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Go. >> the chatham county detention center houses about 1,500 inmates, most of whom are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. among them is 18-year-old brooklyn day who arrived in savannah nearly two weeks earlier. she and her boyfriend planned a romantic weekend. the only keepsakes they have of this trip are mug shots. >> i came down for the weekend to have fun in taibbi. i was expecting to get back to school that monday and didnt ever think this woul...

>> for the past few weeks day has been living in a housing unit dedicated to the jails female substance abuse program. >> what is the process from the first day you started class to where you are at now from what you learned and what you walk away with? >> well, i really never, ever would have thought that i would be going through this. i didnt think that i had a problem until i was here and sober and able to realize that. >> brooklyn was a big concern for us when she first came in. for a little...

First day you started class to where you are at now from what you learned and what you walk away with? >> well, i really never, ever would have thought that i would be going through this. i didnt think that i had a problem until i was here and sober and able to realize that. >> brooklyn was a big concern for us when she first came in. for a little girl brooklyn had been taking a lot of crazy drugs and her life was very chaotic. she has been able to move to a place where she understands she has a...

Timely appointments. hay couldnt take you off of that list until you had an appointment time that was less than 14 days rb in the cause r case of a 71-year-old u.s. navy veteran, the wait ended sooner. >> he started bleeding in his urine. >> his brooklyn raised father would go nowhere but the va for treatment and on september 28th with blood in his urine and a history of cancer, he was rushed to the va emergency room where he was examined and sent home to wait. >> all they wrote on his chart was...

If you live in new york city or if you are a cop in new york city or if you are responsible for keeping people alive in new york city, you know that there are two places in new york city where the preponderance of murders occur. one is parts of south bronx and another is brooklyn. these are numbers. look at the map of murders. these are numbers. >> look at the numbers of stops, look at the infractions found, look at the small percentage even where a citation was written. the only people who got ...

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