Page 19 - Security Facility News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Prisoners even today. >> it's not the feel of being intimidated by another person. it's the sounds, the movements, the keys that rattle. the silence at night. the yells, the screams. you watch horror movies? this is a horror movie right here, and we live it every day. >> many of the inmates at folsom are serving time for violent crimes. over 700 are serving life sentences for murder. due to the hazards presented by its archaic design, folsom no longer qualifies as a level 4 maximum security prison. therefore, it's been downgraded to a level two medium security facility. >> a level two is only ...

Today to other prisons to finish serving out their time. kent hill has been looking forward to this day for a long time. >> it's taken me almost two years to get away from here. a lot of us have been waiting that long. so, this is a good day for us. >> our primary goal with them is when we have an inmate that we receive that is a behavior problem, it's to get that individual back on a positive behavior track and ultimately move him into a lesser security facility. >> it's a matter of degree of danger because anytime you take an inmate out of the facility, there's always the possibility of an e...

You watch horror movies? this is a horror movie right here, and we live it every day. >> many of the inmates at folsom are serving time for violent crimes. over 700 are serving life sentences for murder. due to the hazards presented by its archaic design, folsom no longer qualifies as a level 4 maximum security prison. therefore, it's been downgraded to a level two medium security facility. >> a level two is only a classification score within two, three seconds, that same individual in level two could stab another individual, could assault a staff member, and he has now become a level four ind...

>> you have to be serious. serious about it. it's real easy to get kind of lax around here because you're dealing with people and you're dealing with guys really trying to wear you down and find a weakness in you. so i'd say serious. serious at the penitentiary, you know. >> even as white stands vigil, the day is also beginning for some new arrivals to the prison. many of them will end up spending more time here than most of the guards will in their entire career. walking through the first of many outer gates, there's no mistaking this for a minimum or medium security facility. stateville's re...

>> and the state department's plan of action moving forward, are you confident it's sufficient? >> it's sufficient as long as we fund it. but, again, the fact that the republicans had a chance to do it in the house of representatives and still wouldn't suggests, you know, i don't know what their motivations are. but clearly they're not serious about giving her the resources she needs. but let's say this last one thing is that we also have to understand the limitations of the security that we can provide. we're not going to go into bunkers. our diplomats are going to be on the front lines. and ...