the kentucky state penitentiary, also known as the castle on the cumberland. >> i was really intimidated by this place. it's an intimidating place to walk into. >> this could be the worst place you have ever been in your life. >> the eddyville castle will get you. somebody will take your life from you if you come through here with that old chip on your shoulder, there's going to be somebody to take it off you. >> ksp is kentucky's only maximum security facility. a group of stone masons from italy teamed with inmates from various prisons to construct the castle which opened in 1889. >> when they first built it, they had a sign up over the front door that said, "abandon hope all ye that enter here." they wanted this place to look pretty menacing and it still looks menacing even today. >> i think the penitentiary is unique in many respects, just because of the foreboding appearance that it has. it's a serious place where serious things happen. this is a prison. >> the castle sits on 90 acres and has seven cell houses for its 900 inmates. nearly 40 inmates are secluded on death row. fewer th

. >> here, it's colorado state penitentiary. and this time estrada is in for murder, a crime he committed after being released from his first prison term. >> in here, you take things a lot more serious. somebody calls you a punk, somebody calls you a bitch, someone says i'm going to kill you, in here that means, you know, you hold people to that word -- to them words, man. when i got out and guys were saying that about me, i'm going to kill john, i'm going to do this to him. the first thing in my mind is i better go kill him before he gets me even though he was probably talking out of his ass. he didn't understand the type of person i am and where i've been and the thought process i've learned in here. and he's dead now for it. it's kind of like a kill or be killed. >> estrada's prison education started early. >> how old were you when you were first arrested? >> about 13 or 14. >> what did you do? >> stealing a stereo out of a car. that's how it all began. start out stealing bubble gum at the stores all the way to snatching purs

the sex offender we met at iowa's anamosis state penitentiary has a different existence. larry morgan spends nearly every hour of every day inside a small protective custody cell where he never sees the sun. >> well, what happened is they accused me of killing a little girl back in 1994 and next thing i know i'm in prison and then there's people talking about a contract supposed to be out on me. >> morgan was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl. he is serving life without the possibility of parole. >> there's been a lot of threats against me. it was a high profile crime at the time. and everybody in the system knew about it and they're trying to stand up and be some sort of righteous convict. i only rob banks or do drugs. i only sell crack to kids but this guy, he killed one, so now we're going to go and kill him. >> protective custody inmates like morgan are locked in their cells 23 hours a day to keep them from other inmates. >> it's claustrophobic being in a little cell 23 hours a day, but after a while you get used to it. what i miss most a

at the penitentiary of new mexico. you know, about 13 years ago. >> an inmate who was former law enforcement is going to always be perceived as the enemy as far as the other inmates go. so, it's usually a precarious situation. given his circumstances, i thought daniel was pretty secure. going from being a former c.o. to an inmate in the same prison where he once worked, i would have expected him to be a little more nervous, uptight, what have you. but he acclimated quite well. >> the officers, some of them treated me the same. some of them treated me different. for the most part, though, i've always gone along with people. i came into prison. and i ain't here to prove a point. i'm just here to do my time. >> was it weird at first dealing with officers? did you run into people you knew? >> yeah. i mean, i ran into a few people. they said, hey, rapatz. they call me by my last name, what happened, how did you end up here in the joint? what happened? i tell them, i ended up wrong place, wrong time. i was out drinking and u

as a group of inmates at kentucky state penitentiary explain to us. >> i don't fear none of these guys out here. the one i fear the worst is probably -- it's not a clique, my friends that i hang with, these 10, 15 people. i probably fear them most. because i know who they are. the rest of these guys i don't fear none of them. i hope they watch this. they all know the ones that don't. they all know they probably do anyway. >> only thing i fear is the end, i believe that's what's going to get me in life. kicking the bucket. >> just because i don't fear doesn't mean they can take me out. if he fears you that's when you got to worry. in here especially because they'll sneak up on you with a knife, a rock, a choke, whatever they want to do. they will get you because they fear you. >> to me, he's more dangerous than a stone cold killer. you know, he is scared. you know put himself in a situation where he is in the corner. >> that's his only way out. >> and no group of inmates feels more cornered than sex offenders. rapists and child molesters are the pariahs of the prison yard. >> as far as

