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Up in lake county juvenile, the pressures are more than most teens can imagine. never has this been so painfully clear than what 16-year-old arianna gets a visit from her mother. >> you can't go to girls school. because it's like you're the center of the household. you can't go to girls school. what is everybody going to do? >> going to girls school means going to juvenile prison. a frightening prospect of its own. but arianna also has to face what her absence could mean to the welfare of her entire family. >> on top of that, i have to pay your fees while i'm here tomorrow. that is $110 plus t...

Classes and one of her students. good morning, guys. >> you did not just get out of class, did you? >>guest: no, but it was hard waking up. >>alisyn: so, joy, you teach a psychology chase each week from midnight to 3:00 a.m. how did that start? >>guest: well, the psychology program coordinator, back not early 2000, they tried to implement this program where they wanted to, really, capture an underserved population of students, the college enrollment has increased over 40 percent in the past four years and we found that there was a group of students, those people who do the swing shift, firemen...

Fall asleep have fallen asleep before. i think you will find that the people who are fired are repeat offe offenders. and if you clear out the problems, it's much easier to manage the organization. yes, cleaning out the problems with exactly what they have to do. >> i just want to talk quickly about this issue of scheduling. if the controllers are allowed to work a couple of day shifts followed by a swing shift and then an overnight shift, doesn't that contribute to the fatigue, the sleep deprivation that they're experiencing? >> yes. and studies have shown that almost all these instances of f...

But you get used to it after a while. the problem is the controllers say their shifts can vary so much, one week they're on the overnight shift, the next week, on the daytime shift, the next week, they're on the everything, kind of swing shift. is that a possibility, you know, just give everybody an assigned shift and let mem get used to the cycle? >> well, the faa management and the union is working hard to address the -- they've done a study, i think, on fatigue management and certainly scheduleing is one of the issues and perhaps as was mentioned earlier, allowing napping under controlled c...

Bill: it's a $161,000 salary on average. there are other proposals out there. change the scheduling. revise the controller work schedule scheduling policies. provide rest periods. modify the shift rotations. that way you minimize disruptive sleep patterns. sounds logical. >> absolutely. i think for folks who are used to working in towns that have a swing shift or night shift. they understand you have to continue to work that shift before you can ado it. a lot of controllers are forced to work two days, then maybe a swing shift from 3:00 to 11:00, and then a midnight shift. bill: ray lahood, th...