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Their lives almost every day. >> they look for vulnerable spots. they look for times when you do let your guard down. >> this is death row. in fact, this is california's only male death row where the method of execution is lethal injection. this is where you'll find such vicious killers as richard ramirez, the so-called night stalker, and richard allen davis, the killer of polly klaas. today, the condemned population has grown to a staggering 581, well beyond san quentin's ability to handle them. this forced death row to expand into three additional cell blocks, never designed for such violent...

Rikers island. until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. it's a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. it's made up of ten separate jails, most of them barracks. but some regular cell blocks, as well. strauss-kahn has an 11 by 13 cell himself, but he is separated from other prisoners, phones, tvs and the internet ...

an exclusive island unlike anywhere he has ever been. rikers island. until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. it's a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. it's made up of ten separate jails, most of them barracks. but some regular cell blocks, as well. strauss-kahn has an 11 by 13 cell himself, but he ...

Conditions are appalling. built more 3600, it now houses nearly 10,000. >> in peru, officially, we assume that the criminals had a second chance, and they have to be rehabilitated, but the reality unfortunately is not normally like that, because we don't have enough funds. we don't have enough money and budget. >> reporter: with mass overcrowding, the 21 cell blocks can easily explode into civil war. in 1986, in just one day, 124 prisoners died. with only 100 guards to police 10,000 violent criminals, the peruvian prison service turns power over to the inmates. >> larry: michael griffith, peru...

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