went to county jail, got out fos that, got another gun charge, got sentenced to the penitentiary. got out now. i have a violation./-j never had no positive influence. my influence was the streets. i thought that was positive. that's all i knew. i'm thinking that is the right way. so i'm going to go that way. that's what i did. >> samuels wants to turn his life around for the sake of his son. he doesn't want his boy to grow up without a father like he did÷ >> that's my life right there. that's what i got to live for. that's what i think about all the time. i want to straighten my life out for him. i didn't even have no dad, even though he would have been good to me because i know how he was. he fell victim to the streets and i'm not trying to be the same. i don't want him growing up like me. i got to be there for him. i'm thinking right now, i'm not doing nothing right for him. i have to do something for #pj. people ain't gonna forget, even if i try to straighten my life up. a lot of people trying to straighten their life up but living in the same environment. people don't forget

. >> this is my fifth stint in the penitentiary. i've been all around. i've been in the system for a while. >> soledad, tracy, jamestown, now here. >> many of these inmates are simply resigned to prison as a way of life. >> i will probably come back once or twice on a violation. ♪ i can't shake these penitentiary state blues ♪ >> but flaco has come to the realization that hanging with a street gang does not mean lifetime loyalty. >> well, basically what it boils down to, an eye opener for me was, when i fell, when i got locked up, where were they? you know, the only people writing me, taking care of me right now is my family. all those guys, home boy this, they ain't nowhere to be found right now. you know, so what it boils down to who is really here for me right now is my family. >> and for chester reed, it's that separation from family and his wife of 32 years that is most painful. >> misery i went through inside these walls and the pain that i caused my family, it will never happen again, not in my lifetime. it hurts me just to think of the hurt t

a patient penitentiary to the hospital. he killed miss roommate on friday. from it was blunt force trauma. >>> today hundreds of hunters will be out in western maryland for the start of the pear hadn'ting season. 343 bags could be bagged by hunt he shalls. >>> it is came gay for the ravens. they will play in prime time against the yags. the the offense of the judgings is the last m the lead. >>> watch the game rite here. . >>> let's look at the forecast dop in jacksonville. here you go. . >>> thousands have made the trip and getting the report about events in jacksonville. unforly we are not going to hear the weather report. the forecast today -- . >>> some showers by the time we play the game -- . >>> we will have more on our show, a woking book and the menu that will be here next week -- ,,,,,, you want to save money on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things? fuggedaboud it. this is new york. hey little guy,

immigration system is a criminal system is no longer just an immigration system but is it's another criminal penitentiary system so he then goes into that system and he's transferred over to private prison corporation like c.c.a. who doesn't have the slight is need to tell people that this person has a mental this capacity an illness and that he should be treated in a different manner. why why should it be because every night that he spends in that cell it's two hundred dollars that they bank and so he ends up spending about two years there after already having served where was one year and in between another two years in total he was five years that he was in prison for dispute over tomatoes and that is what is happening in our system right now that our immigration system is leaving a void there is no real policy in place and because there is no real policy in place corporations are taking advantage of it they see the opportunity to make money as is the case with c.c.a. and guillermo's case is emblematic of many cases that are happening across the country there are cases in georgia where stewart facilit

. >> eastern state penitentiary is considered by many in the paranormal community to be hauned. >> i would definitely classify eastern state within the top ten most active haunted locations in the u.s. >> the atlantic paranormal society or t.a.p.s. for short, have done several investigations here. some captured on sci-fy's ghost hunters. >> there is a lot more than meets the eye. >> those cameras set up stationary, so you don't miss a beat. >> we were invited to tagalong on another ghost hunt. >> i am sure people were treated horribly here. does it mean there are ghosts? not necessarily. >> i think it would be supercool to have an experience. >> kind of a nonbeliever. i'm open to be swayed and changed. >> infrared camera. >> first, we geared up. >> we have thermal imagining camera, temperature fluctuations. >> for axd temp geek like me, ts was my kind of hunt. >> let's put your glasses on, and think we're ready to go. >> tool of the trade, right? >> exactly. >> after a brief lesson, time to head out. >> keep your feet high, keep flashlights on the ground. talk with respect. >> never

