put your left shoulder on the wall. safety is a top priority. it makes sense. but how do you achieve it inside a jail? just a few years ago, this system went off the rails and it ignited a media fire storm. several former and current deputies with the los angeles sheriff s department were just arrested. it s alleged they took part in unjustified beatings, unjustified detentions, and a plan to cover it all up. a 2011 report revealed shocking stories of brutality. officers had formed their own ganged and assaulted inmates with impunity. 3,000 boys are just one of several clique-ish tattooed deputy gangs. he was pepper sprayed while in handcuffs then framed by the deputies who claimed they had beaten them. the fbi got involved, and since 2013, 21 members of the sheriffs department have been convicted of inmate abuse or for
people, one of the most famous in american history, mark felt better known as deep throat. the fbi informant helped take down the nixon administration divulging crucial information about watergate. in 1971, military analyst daniel elseburg leaked top-secret department of defense information about why the u.s. entered the vietnam war. william vinny and thomas drake were nsa officials who informed the inspector general about government surveillance programs they perceived as invading citizens privacy by monitoring their internet activity. fbi agent colleen rawley flagged then fbi director robert mueller about intelligence failures before the 9/11 attacks. or sergeant joseph darby who told military investigators in 2004 about inmate abuse at the abu ghraib prison in iraq. not everyone who blew the whistle on the government has been rewarded. for some it meant the end of their careers. or even worse. willful, purposeful
better known as deepthroat. the fbi informant helped take down the nixon administration, divulging crucial information about watergate. and in 1971, military analyst daniel ellsberg leaked top-secret department of defense information about why the u.s. entered the vietnam war. william benny and thomas drake were nsa officials who informed the inspector general about government surveillance programs they perceived as invading citizens privacy by monitoring their internet activity. fbi agent coleen rowley flagged then fbi director robert mueller about intelligence failures before the 9/11 attacks. or sergeant joseph darby who told military investigators in 2004 about inmate abuse at the abu ghraib prison in iraq. not everyone who blew the whistle on the government has been rewarded. for some, it meant the end of their careers or even worse. willful, purposeful disclosure caused exceptionally
and reports confirm the corruption ran all the way to the top. former l.a. county undersheriff convicted of corruption in the same case that ended the career of former sheriff. in the wake of the scandal, it was clear the system needed a major overhaul. assistant sheriff terry mcdonald was the one appointed to the job. at the height of the controversy, what would you say went wrong? it s a high-stress environment. sometimes it s who you hired, but oftentimes it s really a lack of that front line supervision where you see an employee starting to lose their patience, you re not disrupting that. i don t think we trained people as well as we could have or should have. so what changes have been implemented in response to the allegations of inmate abuse? we ve increased supervisors. we have more sergeants helping the staff with these complicated issues. fundamentally, we made it crystal clear that we re not going to tolerate prisoner abuse. violence in the jails is unacceptable o
which is beautiful, by the way. it is beautiful. right. and that s not our that s not the image that many of us have of people who are incarcerated. right? that these are seen as the worst of the worst, that they re labeled as unproductive. and yet here they produced this wonderful thing. that doesn t mean that s not to excuse the terrible things that some of them have done, in some cases, to put them there, but it does show i think that their worth as human beings is more complicated than the pigeon holes that we put these people in sometimes. and i think pope francis coming there is the same thing. i mean what strikes me as a philadelphiaen, we ve had problems in philadelphia s prisons for several decades, overcrowding, inmate abuse, people there for too long. it is just hard for activists to get people to pay any attention to these issues. now here s pope francis, one of the most powerful and maybe most