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At all times. though the inmates lives are tightly controlled even the most routine activities can suddenly turn deadly. >> make sure you got everything out of your pockets. we got 47 going out on chains and they all got to be back and ready to go by 9:30. usually the chain mornings are rush-rush. >> every day a number of inmates are transported either to court or to other state prisons. correctional officers call the transportation process going out on chain. >> what we do is we he call the blo...

Was gone. its not sure if the money disappeared before the plane left zurich or after it arrived in new york. >> and have you heard that inmates most at risk of contracting this valley fever have to be moved out of two state prisons. its a potentially deadly fungus that thrives in dry soil. a federal judge has given the jail seven days to start the process. several thousand inmates are affected. >> and police have spent a lot of time searching the property of aaron des in the death of odin lloyd...

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 ...

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 know what i mean? its just whatever happens happens. >> having been...

For family ties. where you can get a lesser sentence because your children are nearby and you want to play a role in their life. do you think theres a bigger place for reform here at the federal level to try to have family ties be a bigger metric to reduce the overall prison time that at least nonviolent offenders have? >> i think for every prison system, whether its a federal or state or local, we need to consider families and the need to the they have for the father or the incarcerated parent,...

For the families theyve left hip. the california department of corrections just announced it will start holding similar camps and begin a father/child reading program in all 33 state prisons. camp hope is just one innovative outreach effort created by our next guest. with us is the founder and executive director, carol. thank you for being with us. i want to play devils advocate here. at the beginning, why should we want fathers who are convicted criminals to be spending time with their children...

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 either to court or to other...

>> you dont want to do it, but youre going to do it, okay? >> okay. >> im serious. you dont have to marry him. >> yeah, i mean, it seem that way. youre placing this inmate in the cell with me. i mean were not -- were not outside the cell all day. were inside that cell all day. >> yeah, but that should have been a consideration before you went to prison. >> the committee is baffled, not only by hamiltons stubbornness but by its sudden appearance after nine years behind bars at other state prisons...

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, three other state prisons, and the states inspector general...

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 canine unit. the dogs are trained detect the scents of both drugs and cell phones. >> weve got six different search teams. some ...