rudy guede is in the penitentiary. his term was reduceded and he was convicted on substantial evidence. that's going to be a focus. the other thing that these jurors and judges have to see is the sobriety by which she is presenting herself. she is going to demonstrate, i have always been a good student, a responsible person. these circumstances are being used by the prosecution, who basically called her names, fredricka, instead of dealing with the evidence. bottom line, her natural presence, i think, will sell and it will work. >> you can catch our legal guys every saturday right here on cnn, noontime eastern. we will be taking you to italy momentarily with a preview on what else is to come. >>> back to this country. the u.s. supreme court begins its new term tomorrow. a major case the justices are expected to review, a legal challenge to president barack obama's health care reform law. how did this health care challenge make it to the u.s. supreme court? >> this is a law that has been being challenged ever since the

>> the stigma is there when you brush it off and say that's not penitentiary. if you are open and honest and say this is what i believe and everyone believes things that are strange from the outside. this is part of who i am and let's move forward. that would be a lot better. >> is it possible for mitt romney or even john huntsman to move forward without giving a significant speech or at least try to allow for understanding? for many people, i have to be honest with you. they base the book of mormon on as much as they will know about this religion. that's a comedy and offensive to a lot of people. how do they go about it? >> i think he is not done with this issue as much as the campaign wishes he was. i don't know if it has to be a major speech. he did this in 2007 as we talked about it. voters want to be reassured about the faith and he will have to do it again. >> we spoke with a number of people who are mormon. will members of the religion come out. not only is this an attack on mitt romney. that's an attack on us. if a candidate is attacked, you have people

the syfy ghost hunters took lester and me to a penitentiary in philadelphia many say is haunted. >> were you scared? >> that's my fake scare. remember lester's legendary turn at susan boyle and then last halloween we were snooki with the pickle. at the time that was what they said was her thing. and the situation. wait until you see what the three of us have in store for sunday in our own halloween extravaganza on the plaza. lester will be cold. >> again. >> and amy and i will be big-bottomed. >> okay. i think i know. >> kardashians. >> nope. >> come on. >> what else is big-bottomed? >> and famous. >> what, do they have a patent? >> let's check on the weather, al. >> i had my tush trademarked. >> insured. >> that's right. for the weekend we have wet weather in the pacific northwest. across into the plains. wet and snowy in the northeast. sunny and mild through the gulf into the southwest. sunday, morning snow in new england. we've got more rain in the pacific northwest. showers in the upper mississippi river valley where it will be on the chilly side. looking for mild weather through the

rudy guede in the penitentiary. he was convicted on substantial evidence. that's going to be a focus of the other thing that these jurors and two judges have to see is the sobriety by which she is presenting herself. she's going to demonstrate to them, look, i've done everything. i've always been a good student, a responsible person. these circumstances are being used by the prosecution who basically called her names, fredricka, instead of dealing with the evidence. bottom line, her natural presence i think will sell and it will work. >> all right. let's move onto michael jackson. >> one quick thing, fred. fred, she's going to have to give them a an alibi for that night. she's never provided an alibi. if she wants this conviction thrown out, she's going to have to give a credible alibi. >> let's move to the michael jackson conrad murray case now. avery, in your opinion, what was the one thing the defense or prosecution really nailed this week to set the tone for week two? >> well, clearly mr. alvarez testimony, logistics director, he's a security guard, bas

