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Providing support for exoffenders. if we can get those bills together, im somewhat optimistic well be. able to make a difference. when you use the term mass incarceration, statistically the overwhelming majority of people incarcerated are in state prisons and state facilities for state crimes. we can only focus on federal law and federal crimes. so theres still going to be a large population of individuals who are incarcerated even for nonviolent drug crimes because this is a trend that started ...

Now it functions as such, thanks to a recent law that diverts thousands of convicts here all -- from overcrowded state prisons. ♪ money make the world go round ♪ ♪ my ego got the girl going down ♪ >> all these inmates will someday be released toçó 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 motivation. now i see inmates with moti...

Comcast business. built for business. >> as the capital of california, sacramento is the worlds eighth largest economy. while decisions made here could have global impact, nestled among its downtown skyscrapers and government buildings is a reminder of local concerns. the main branch houses about 2,000 men and women. like traditional jails, most of them are only charged with crimes and awaiting resolution for trials and cases. sacramentos main jail is also affected by ab-109. a law that divert...

Sentences. thats due, in part, to a 2011 law known as ap-109. it was created to help relieve the californias state prison systems once dangerously over-crowded conditions. now, thousands of inmates who normally would have gone to prison are diverted to county jails. the law has drastically changed the make-up of the inmate population with more convicts serving hard time as opposed to shorter term, not-convicted inmates still awaiting trial. >> it has brought some very unique challenges to us. nu...

Three strikes was an initiative that said, look, if you get two serious or violent felony, the third strike, locked up 25 to life. increased the population of state prisons to be sure but filling the state prisons with folks that had a demonstrated track record of victimizing others. >> it would appear that this get tough on crime initiative was voted in because of offenders like gregory gavin. >> a lot of this charges, theft and violence. seems to be his claim to fame. >> his first two were for...

Appreciate you guys coming. i want to recognize that we have over 50 people dedicated for this mission today. its good to see everybody coming together, working toward 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...

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 would want to make sure that we had a complement of officers that could address that and we adopted some military mobile field force-type training and we ...

Federal prison that theyre being released from, not the state prisons. >> yes. its an interesting move. you know, i think california has the most people incarcerated in one single space than anywhere in the entire world. and all of that takes place in our prisons. not in our federal prisons but in our state prisons. ive had a firsthand encounter of being there myself as a wrongfully convicted man. being in prison, being in dorms, being in jim naz y comes where thereby three-tiered bunk beds insi...

Worked out. thats going to take some time. its not exactly working beautifully in the congress right now. so is the real question about whether it will get through this session, but it does seem like theres enough momentum that maybe this one or the next one. >> and in terms of what this would actually mean, you have dick durban describing this as a major sea change. practically speaking, what would the impact be? >> it would reduce overpopulation in the federal prison. most of the prisoners in ...

>> 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? >> duker 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 the f...