days. i got shot tuesday night at 10:30. they didn t wake me up until thursday around like 2:00, and then i just was in so much pain, an my neck was sticking out. and i had tubes in my lungs. it was really an experience i never want to go through again. even though the gunman is dressed head to toe in black and wears a face mask, in the videotape released by police to the media, generates a tip that leads to the arrest of 19-year-old john jacobs. he s charged with attempted second-degree murder and aggravated batterer and is sentenced to several years in prison. in what s believed to be the most expensive attempted robbery in modern history, a gang of hardened criminals uses a specially designed bulldozer to crash first through a gate, then
to. that s why i was kind of playing around with him. jacob, come on, put it down. i went and reached for them because i knew he was not going to do anything whatsoever. now, if it was another kid that is a batterer, i wouldn t have been nearly as familiar with him. he signed a contract with me that he would behave and he would stay out of trouble and not self-mutilate if you would let him sit in the chairs. jacob tells us that episode started when his entire unit was locked down because one offender acted out. i don t like being punished. i don t like being in my room. how did you find something to wrap around your finger? that s not hard. they sew the pillows with different strings. i put the pencil in, cut the string off. does it feel good to you at the time when you re doing that? do you like pain? no, i can t feel it in my left hand. you know the drill with this, right?
journal did? i think that what the journal news did is because of their leftist antigun agenda, they have literally put people in danger in jeopardy, identifying not just your name and address, but an interactive map of the cross streets, of the major arteries, how you would get to your house, of people like myself. i ran for office five times. i was public official, i get it. but, in the years, 30 years that s a prosecutor, a judge and a d.a., there were many threats against me, but it s part of what i do. you have to worry about the battered women who have orders of protection, whose addresses a hidden by the court, who get a gun to defend themselves and the journal news is giving a road map to the batterer to find her. the witness who testified against a career criminal. but we had a hard time getting to him cooperate with us, is now sitting in fear that that criminal will get his associates who are on the outside.
75% of the inmates enrolled at the recovery center are not re-arrested for the same crime, according to a recent survey conducted by county officials. going after these guys, right? upon an inmate s completion of either a substance abuse or batterer s program they re given a graduation ceremony and a certificate. in order to break the cycle of violence is extremely difficult because you have to get honest with yourself. and that process will take you through a lot of valleys, places within you that you ve never seen before. and i want to congratulate you gentlemen again on taking that journey. former drug addict and wife batterer james beard is the head counselor for the program. what we do is basically say you put yourself in that chair, you can t blame anybody.
the l.a. county jail s answer to this growing trend in reducing recidivism is the biscailuz recovery center. here they get a very intense, very emotional, very personal contact. and we stress accountability in everything they do here. often referred to as camp hug-a-thug, the recovery center encompasses a drug abuse program and a batterer program for men convicted of a domestic violent crime. it s generally set up for someone to a low to a medium security inmate. we look for someone who s feeling that they want to show a commitment to a program, they want to see it through. upon entry to the recovery center, inmates are greeted by an elaborate koi fish pond and waterfall, with housing units equipped with clean carpets, air-conditioning, and lots of windows for sunshine. the only physical remnants of jail is the perimeter fence and razor wire. to just be a happier person. i have a lot of hope today. i never had hope before.