you know, you don't have freedom when you're in the penitentiary. >> with a family to provide support, frank trustee is one of the lucky ones. frank arrives after a haircut and change of clothes to change his offender status from prisoner to parolee. >> regardless of how well or bad your life is going, you have to report as required. we are going to come to your home. >> okay. >> and if we believe there's a reason to look around, we're going to ask to look around. you can't have weapons. possession of a firearm is a federal offense. because you're a convicted felon. you should always come to the office, ready to give a urine. >> okay. >> frank will face random drug testing as part of his parole. any positive urine test, frank could be sent right back to usp. >> i smoked marijuana. distribution was for mushrooms. every time i get out, i end up getting high again. i hope this is different. i'm scared, though. >> frank's 30 years old. that's where offenders are usually on the cuffs. when they start aging out, they'll slow down and make responsible decisions. you hear a lot, i'm too old f

rudy is in the penitentiary. his term was reduced. i was convicted on substantial evidence. that's a focus. but the other thing these jurors and two judges have to see is the sobriety by which she is presenting herself. she's going to demonstrate to them, look, i've done everything -- i've alwa b

rudy is in the penitentiary. his term was reduced. i was convicted on substantial evidence. that's a focus. but the other thing these jurors and two judges have to see is the sobriety by which she is presenting herself. she's going to demonstrate to them, look, i've done everything -- i've always been a good student, responsible person. she's circumstances are being used by the prosecution who basically called her names, fredricka, instead of dealing with the evidence. her natural presence i think will sell and it will work. >> let's move on to michael jackson. >> one quick thing, fred. she will have to give them an alibi for that night. she never

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the bureau of prisons as the 27% of the people of the federal penitentiary, 27% are for an chameleons. it means they are illegally in the united states would commit a felony. all of those 27%, a fourth of the population of the federal penitentiaries got here some way and they got here illegally to the bureau of the statistics and if the borders so secure with me give you some evidence to the border where i have been numerous times in areas that aren't exactly as safe as you claim. the sheriff's on any given day we will call the sheriff's in the border jail and say how many people are in your jail that our nationals, not criminal aliens that foreign nationals? >> the most recent one is to have the border counties and the average is about 34.5% of the people in the texas border jail or from foreign countries. now these are cross border criminals. these are people who come in the united states. many of them commit their crimes and go back where they came from and to mexico unless they are caught by the local law enforcement. these are people in jail with immigration violations. based on

rudy guede is in the penitentiary. his term was reduced. he actually was convicted on substantial evidence. that's going to be a focus. the other thing that these jurors and two judges have to see is the sobriety by which she is presenting herself. she's going to demonstrate to them that, look, i've done everything. i've always been a good student. i've always been a responsible person. these circumstances are being used by the prosecution who basically called her names, fredricka, instead of dealing with the evidence. bottom line, her natural presence, i think, will sell and it will work. >> and you can catch our legal guys every saturday noon eastern time right here in the kcnn newsroom. >>> the u.s. supreme court reconvenes tomorrow, setting a stage for a constitutional clash over a landmark health care law. a live report from the supreme court right after this. treat you like a policy, not a person. instead of getting to know you they simply assign you a number. aviva is here to change all that. we're bringing humanity back to insurance

to get out, he's going to try to do more than what he was doing with himself before he went to the penitentiary. >> hymes is either going to decide, i'm going to get right, i'm not going to commit more crimes, or he's going to give in to his impulsiveness and he's going to commit another crime and he could very well be doing 25 to life. so i think with hymes, it's either going to be all of one or all of the other this time. >> man, hey, now i'm so glad. is that $200 in that bag, in that gizmo? >> don't worry about it. don't worry about it. >> this is my brother. he loves me. >> all the police -- look it, i do not belong to the california department of corrections no more. i am discharged. i no longer have a prison number. i am discharged. i'm a free black man in america, let me live. that's all i want to do, live, enjoy my family. >> hymes has a new life ahead of him on the outside. >> bye, california correctional center! >> later we'll see where he is two months after release. >> officer brucell, also known as red bull, works in south block. >> my job is third watch. south block rotunda office

