. >> for a look at what's coming up at the top of the hour, john seigenthaler. >> legionnaires disease in new york, ten dead. and the scientific cause of this outbreak. >> . >> and the criminal justice system in detroit. and an 11-year-old charged with manslaughter in the death of a three-year-old boy. >>> three years after the voting rights act, why some say that the vote is still at risk. >> in alabama, we had absolutely no early voting. all of the studies show that particularly poor people and people of color vote early, because they can take time off work, they can vote when it's convenient for them. >> but the conversation with reverend frederick weiss, who helped to make the act a reality a century ago. >>> and we go to the east sports, video game players battling out on the big screens for prizes while families cheer them on. >> for everybody who loves comedy or politics or both, it may be hard to imagine the 2016 presidential campaign without jon stewart. but tonight is his last night of comedy central's show, the daily show, and he leaves behind a legacy. >> i'm a new member o

i'm john seigenthaler >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> there are 2 million people behind bars in america. we open the gates. "lockup." >> i'm not disappointed in anything i've done. i've made the decisions that i've made. you have to be a strong-minded individual. >> i have seen staff assaulted. i have seen staff die. >> i have lost over a pint and a half of blood. and the doctor says i don't know how much more you could have taken. >> i wish i could touch and hug them but i guess this is better than nothing. >> i shot a man and i burned him

i'm john seigenthaler. msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons, into a world of chaos and danger. now the scenes you've never seen. "lockup: raw." >> built in 1852 and home to california's death row, san quentin state prison is bursting at the seams due to overcrowding. when we shot our extended stay series there. but san quentin had one program design t

i'm john seigenthaler. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. there are 2 million people behind bars in america. we open the gates. "lockup." >>> this is a new institution. inmates are trying to establish their own territory. a lot of inmate-on-inmate assaults. >> you're surrounded by 1,000 killers. every one of them is a stranger. >> watch out for this guy on the yard. something's going to happen, it's going to happen soon. >> obviously this has been tampered with. the inmates have restitched it back up.

i'm john seigenthaler. >>> there are 2 million people behind bars in america. we open the gates. "lockup." >> the whole setting is like out of a movie, something i've never seen before, something i never thought i would be a part of. >> it's kind of depressing. this is prison. this is the first time i've ever seen it, so i'm kind of nervous about it. >> if somebody who commits premeditated first-degree murder tells you they have remorse, they are a liar.

i'm john seigenthaler. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> america's prisons, dangerous, often deadly. there are 2 million people doing time. every day is a battle to survive and to maintain order. >> down on your feet, down! >> among the nation's most notorious institutions, san quentin state prison. our cameras spent months documenting life on the inside where gangs, drugs, and sheer boredom make up a violent mix. this is "lockup: san quentin -- extended stay." as the oldest prison in california, san quentin is steeped in a violent history. >> get out in the yard. take a hole. >> taking in and distributing inmates from 17 counties, its criminal population changes almost every day. >> just keeping this place functional is an enormous effort. >> the prison uses a set of regulations and procedures to maintain order. but inmates often operate under a different code of conduct. >> the inmates have what they call prison politics here, and the gangs control all of that. they have literally written rules and regulations, and the repercussions for not followi

i'm john seigenthaler. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >> one of the most intense things our "lockup" field groups encounter when they go inside a maximum security prison is conducting interviews with murderers, sitting five, six feet away from a very violent offender. but mo o

i'm john seigenthaler. >>> now they're giving her the green light to go on in. >> an assault leaves an inmate injured. >> i never expected her to attack me from behind. >> part of life. you live and you learn. >> everybody watching you like crazy. >> they

then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective. weeknights, on al jazeera america. ♪ ♪ >>> held going, reminder of the top stories here on al jazerra. at least 110 people have been killed in government air strikes on the outskirts of the syrian capital damascus. hundreds more were wounded in the attack on a crowded market in douma. >>> parliamentary investigation has blamed some of iraq's highest officials including former prime minister nouri al-maliki for the fall of isil in june of 2014. and the home minister of punjab province in pakistan has been killed along with 16 others in a suicide a to be on his office. he was a key figure leading the campaign against the taliban in the region. >>> let's return now to our top story the conflict in syria. and with me now in studio is the director for the council of arab-british understanding. thank fox with us in the studio. earlier we had a report from zeina khord talking about the collapse of the ceasefire and the idea that there would be some

i'm john seigenthaler. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> america's prisons, dangerous, often deadly. there are 2 million people doing time. every day is a battle to survive and to maintain order. >> down on your feet, down! >> among the nation's most notorious institutions, san quentin state prison. our cameras spent months documenting life on the inside where gangs, drugs, and sheer boredom make up a violent mix. this is "lockup: san quentin -- extended stay."

then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective. weeknights, on al jazeera america. >> a federal judge temporarily blocked the state of mississippi from carrying executions. three inmates are suing the state saying the drugs amount to cruel and unusual punishment. in june, the supreme court upheld the use of one of the drugs in executions, but mississippi department of corrections say it will appeal the decision. >> former major league pitcher curt schilling is apologizing for sending out a tweet that many found offensive. it contained this meme, comparing muslims to in hisi era germans tweeting the math is staggering when you get to true numbers. espn has suspended him from little league world series broadcasts, the network saying it may take further action. he says he accepts his suspension, saying bad choices have bad consequences. >> on the tech beat, uber helping to develop new technology that could be used in driverless cars. the company is partnering with the university of arizona to dev

then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective. weeknights, on al jazeera america. >> he cigarettes, their growing popularity, now a new study out of england said they may be the key to helping smokers quit, but here some researchers say the use of cigarettes especially among teens could be the gateway to using the real thing. we have more. >> what we're encouraging cigarette smokers to do is if they've tried other things and haven't succeeded, try e-cigarettes. >> a british government agency recommends e cigarettes, as an aid to help people quit smoking for the short and medium term. the study found all of the duties in the u.k. thought to be current users were i believe to stick to e-cigarettes or quit smoking completely. >> the estimates done by a variety of experts suggest that e-cigarettes are about 95% less harmful than smoking. >> they convert nicotine into an inhalable vapor, a healthier option to smoking tobacco. >> there doesn't seem to be appetite for using them regularly among non-

then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective. weeknights, on al jazeera america. >> satirist and actor harry shearer is famous for being the voice on the simpsons. today he has an ad running, challenging president obama to take responsibility for what he calls the failure of the army corps of engineers, which he claims led to the katrina disaster. shearer spoke about it with john siegenthaler. >> the first time he was here at president was october of 2009 and he referred to this as a natural disaster, which is to elude any sense of the culpability of an agency of the federal government in the near destruction of this city. lawsuits have failed against the corps of engineers, because congress provided it with blanket immunity. the only thing we can have now is an acknowledgment by the head of that agency, the commander of that agency that they. >>ed up badly. >> he wasn't the president then. >> i'm not saying he was president then, but he was head of the agency and they've never taken full re