drafted resolution. senate hearings are going to be held. and four young people were killed when their car drifted off a new york state road. it jumped a guardrail and slammed into the base of an overpass bridge and caught fire. that is the news. now back to lock-up. over the last decade many states around the country have spent more money building jails and prisons than colleges. in the l.a. county jail system the average stay for an inmate is 45 days. but some inmates can be locked up for more than two years. finding room for those prisoners is a constant challenge. it requires not only the building of new jails but also keeping the old ones running.