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Racism, promoting inmate-on-inmate violence. how it was in the beginning it shall be in the end. the righteous shall live and the wicked shall perish. >> ever since it opened in 1989, pelican bay state prison in northern california has always had a reputation as one of the most violent and volatile penitentiaries in the nation. when we first visited the institution in 2000, it was under lockdown, still reeling from one of the worst prison riots in u.s. history. five years later, we went back inside pelican bay, where the staff has worked to curb gang activity and prevent violent outbreaks but ...

Abandoned prison auditorium. >> the musical program was a great thing because of the fact we would have competition against other penitentiaries. and stateville was always number one. in here it's like a cage of awaiting execution because there's nothing for a man to do and no programs or nothing. you're just sitting here like a commodity. you know, a price tag on your forehead with nothing to do. >> rehabilitation, what's that? they erased that out of the dictionary here. there's no such thing as rehabilitation. it's about money. it's all about money. if they can keep a number on you and keep...

Attitudes towards sex in male penitentiaries are complex. according to the convict code, child molesters and rapists are reviled. but homosexuals can live freely in prison as long as they adhere to other parts of the code. mind your own business. and never show weakness. >> well, the boys seem to have no problem. they love us. i mean, we're like gold in here. we really are. there are very few of us. oh, please. maybe not for you. anyway, they treat us just like they treat anybody else. long as we give them their respect and don't cross those boundaries, we get treated just like anybody else. >...

>> and now it's time to talk about jobs. >> all right. let talk about jobs. here's one, neil bowlen's job with the faa new on furlough. >> i have a hard time understanding their partisan bickering and rhetoric. we're reaching into our investments, savings, signed up for unemployment, and that's barely going to make the electric bill, much less the water and mortgage, so, yeah, we're incredibly disappointed. >> he says congress could have prevented his ordeal with just a day's work. here's why they failed to. it's a little complex but worth knowing. since 2007 the faa has been running...

might be losing their paychecks. that's because badly-needed construction at american airports is at a standstill. air safety inspectors, for instance, are working without any pay. and the government is not collecting $200 million a week in airline ticket taxes. that's 1 billion tax dollars lost between now and when congress gets back to work. now remember, the lawmakers responsible for blowing this hole in the budget just spent months railing about the deficit. and when they got done with that, all they could talk about was jobs and how are going to be focused on creating jobs. >> t...