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The assistant u.s. attorney for the doj's civil rights division, kristin clark, said that people held in jails and prisons should not have to surrender their constitutional freedoms at the jailhouse door. >> addressing conditions of confinement in our country requires focus on the conditions that exist inside our jails. detention or incarceration in jail should not include exposure to unconstitutional living conditions that places lives in jeopardy or risk of serious harm from assaults. jail facilities must provide constitutional and humane conditions in which all people can live safely while ...

Things are moving in the right direction finally. this week the two prison guards who were supposed to be watching him the night he was found dead, they have been charged, five counts of falsifying records and one count of conspiracy to try to cover it up. the woman in charge of prisons in america, kathleen sawyer got grilled by senators is weak for letting the most famous federal inmate die on her watch. >> we have a whole bunch of women who were raped by this guy, this is a trafficking ring in the united states and i think your quote was a we treat every inmate the same, this is an individua...

Are so many questions out there. things are moving in the right direction finally. this week the two prison guards who were supposed to be watching him the night he was found dead, they have been charged, five counts of falsifying records and one count of conspiracy to try to cover it up. the woman in charge of prisons in america, kathleen sawyer got grilled by senators is weak for letting the most famous federal inmate die on her watch. >> we have a whole bunch of women who were raped by this guy, this is a trafficking ring in the united states and i think your quote was a we treat every inma...

Interview and talk to these people we identify as gang leaders and violent crime offenders and warn them that we are going to be looking for them and looking to hit them for these crimes yet our state's attorney if you are arrested with a gun she let's you out on a bond or no bond. >> martha: why is it lowered so much and why do have you this constant recycling of people leaving jail facilities back out on the street to do the same thing to somebody else or as you say to become the victim? >> you have good-hard working police officers here that are handcuffed because they don't -- they are not...

Orange county jail. >> what are you in for? >> disturbing the peace. >> have you been in jail before? >> no, sir. >> all right. look here at the camera for me. >> the orange county jail is comprised of five separate jail facilities. the largest of these is the theo lacey jail, with an average daily population of 2,800 male inmates. theo lacey alone dwarfs many state prisons. >> i have an assistant sheriff at theo lacey. he always likes to say we don't have andy of mayberry. we don't have otis coming into the jail tank. that's not the kind of county jail inmate we've got. we have 400 people in ...