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For possession? >> i think -- >> do you say? >> i do. i think the criminals are busted for dealing or else the prosecutor probably wouldnt take the case. but i agree with you on this. im little bit to be. im simp thet toik a lot of civil rights leaders are calling for this. when the drug laws came out, they treated crack worse than cocaine. if you have a small amount of cocaine, you get a slap on the wrist. found with crack, you get ten years. i can see that point but i think this is an effort b...

Officers of the brushy mountain correctional center in eastern tennessee know the importance of staying vigilant at all times. though the inmates lives are tightly controlled, even the most routine activities can suddenly turn deadly. >> make sure youve got everything out of your pockets. >> weve got 47 going out on chains and they have all got to be bagged and ready to go by 9:30. so usually the chain mornings are rush, rush. >> every day a number of brushy mountain inmates are transported eith...

>> handcuff key is like mainly for my defense. >> looking at probably one of the biggest screw-ups in the united states sitting right here looking at you. >> an old-timer counts his losses. >> lost my brother, sister, mother, pretty much my whole familys passed away since ive been in here. >> im like an outcast. scum of the earth here. >> and a younger inmate looks forward to hitting the streets. there are more than 102,000 men and women doing time in the florida state prison system. of the 56...

>> lost my brother, sister, mother, pretty much my whole familys passed away since ive been in here. >> im like an outcast. scum of the earth here. >> and a younger inmate looks forward to hitting the streets. there are more than 102,000 men and women doing time in the florida state prison system. of the 56 state prisons for men, one is considered the end of the line. the place male inmates go when other prisons cant handle them. the santa rosa correctional institution located in floridas panh...

>> 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 would want to make sure that we had a complement of officers that could ...

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 food chain. >> everybodys like that when theyre young. they dont see the big picture. they cant see it yet. you kno...

More than the entire gdp of croatia or tunisia. well, it seems that finally common sense has prevailed. >> thank you. >> attorney general eric holder made an important speech this week, admitting that our prisons are overcrowded and costly. he specifically called for a reduction in mandatory sentences for low-level drug offenders. >> will no longer be charged with offenses that impose draconian mandatory minimum sentences. >> its important the attorney general brought up drugs, because the numbe...

Sounds too good to be true? well, listen in. for many years, the united states has had a growing problem in its criminal justice system. as ive pointed out before, we are number one in the world when it comes to incarceration, by far. in 2009, for example, for every 100,000 citizens, 760 americans were in prison. that was five times the rate of incarceration in britain, eight times the rate in germany and south korea and 12 times the rate in japan. it began about 40 years ago. in 1970 state pris...

America, shows that our politicians are learning from their mistakes and are actually cooperating with each other, on both sides of the aisle. sounds too good to be true? well, listen in. for many years, the united states has had a growing problem in its criminal justice system. as ive pointed out before, we are number one in the world when it comes to incarceration, by far. in 2009, for example, for every 100,000 citizens, 760 americans were in prison. that was five times the rate of incarcerat...

>> attorney general eric holder made an important speech this week, admitting that our prisons are overcrowded and costly. he specifically called for a reduction in mandatory sentences for low-level drug offenders. >> will no longer be charged with offenses that impose draconian mandatory minimum sentences. >> its important the attorney general brought up drugs, because the numbers are startling. federal prisons, the group holder was referring to, account for 14% of our total inmates. in these p...