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Disco! [singing] say it and see it. the x1 voice remote, only from xfinity. after 15 hours in l.a. county's inmate reception center, these prisoners are sent to men's central jail. built in 1963, this maximum security facility can house up to 7,500 inmates. larger than most state prisons, the 900,000-square-foot facility is the first stop for 90% of the inmates. >> what you've got here is an entire population of the downtrodden. you've got the losers in

>> the committee is baffled. not only by hamilton's stubbornness but by its sudden appearance after nine years behind bars at other state prisons. >> he has taken a cellie up until he got here. >> that's not a luxury of being in prison. he should have thought about that before went to prison. he has to have a cellie. >> escorted back to his cell, hamilton is optimistic he'll win his battle and return to general population without a cellmate. >> i'm happy. i don't have to -- i get my tv, radio and my property back. >> later, we were with hamilton as officers escorted him to his new general popu...

Solved -- by security being less in touch with the prisoners. it's a problem of people and not measures taken. because nothing that they did could have happened without joyce and without gene. nothing. they could have been nothing without the friendship and relationships that were involved. >> so to create a level of separation there. >> it's a very hard thing to do. >> obviously running a prison like this is an incredibly hard thing to do. keisha the question a lot of people are asking this morning is would this escape could this brazen breakout and could the somewhat twisted relationships th...

Likely to go to prison at some point in their lives despite black and white people using and selling drugs at similar rates. black and brown people kproiz 60% of those in state prisons for drug offenses during traffic stops. people of color, three times more likely to be searched. this all contribute to the 1.5 million black men missing from society. either dead or in prison. many of those folks are in connecticut. how much do you think your state has lost because of the disparate treatment of the black and brown people who live in connecticut? >> i think it has -- the impact per year in lost ...

That the commissioner dropped about 90 minutes ago. one, that there was this undisclosed stop of this van that was carrying freddie gray. why did the public not know about it? so he wouldn't comment on that. he also wouldn't comment on "the washington post" report that a source told "the post" that the other prisoner inside the van believes freddie gray was intentionally trying to injure himself. no comment there. the investigation now sitting today, one day ahead of schedule with the state's attorney's office. let's talk about the people of the city. for the people in freddie gray's neighborh...