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Sense is not adhered to and people rich and powerful and connected are able to get away with things normal people can't. this story combines the arguments with grotesque crimes and you can see why people are geared towards conspiracy thinking in this front. >> i think it's too soon to jump to any kind of conclusions. we have significant issues within our correction system when it comes to suicide. 7% of the deaths of inmate as of 2014 are due to suicide. it's a huge problem in state prisons. less so in federal prisons. we have the issue in the absence of jeffery epstein it will be difficult to...

Has not done this since 2016. this is a more of an issue in federal than state prisons. the deaths in 2014, many were due to suicide. this is something that obviously, within the correction system, both at the state and federal level, you need to be addressed when it comes to monitoring on mental health. i know the state of texas has looked into that and actually passed laws in regard to how they deal with suicide watch and interventions on behalf of mental health and addiction for those who might be on suicide watch. as far as i'm concerned, if a guy did commit suicide, it's one of the most c...

109. >> assembly bill 109 passed in 2011 in california. it was aimed at reducing the prison population and also called for a certain nonviolent felon to serve time in county jails rather than state prisons. today the california attorney general told fox news that we should always be prepared to reevaluate laws but noted it's never easy. >> rick: has he done that before? what else do we know about it? >> he has a long criminal rap sheet. he's 33-year-old zachary castanada, a documented gang member with a long criminal history including weapon and drug convictions. the crime spree was chaotic. i...

We've actually seen the opposite happen. often more incarceration is associated with more crime. there are a lot of cases around the country where the incarceration is doing more harm than the original offense. not just that, but some of these harms are generational. and what we see today is a whole generation of people, in the wake of the crime policies of the '90s, where the incarceration of a parent became a traumatic childhood experience that was unnecessary, that didn't make us safer, and that made that child more likely to grow up and wind up encountering the criminal justice system them...

Orange county jail. >> what are you in for? >> disturbing the peace. >> have you been in jail before? >> no, sir. >> all right. look here at the camera for me. >> the orange county jail is comprised of five separate jail facilities. the largest of these is the theo lacey jail, with an average daily population of 2,800 male inmates. theo lacey alone dwarfs many state prisons. >> i have an assistant sheriff at theo lacey. he always likes to say we don't have andy of mayberry. we don't have otis coming into the jail tank. that's not the kind of county jail inmate we've got. we have 400 people in ...