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This, it's working quite effectively. so i think it's very important that we focus on that. it's not a wholesale exiting from prison systems. we have to do better than that. >> it's important point about the state level in texas is the ultimate example a bt how the politics has changed. rick perry, john cornyn, texas is one of the states. former democratic nominee is going to be sticking around with us. i want to thank john malcolm and mary price. john will also be sticking around. more next. don't worry! the united states postal service will get it there on time with priority mail flat rate s...

We haven't even gotten to the fact that inside a lot of these prison systems, men and women are facing tremendous illegal sexual misconduct. >> that's true. you know, two particularly notorious examples of the problem that i referred to in my testimony include the otter creek correctional facility in kentucky, where 400 women prisoners were moved out of the facility because the correctional system of kentucky, you rrived at the conclusion that they couldn't stop the rape culture and sexual abuse that was taking place there, so rather they moved all those women out. currently in alabama, the tu...

How long they're there for. when we had a violent crime epidemic in the 80s and early 90s, prison systems were really putting their fingers in the dike. they were just trying to figure out some way to keep criminal organizations that were housed in prisons from reaching out into the streets. in california, this experiment reached its apex with pelican bay where you had these men who had been in solitary for this long, they're all convicted murders, but they weren't put there because of that. they were put there because they're validated gang members. under those circumstances, they can put the...

African-american girls? are they more likely to complete school than their male counterparts? >> they absolutely are. one of the bigger issues is we've criminalized the behavior of our boys all the way down to pre-k. we send our children home more often than any other population. >> glenn, why is now a time when real reform could be achieved? >> sure. i'm actually very pleased that the attorney general is finally seeing that our war on drugs is a failure and addressing all the collateral consequences that comes with criminal convictions. part of the impetus came from 2008 when the economy cras...

We uncovered in our reporting, according to the florida department of law enforcement, a so-called cottage industry of these fraudulent documents used in prison systems all throughout the state of florida. >> i remember at the time when wi were talking about it, whether there was questioning whether these guys had inside help in terms of the arrests. do we know if any prison officials will be arrested? >> that's right, a lot of initial speculation is this was an inside job. at this point, there are no officials implicated in the arrest. i asked if that means officials have been entirely cleare...