perjury because he didn't take an oath it is against the law as judge napolitano already has him in the penitentiary by the way. we are not going to do that here because we are fair. see how that plays out. big mistake for barack obama to come out yesterday and say he told the truth. the president doesn't know whether he told the truth to. say he did puts him in the richard nixon category and he better watch it go into solyndra. >> never the crime it's always the coverup. >> bill: solyndra, right now, the guy who was in charge of the money, he is out. another big, big embarrassment on president obama's doorstep, correct? >> i think solyndra is -- remember when during the climate change summit in denmark, i think it was, there was a scandal of how the climate change scientists had gym mid the result and falsified the results? that was the end of climate change's momentum toward any kind of significant cap and trade legislation, for example. solyndra will do the same thing to green energy. it's the end. >> bill: i hope not. i want green energy but i want it developed privately. >> it can't be develope

pair of cell mates who seemed more like frat house brothers rather than inmates at a maximum security penitentiary. >> look at the nugget, dude. >> no [ bleep ]. >> when we met richard evans and richard boshears, the high-spirited duo had recently reunited as cell mates after boshears had recently been released. >> who are you tattooing on again? >> actually, got caught tattooing on this one right here. this is the one we got caught doing right here. we got ran up on while doing this one. >> really, for real? >> oh, man. >> thank you, gentleman, thank you. >> next thing i know, i do 14 months in the hole. >> he hangs out here. coming to the window. "when are you coming out, bro?" i'll be right out. i'll be right out. lies, man. >> we've developed a really nice relationship. >> i'd do anything for this guy. anything. >> same. >> he's my twin sister. older sister. >> i'm glad you came back. >> but this bond also has a dark side. the cell mates share a strong appetite for methamphetamine. >> what am i in for? cooking meth. back in 2002 i get pulled over. i have a whole lab in the car, microwave, ever

. >> people told me that you eat better in the penitentiary, you eat better than you do in the county jail. >> i remember when i was getting the shot of jason sitting down and finally eating, it was like a kid at a picnic with all the best food, all the best food imaginable, like a kid in the candy store. he was just putting it in his mouth, having a great time. >> what did you have? >> hotdogs and cake. >> okay. you look pretty happy. >> well, i haven't had cake in three years, so you know. >> okay. >> i'm happy about that. and i can have some sense, you know, some sense of joy. >> at the miami-dade county jail, we met a group of friends who couldn't quite agree on the culinary merits of lunch. >> this is the only meal that's not great. it's the only one that's not great. it's bologna every day. a hot meal in the morning and at night. >> this is the best part of the day, lunchtime. and this is how we eat. nice cold cuts. they're great. we enjoy it sometimes. >> this is turkey salami with little pieces of peppercorn in there that kind of like get jammed in your teeth and they're terri

childhoods, multiple incarcerations and violent crime convictions are common to many of the inmates at the penitentiary of new mexico, but none of them told us their personal stories of self-destruction quite the way inmate frederico munoz did while we were shooting "lockup: extended stay." >> at the hour of my birth there were no celebrations. allow me to present my many tribulations. i come from a broken home. i am a bastard child. no wonder my life was violent, fast, and wild. >> we met frederico when we were filming what we call "b" roll in the outside exercise cages at the prison. he made a striking impression on me, because when we started talking, he was extremely articulate. and when he talked about his crimes, he was very self-aware and very honest about the consequences of his actions. >> i was brought up into a culture where they teach you to be violent. they teach you to outsmart the enemy. they teach you to regard later and your society and your government with contempt. once you have that lifestyle, that philosophy, it's not a matter of right and wrong anymore. it becomes a matter of this

in my practice, county jails were much more dangerous than penitentiary's because you do not know who these people are. you arrest them for traffic and the could be a serial killer. you do not know. the jail did look him up in the new jersey criminal justice information system. they are required to do that. every one of these jails has a computer access to that and they tiepin his identifying information. they were able to pull up without any difficulty. they filled out a form saying there is no reasonable suspicion here. our rule operates in a system in which the jailed does have enough information. if the jail has the facts, as it did here, to determine there is no reasonable suspicion, then it is an extraordinary intrusion on dignity to strip him naked women have no reason to do so. >> -- to strip naked when they have no reason to do so. >> they get about 70 people going through this process a day. mr. anything in the record about how much additional time it would require to look at their records and determine which category they should fall into, to strip search or not? >> there i

