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Disconnect between the notion of rehabilitation in prison and the real burdens the institutions put on inmates. The key of a return to normal life or the cost of keeping Families Together may be more than the prisoners or the prison system can afford. Lori jane gliha reports on the high price of staying connected. Every year on their birthdays, bethany fraziers boys looked forward to a special call. One running to pick it up. Kids, daddy, were running down the stairs and grabbing the phone. The voice on the other end of the phone came from their father, quincy frazier. Where he is serving time...

This program is about 90 minutes. Mr. Bond Justice Thomas, thank your for being with us on explorations in black leadership. I want to begin with a question about brown v board. Did you have some sense that this was a big deal . Justice thomas well, not at the time. The big deal was learning the multiplication table and learning how to add, but as the years went on, particularly 1956, 1957, you got a sense of it because there was quite a bit of talk about it. My grandfather was very involved in the naacp, for example. So you heard that. You also heard, as i mentioned when i wrote my memoirs, t...

Justice thomas i did not think i would even see the building where he worked. Mr. Bond did you have some idea of what it might mean, what it could mean as opposed to what it might have turned out to mean . Justice thomas you know, my grandfather was an interesting man. And he felt that as you as these rights were vindicated, that we had an obligation to measure up, to use them. I would give you an example. When the Savannah Public Library finally desegregated and we were allowed to go to the main library, his point was that we were obligated to use it. That is, we had to show up no matter what...

And the view from the other angle, when citizens turn their cameras on the cops. Theyre going to do all they can to arrest us to prevent us from recording it. Is it really against the law . America tonights adam may on the record and the law. Later this hour saving our ship. The ss United States gets a lifeline that could get a plug. Good evening. In ferguson, staten island, cleveland and all the other cities where clashes between cops and their communities have ignited flash points over Excessive Police force, we wonder what would have made a difference . Could video recordings later answer q...

From a low income family. They probably think that i am dangerous. And i have to live with that. America tonight sarah hoye gets real with black parents, their kids and what they need to do to stay after other americas streets. Do you fear for them . I dont want to raise my children to operate out of fear. What i want for raise them with is with awareness. And the struggle for opportunity. Why the law keeps people like sarah from saving for her own future. I want people to know that i am just like you. America tonights Sheila Macvicar on what this very able advocate did to change that. Good ev...