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despite the new illinois income tax hike ... >>soon after greeting hundreds of kids air after kicking off the school day this morning ... the governor confirmed that thousands of state workers mesa and its layoff notices he squarely blames the state legislature for passing a budget that fell far short of its target for state spending ... >>this is gonna really result in a situation where the state will not have enough money to get to its fiscal year ... >>according to sources from tribune the hardest hit will be social services and correctional centers ... one of the state's largest ...

there's a certain anonymity among people in big city, but boston is tight knit neighborhoods where it does seem like everyone knows your name. even behind the walls of the primary detention facility. suffolk county facility. >> within seven years of this job, numerous people i've known from childhood, from high school, just from the neighborhood itself. >> inmates too, often find themselves among friends and relatives. >> we're brothers. >> that's right. >> though not all suffolk county inmates are housed in the same facility. those charged with a crime and are awaiting trial are hel...

metropolis and home to some of america's earliest historical sights. but like all sittings, there's an underbelly of crime. located just outside downtown is a key landmark in that battle, the suffolk county jail. >> the jail is a maximum security facility, it holds anyone arrested and held on a bail they can't make. it is very frequently someone charged with homicide. >> unlike prison where all inmates have been convicted and sentenced, most jail inmates have only been charged with crimes and are innocent until proven guilty. suffolk county has an average daily population of 700 deta...

visitation draws families together. but it also sparks a crackdown on contra band that grips the entire prison. >> he doesn't want to go out. we have to physically go in there and get him out now. and now we've put our cameras in the hands of inmates who share intimate thoughts about life behind bars. >> caught brian here, this prison will eat you up and spit you out. >> i'm tired of all these bars, watching my days and nights go by. ♪ ♪ a man my age, i should have a car, a house, wife, kids, job, big tvs, big couches. but i gave all of that up to live a life of gang-banging, dru...

numerous water rescues around metro jackson and one apartment complex was evacuated and water started to go into the first floor of that apartment complex. everybody's safe and sound and the waters are now backing off. what we've got now this northerly wind, it's a little nippy. temperatures are dropping in the 60s. a little bit of rain around. the fact that we have the northerly wind, the storm what's left of lee no longer a tropical depression has moved off to the east. let's show you the radar, a lot of rainfall. we have numerous flash flood warnings for counties east of here acro...