Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100421:22:57:00
$39,000, $40,000 a year taxpayers pay to house one prisoner. lots of states across the country are looking at ways to reduce the number. >> now, your organization has been studying this for a few years. i mean, this is the consensus of police chiefs around the country, correct? >> absolutely. we met with law enforcement officials, elected public officials. we met with people in immigrant community. one woman told me -- told us that she wouldn't even go out of her house to buy milk for her baby when the immigration enforcement people are in town. >> yeah. >> is that the role for local police? w...