five of all of our prisoners are in jail because of drugs which greatly dominates on the federal level. also another component to the prison issue and that is the rise of private prisons to offset the overcrowding and government-run prisons. ibis world released a rep...

>> i havent actually went out gang-banging, shooting at people just because theyre from across town and all that. i havent done that in years. but i still hang with my homeboys. and if something happened to one of my close, close ones im going to have to help retaliate. you know what i mean? >> dooker loc, on the other hand, was still caught up in the game. he was still infatuated with this romantic notion of being a gangster. >> what do you want for your future? >> money, power, respect. top of...

A common goal, several institutions, okaloosa, walton, century, the igs canine. what were doing this morning, mass search. our goal is to identify, locate and remove items of contraband, making santa rosa a safer place for the inmates and the staff. >> todays search will cover two housing units and involve officers from santa rosa, three other state prisons, and the states inspector generals k-9 unit. the dogs are trained detect the scents of both drugs and cell phones. >> weve got six different...

Now it functions as such, thanks to a recent law that diverts thousands of convicts here from overcrowded state prisons. ♪ money make the world go round ♪ ♪ my ego got the girl going down ♪ ♪ because you dont know how low she go ♪ >> all these inmates will someday be released to the streets of sacramento. so the new law brings significant funding for job training and re-entry programs in hopes of providing them the help they need to not return. >> when i was locked up, i had no motiv...