the bureau of prisons as the 27% of the people of the federal penitentiary, 27% are for an chameleons. it means they are illegally in the united states would commit a felony. all of those 27%, a fourth of the population of the federal penitentiaries got here some way and they got here illegally to the bureau of the statistics and if the borders so secure with me give you some evidence to the border where i have been numerous times in areas that aren't exactly as safe as you claim. the sheriff's on any given day we will call the sheriff's in the border jail and say how many people are in your jail that our nationals, not criminal aliens that foreign nationals? >> the most recent one is to have the border counties and the average is about 34.5% of the people in the texas border jail or from foreign countries. now these are cross border criminals. these are people who come in the united states. many of them commit their crimes and go back where they came from and to mexico unless they are caught by the local law enforcement. these are people in jail with immigration violations. based on

obviously, family values, very penitentiary to ron paul, winning the voters values presidential straw poll in washington. >> 21 deaths linked in the nationwide outbreak of listeria in cantaloupes. the centers for disease control saying that number may grow. 109 people have been sickened so far. >> and there is joy in springfield. the hit show, the simpsons, reaching a new two-year deal with 20th century fox, settling a salary dispute for next year. >> lthe feds are vowing to weed out scores of california pot operations -- get it -- weed out? the government cracking down on mary jane, targeting those they call the worst offenders, those using the cover of medical marijuana to act as storefront drug dealers. we go to the ganja beat. >> reporter: gregg, how many more puns can you fit into the intro? you are having too much fun with this story. you know, california became the first state in the nation, gregg, to legalize marijuana for medical use. that was back in 1996. and since that tite time, 15 other states have passed similar laws that allow patients to buy the drug so long as they h

minded, that we go to the convention in tampa, it will be like conjugal visitation day at the state penitentiary. everybody is going to have one thing on their mind, and that is getting rid of obama. you should expect harsh,-, hopefully not personal, -- president obama's policies are unpopular but he is not personally unpopular. the best ways to make it about the jobs and the economy. do you think what he has done has helped or hurt? that's the best policy for us. many will say he has done as best as he could with what he inherited, problems caused by bush's policies. seriously, that will be their defense. a lot of people make the mistake of assuming that even if obama wins, there will be a republican house. 61 house members represent districts obama carried. many buy it more than 10 points. very hard for a freshman to survive that kind of wave in their district. is it likely the republicans will keep the house? it is. it's not huge, but it is solid. it is not for certain. that will be more race than people think. as far as the senate is concerned, many are sure -- republicans in have to pick up

a different election was 1920 where he was imprisoned in the atlanta penitentiary and got 1 million votes while running from prison. >> in our 90 minute program, "the contenders," we look at people who made an attempt at the white house and failed. but they had an effect on political and american history. we are live tonight from the eugene debs home in terre haute. it is on the campus of indiana state university. he lived here in this house. he and his wife kate, who lived here for years after he died. we will show you more of the house as we continue here. the top floor of the house has an interesting mural. the mural depicts the years of his public life. throughout our program we will be showing you aspects of the artwork to help illustrate eugene debs' story. let me introduce you to our second guest. she is joining us from what was his bedroom, now is a museum room with a lot of artifacts. lisa phillips -- she is a specialist in labor history. lisa phillips, thank you for being with us. your thoughts on his significance to the american story. >> i think the significance has to do with

all of those 27%, when fourth of the population in the federal penitentiaries got here some way, and a legally according to the statistics of the bureau of prisons. if the border is still secure -- let me give you some insight as to the texas border, where i have been numerous times in areas that are not exactly as safe as you claim. the share of common on any given day, we will call them in the border jail, and s, people are in your gel that our foreign nationals -- jails that are as foreign nationals? the most recent one had the average at 34.5% from foreign countries. these are cross border criminals, people that come to the united states, many of them commit their crimes, and go back where they are from, and must their cause by local law enforcement could these are people in jail with immigration violations. based on your experience, do you think 34% is a high number of foreign nationals in anyone's gel? >> listen. >> i am listening you listen. you are a lawyer. the natchez rebels of the time expires. do you think 34.5% of the people in jail from a foreign country is a high numbe

