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With this and what his situation brings to us. i mean, technically, we keep him until he is 21. well could do that. i don't imagine we'll have him until he is 21. but no one has really made that decision. we haven't crossed how long he'll stay here. >> i think the juvenile justice system is fully capable of dealing with this situation, and in fact they are fully dealing with it right now. he is in the juvenile justice system. if the judge's order stands, he won't be here for very much longer. but he is strives in this system. >> having worked in prison systems for many years, mike dempsey know...

For example, there's a california 12. they're fighting for 12 wrongfully convicted men and women who have exhausted all efforts towards their exoneration. they' gone through the chain of chain of command in the court system and now they're begging for clemency from the government. >> however crowd d crowded are the prison systems and filled with impeachment who just should not be there. how awful is it? >> it's pretty awful. i met some of the most interesting people behind bars. during my time there. some of the smartest, most kindest, wisest people. i've met behind bars, even the officers. th...

Maintained they still have been wrongly convicted. msnbc legal correspondent arly melber joins me now with more on the issue. one of those men wrongfully convicted and the twist of fate in his life is like a movie. >> it is a pretty incredible story. i spent time in chicago with jared adams, he spent nine years in prison for a crime he insisted he did not commit. taught himself to lawyer while in prison. appealed through the project, got the innocence project in wisconsin to take his case and it went all the way up to the 7th circuit, the to the court in the midwest. they overturned his convic...

So we're learning how to deal with this and what this situation brings to us. technically not until he's 21 we could do that. >> i think the juvenile system is fully capable of dealing with this situation and, in fact, they are fully dealing with it right now. he is in the juvenile justice system. if the judge's order stands, he won't be here for very much longer. but he's thriving in this system. he's doing terrific. >> where did that attitude change come from? >> having worked in prison systems many years, miem dempsey knows special steps must be taken dealing with young inmates. >> there's ...

>> life means getting our feet dirty, from the dust-filled roads of life and history, all of us need to be cleansed, to be washed, all of us, and me in first place. all of us are being sought out by the teacher, who wants to help us resume our journey. the lord goes in search of us, to all of us he stretches out a helping hand. it is painful when we see prison systems which are not concerned to care for wounds, to soothe pain, to offer new possibilities. it is painful when we see people who think that only others need to be cleansed, purified, and do not recognize that they're weariness, pain ...