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Hold them in your jail and use your resources. >> there are known murderers and in prison. >> and if they were letting him go, the feds asked him to be held. he can potentially commit other felonies. how can they just let him go? >> that's part of it. the problem is in practice these state prisons and jails are left on for weeks or months waiting for these prisoners. the states are not setting the laws, the federal government is. >> hand him over to state authorities and prosecute them. >> shannon: i think we all can

We're ahead of russia, rwanda, brazil, australia and the other developed countries. about 2.3 million americans are locked up. 8% in federal prisons, 28% in local jails. about 60% are in state prisons. about 2% are youths. one out of five of all of our prisoners are in jail because of drugs which greatly dominates on the federal level. also another component to the prison issue and that is the rise of private prisons to offset the overcrowding and government-run prisons. ibis world released a report showing the revenue for all these private facilities and services amounted to $5 billion with a...

>> i haven't actually went out gang-banging, shooting at people just because they're from across town and all that. i haven't done that in years. but i still hang with my homeboys. and if something happened to one of my close, close ones i'm going to have to help retaliate. you know what i mean? >> dooker loc, on the other hand, was still caught up in the game. he was still infatuated with this romantic notion of being a gangster. >> what do you want for your future? >> money, power, respect. top of the food chain. >> everybody's like that when they're young. they don't see the big picture. th...

A common goal, several institutions, okaloosa, walton, century, the ig's canine. what we're doing this morning, mass search. our goal is to identify, locate and remove items of contraband, making santa rosa a safer place for the inmates and the staff. >> today's search will cover two housing units and involve officers from santa rosa, three other state prisons, and the state's inspector general's k-9 unit. the dogs are trained detect the scents of both drugs and cell phones. >> we've got six different search teams. some things i want to caution y'all. i want everybody to remain professional du...

Now it functions as such, thanks to a recent law that diverts thousands of convicts here from overcrowded state prisons. ♪ money make the world go round ♪ ♪ my ego got the girl going down ♪ ♪ because you don't know how low she go ♪ >> all these inmates will someday be released to the streets of sacramento. so the new law brings significant funding for job training and re-entry programs in hopes of providing them the help they need to not return. >> when i was locked up, i had no motivation. i see now inmates that have some motivation that something is out there to help them and to ...