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Do you support it? >> well, i would have much preferred the house version and continuing to negotiate. i think it is unfortunate it happened at the end. there were important requirements in that house version. but it is important to get the aid right now to the border and to these kids. i was just at the homestead detention facility last week in -- outside of miami. stood on that ladder, looked down at that hot, baking concrete yard, was able to see the fact that you've got tents expanding facilities, thousands of kids that are housed and this administration just continues the rhetoric. i beli...
Do you support it? >> well, i would have much preferred the house version and continuing to negotiate. i think it is unfortunate it happened at the end. there were important requirements in that house version. but it is important to get the aid right now to the border and to these kids. i was just at the homestead detention facility last week in -- outside of miami. stood on that ladder, looked down at that hot, baking concrete yard, was able to see the fact that you've got tents expanding facilities, thousands of kids that are housed and this administration just continues the rhetoric. i beli...
Intensive management, where extreme measures are required when dealing with inmates. these men are only allowed one 20-minute shower every other day and one hour of exercise a week, alone, in a small, concrete yard. sandbags are used to prevent inmates from flooding the cells with the water from their sinks or toilets. shields are required to protect officers while serving meals. signs designate certain inmates as spitters or slimers, those who throw urine or feces at officers. >> we had an incident not too long ago, where the inmate reached out through the cuff port, stabbed one of our staff,...
A few level fours waiting for transfers. generally all our whites hang out over here, and our asians on this side. and a lot of southern hispanics on the other side playing handball with the whites. and towards the tower, get a lot of northern hispanics inmates and a lot of black hispanics over there. that is where they hang out over there. this is considered the west side of the yard. just on the other side of the yard, the east side of the yard is where all our southerners and whites work out at. in front of the building is where your blacks and your northerners generally work out and hang o...