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In the united states offer educational programs for their inmates, spring creek is the country's only maximum security facility to run a fully accredited high school within its walls. >> the program is designed for youthful offenders convicted of a felony offense. they can be in age from 16 to 22 right now. >> wayne young has been the principal of the school for the past five years. >> we have the same curriculum that any regular high school would have. we have three teachers. they're all highly qualified to teach in their content subject areas. we have basically english, math, social studies ...

>> while the majority of prisons in the united states offer educational programs for their inmates, spring creek is the country's only maximum security facility to run a fully accredited high school within its walls. >> the program is designed for youthful offenders convicted of a felony offense. they can be in age from 16 to 22 right now. >> wayne young has been the principal of the school for the past five years. >> we have the same curriculum that any regular high school would have. we have three teachers. they're all highly qualified to teach in their content subject areas. we have basical...

Correspondent of "the nation" joins us from the kloppenberg headquarters. john, this is, seems to be very, very tight tonight starting out. do you expect it to be this way all the way to the finish? >> it could well be, ed. this has been an incredibly intense race, the most expensive court race in wisconsin history and obviously with that overlay of the governor's bill and controversy around it. i can tell you something you'll understand, ed, as somebody who spent a lot of time reporting out of north dakota. in wisconsin the rural areas come in first. those numbers that you're seeing include n...

Is in. david prosser, the incumbent republican with 51% of the vote. joann kloppenburger the challenger, democrat, assistant attorney general is in at 49%. it is very early. tonight john nichols, washington correspondent of "the nation" joins us from the kloppenberg headquarters. john, this is, seems to be very, very tight tonight starting out. do you expect it to be this way all the way to the finish? >> it could well be, ed. this has been an incredibly intense race, the most expensive court race in wisconsin history and obviously with that overlay of the governor's bill and controversy aroun...

Stories going on around america today. in texas, a suspected burglar scheme went horribly wrong when he got stuck trying to break into a vacant home through the chimney. whoops. police came to his rescue after neighbors heard screams for help. firefighters used a crane to free the suspect before turning him over to police. in california, protesters went to great heights to make a statement. chained together, they occupied a fourth floor ledge of a university of california berkeley building to protest university budget cuts. it ended peacefully with a group of students coming down after speak...