i think in my practice at least county jail were much more dangerous than penitentiaries because you don't know who these people are. you arrest them for traffic, and they may be some serial killer, you don't know. >> sure. first, that is not the view of the jails in this case. they did not find any concern this their own policies, near does the marshal service, i.c.e. with this prospect of some prior offense. as to what the rule is and how common it is and whether this works in progress, the jail here did look him up this new jersey criminal justice system. that's in the record. they're required by new jersey law to do that. every single one of these jails has computer access to the nj, cjis and also the ncic. they just type in his identifying information. they were able to pull him up without any difficulty, and they've not complained they department have enough information about him. they filled out a form saying there is no reasonable suspicion here. and, remember, our rule only operateses in a system, justice kennedy, in which the jail buzz have enough -- does have enough inform

the house, i rise today with concern, concern about an incident that occurred at the united states penitentiary in lee county, virginia, ninth district. this incident occurred friday night and the only good news is, no one was killed. an officer there was assaulted by an inmate who was carrying a sh inch ve and he was able to kick off a phone that sent off a silent alarm. and it was responded to by sean jones who was injured in the assault. both of these men acted properly and bravely. what did they have to defend themselves with? nothing, absolutely nothing. our regulations and rules do not allow them to have pepper spray or a baton to defend themselves. h.r. 1175 introduced by congressman cardoza, would get us a pilot project to fix this problem. i urge that we pass this. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does gentlelady from texas seek recognition? without objection. ms. jackson lee: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i rise today to talk about something happy, and that is the happy-sad pillow that is made by the parents of avonce. they can teach numb

in my practice at least county jails were much more dangerous than penitentiaries because you don't know who these people are paid to arrest them for traffic and they may be a serial killer. you don't know. >> that is not the view of the jail in this case. they have a reasonable suspicion standard. they didn't find any concern in their own policy neither does the marshals service, i.c.e.. we have a prospect of a prior offense. as to what the rule is and how common it is and whether this works in practice, the jail did look him up in the new jersey criminal-justice a version system that's in the record. they are required by the new jersey law to do that. every single one of these jails has computer access to the new jersey and the nci. they just type in his identified information. they were able to pull him up without any difficulty and they've not complained that they didn't have enough information about him. they filled a form saying there is no reasonable suspicion here. and remember, our rules we operate in a system, justice kennedy, in which the jeal does have enough information. whe

very serious crime in some other state of in my practice, county jails were much more dangerous than penitentiary's because he did not know who they are. he did not know. >> that is not the view of the jails. they apply a reasonable suspicion standard. they did not find any concern in their own policies, neither does the marshal service, ice. as to what the rule is and how common it is and whether this works in practice, the jail here it did look him up in the new jersey criminal justice information system. they are required by law to do that. every single one of these jails has computer access. just type in his identifying information. they were able to pull him up without a vocal the and they have not complained that they did not have enough information about him. they fill out a form saying there's no reasonable suspicion here. remember, our rule only operates in a system in which the jail does have enough information. when our point is this -- if the jail has the facts as it did here, to affirmatively determined there is no reasonable suspicion, which is what they decided about mr. florence, th

single-minded i think we go to convention in tampa, it's going to be like logical visitation just a penitentiary. [laughter] everyone will have one thing on their mind. and that's getting rid of obama and that's, and that's, that's what i think, that's right think we are. in the fall race i think you should expect harsh, negative hopefully not personal. if the republicans are best served, if the campaign is about policy. not about personalities. president obama's policies are unpopular. is not personally unpopular. the best way to win is to make the election about jobs and the economy, and then what obama has done and let people decide. do you think what he has done has helped or hurt? and so that's the best policy for us. democrats will say that obama has done as well as possible with the situation he inherited. problems caused by bush's policy, and then was a which are of course the policies of whoever the republicans -- the republicans own it, that unqualified, unacceptable lousy, crummy, phony liar. board words to that effect. seriously, that would be their defense, but their offense as i sa