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By whatever agency in los angeles county. generally all agencies book into now the consolidated booking system which is l.a. county jail system. >> with close to a hundred buses inmates are picked up from the various courts and police stations in the county of los angeles. their first stop inside l.a. county jail is the inmate reception center. >> on the busy days on monday through tuesday we're talking about anywhere from 600 to 800 inmates that are being booked each of those days. wednesdays, thursdays, and fridays the number is somewhat less, but we average about 400 a day if you take out t...

Because then i'll be accused of being soft on crime. i really think the question we should be asking is why were we spending all of this money to lock these people up for more than ten years and the irony is when the prisons get overcrowded, you know, they start letting people out and in many cases the people that get out are people who were much more dangerous to society. much more harm they have done than the people we're keeping in. >> so bottom line. >> you have to be smart about this stuff. >> bottom line you agree with this and think it will serve a service. >> i think it's long overdo a...

Drug dealers are over half the federal prison population and a quarter of those were street dealers. we have a lot of street dealers taking up prison cells for five years and ten years and 20 years and those are prison cells that are not available for people who, in my estimation, pose a far greater risk to public safety. >> you're talking about the financial aspect of this. the number of people incarcerated shs the cost that comes with that. when i listen to john cornyn, he stresses rehabilitation. it occurs to me in generating support for had on the right, there's a financial aspect of it, b...

We have everything. nothing is lacking. we have a television. we have a radio, a cd player, dvds, fans, shelves, there is a cabinet where we put all our clothes. a shower. nothing is lacking. >> rimonim has both two-man and six-man cells, all of which more resemble college dormitories than american prison cells. and while most american inmates are not allowed to bring personal items beyond wedding bands or religious medallions with them, israeli inmates pack their bags before coming to prison. >> translator: you bring everything with you when you turn yourself in, clothing, shoes, electrical a...

Hands. other chief national correspondent jim sciutto is joining me. i've spoke to several officials and military personnel who are outraged. >> there are 23 pages of this report and these were not minor players. 25 linked to the production of ieds, roadside bombs. a third tested positive for explosives when they were captured. together, they are responsible for coalition fighters and now they are free. they are behind dozens of deadly attacks on american soldiers. from roadside bombs like this one, armed ambushes. many have links to al qaeda but now the 65 enemy fighters, seen here as they le...