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>> reporter: so now they have the barriers. they have also lowered the security gate at this exit over here. trying to prevent police from coming in and also preventing people from being able to get out. . >> again, janis, no indication why this escalated so quickly from a peaceful protest just hours ago, within the last couple of hours she talked about, to this? we don't know what sparked the intensity of emotion here? >> reporter: there is an intensity to this. but i didn't see it over the weekend. and there was this sense that both sides -- the protests had grown pro-violent. a lot of prote...

Have seen mainly because of drug sentencing laws the prison population in the united states go up not double, not triple, but go up by seven times. according to one pew study, nonpartisan group, annual state and federal spending on corrections has also grown by 300% during the past two decades to about $52 billion. what do you think is the cost, not only that financial cost, i just mentioned but societal cost of deciding to create laws, particularly the mandatory minimums and three strikes laws for nonviolent offenders that incarcerate so many people. >> well, i think that what -- when we are ...

But i think that dab the chasm that's being created is -- more about pro-violent -- i have to use that term in quotes because -- we hear it in the news often. but we are criminalizing people and if you look at the mums, there are lots of people of color who are suffering from this -- criminalization and a -- wearing the scarlet letter far beyond the years they are turfing and i think we have to really reassess, you know, who we are sending away why we are sending them away. and the lengths that they are serving not to mention what is being offered to them or not while they are doing their time...