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Appreciate you guys coming. i want to recognize that we have over 50 people dedicated for this mission today. it's good to see everybody coming together, working toward 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 canine unit. the dogs are train...

And three other state prisons come together for training. >> one, two, three, four! one, two, three, four! >> your left! >> it's a team comprised of officers to respond to any event that may happen at our correctional facilities for riot control, disturbances or incidents of that nature. >> forward, halt! >> if we had a large-scale incident, we would want to make sure that we had a complement of officers that could address that and we adopted some military mobile field force-type training and we feel that a platoon with munitions and batons and less lethal capabilities would be sufficient enou...

Federal prison that they're being released from, not the state prisons. >> yes. it's an interesting move. you know, i think california has the most people incarcerated in one single space than anywhere in the entire world. and all of that takes place in our prisons. not in our federal prisons but in our state prisons. i've had a firsthand encounter of being there myself as a wrongfully convicted man. being in prison, being in dorms, being in jim naz y comes where thereby three-tiered bunk beds inside of a gym. you ask yourself, are all these people committing these crimes? and if so, what kind...

Worked out. that's going to take some time. it's not exactly working beautifully in the congress right now. so is the real question about whether it will get through this session, but it does seem like there's enough momentum that maybe this one or the next one. >> and in terms of what this would actually mean, you have dick durban describing this as a major sea change. practically speaking, what would the impact be? >> it would reduce overpopulation in the federal prison. most of the prisoners in america are in state prisons. >> i want to ask you too about this hacking story, involving john b...

>> 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? >> duker 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. they can...