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Family member or a friend. >> visitation is an important right for inmates but it also poses a security risk. it's one of the chief ways drugs and other contraband can be smuggled into the jail. >> at new york city's rikers island, we found the correctional staff wasn't about to let that happen. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to new york city department of corrections. >> my name is officer p. hunt, 9865. i'm a member of the k-9 unit, narcotics unit. today we're going to do a narcotics search. we board the bus and look for any type of illegal substance. crack, cocaine, mariju...

Encouraged. >> like being on a college campus, there was a lot of freedom of movement, there were very few heavy doors. if it weren't for the razor wire and orange jumpsuits you would never know you're in prison. >> translator: but this prison, don't make a mistake, it is a prison like every other prison. there's a mantle of strict security. we have fences. we have a k-9 unit and we have camera and television and closed circuit. we have patrols. we have a patrol on foot and we have an outside vehicular patrol. >> even know it is centered around the therapeutic programs, officials here don't ta...

it was a key question today. the secretary of homeland security, the department which oversees the secret service was in the hot seat on capitol hill. >> to your knowledge, is this the first time something like this has happened? >> there was nothing in the record to suggest that this would happen. >> and in fact, it said one agent that wasn't implicated in the matter but talked to the post off the record said, quote, of course this has happened before. this is not the first time. another agent said, and i quote, you take a bunch of guys out of the country and a lot of women showerin...

winks and nods in the secret service. is the culture to blame for the scandal? it was a key question today. the secretary of homeland security, the department which oversees the secret service was in the hot seat on capitol hill. >> to your knowledge, is this the first time something like this has happened? >> there was nothing in the record to suggest that this would happen. >> and in fact, it said one agent that wasn't implicated in the matter but talked to the post off the record said, quote, of course this has happened before. this is not the first time. another agent said, and i...

Secret service who do their jobs responsibly and campaign every moment. but nonetheless, those people who are responsible have brought disgrace. and it's disgusting. >> "the washington post" reports that one of the supervisors who has been accused of inappropriate behavior was in charge of the k-9 unit while the other was in the international programs division. >> one of the secret service guys who was fired put on his facebook a picture of him standing behind sarah palin where he was wearing a dark suit and sunglasses. he wrote later in the comments, i was really checking her out if you know ...