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Peggy perales' pen pal relationships with two inmates from rival gangs have already caught the attention of the bexar county jail's gang intelligence division. >> so you got a guy that you have a child with but you're writing to somebody else as well? correct? >> one of the letters written to perales was intercepted by mail room staff, who suspected it might contain gang codes. now, she has some new trouble. >> perales? >> yes, sir. >> since the last time we spoke to her we did a background check on her history in the facility and her last incarceration, she was involved in a report, she was a...

Will tell whether or not you come back to prison or not is education. >> program director eric courtney oversees the program that puts rival gang members side by side. >> what kind of things do you want to teach your daughter that maybe your father wasn't around to teach you? what kind of things different do you want to do with yours? >> teach her to get an education. >> in general population, gd, and the vice boards, they wouldn't associate, they would be against each other, they wouldn't talk. in here, since they're isolated, they have to. they have to, they realize they're more the same, mo...

Taiwan. no word on whether the u.s. will accept an invitation to take part in the next round of syrian peace talks. turkey said the u.s. would be asked to join those talks, the talks scheduled for january 23rd. that's just three days after donald trump takes the oath of office. special military police are responding to a number prison riot in northern brazil. a government spokeswoman says at least ten inmates have been killed there. the riot began after an altercation broke out between two rival gangs. this is brazil's fifth deadly prison riot in two weeks. the u.s. president-elect, donald tru...

We've already improved and expanded deeslation training and we're upgrading our use of force policies. we're providing every officer with body cameras and tasers. we've expanded recruitment efforts to ensure that the department draws on all the communities that make up this great city. as a result of our efforts, today, the chicago police department has the most diverse command staff in its history. >> brooke, something that we heard over and over before from the community was members of rival gangs were taken to other rival gang territories and dropped off when they weren't giving the informa...

>> translator: i want to know how my son is. my son is in there. >> translator: this is a bullet. >> reporter: anguish is plain to see on their face. violence broke out sunday in the heart of the amazon near the city of manaus. the riot was sparked by a battle between rival gangs. hostages were taken. the bodies of those killed were thrown over the prison walls. some decapitated. >> translator: there were deaths, unfortunately. we have some outside the prison who were thrown from the prison by the inmates themselves. there have been escapes. we don't yet know how many. we're already looking fo...