and i ve just been in my cell, my dorm, thinking about my warrant. i don t know if they re going to let me go or not. i m kind of paranoid. i m hoping that i can just kind of like squeeze through here, you know, without the probation officer seeing that. if they re going to see that they re going to keep me here for a long time. next on lockup the l.a. county jail uses star power to reach out to violent inmates. hurry in to the volkswagen best. thing. ever. event. and get 0% apr for 60 months, now until september 3rd. that s the power of german engineering. we re so choosy about the cuts of beef that meet our higher kosher standards that only a slow-motion bite can capture all that kosher delight. and when your hot dog s kosher, that s a hot dog you can trust. hebrew national. see, i knew testosterone could affect sex drive,
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.
call my dad. start over. i ll go back out there, try to go back to work. i was working for l.a.x. shipping and receiving. i got a pretty good job. it was a break for me. the first thing i m going to do is make a phone call and go find my husband. if i get another felony, i ll get life. yeah. three strikes. so, you know. i just don t want to come back, you know. i can t predict my own future, you know. but i don t know, maybe i might stay out for a while. might come back. before this place had a sign saying welcome back. the l.a. county jail releases 800 inmates a day on weekdays and 250 per day on weekends. they re housed at different areas throughout the county. we ll send a pass for them. if they re out of valencia, the buses will bring them in, around the night, around midnight to 3:00. people that get 1201 releases are what we call them, they re scheduled to be released on the
population is being treated. i think it s a great opportunity. next on lockup inmates in the l.a. county jail get back their freedom. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. i knew that i could smoke for the first 7 days. i knew that i wasn t putting nicotine back into my body to try to quit. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix. don t take chantix if you ve had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these, stop chantix and see your doctor right away as some can be life-threatening. tell your doctor if you have a history of heart or blood vessel problems, or if you develo
world. it houses more than 20,000 inmates in eight different facilities, all waiting for trials, transfers, or release. let s go inside l.a. county jail s supermax facility that holds the city s most violent inmates. we ll show you how the jail detectives solve crimes committed behind bars and how violent inmates are learning to rehabilitate themselves. but first we travel 40 miles north of downtown los angeles as we continue our look behind the walls of l.a. county jail. nestled in the high desert mountains and a 40-mile bus ride north of downtown los angeles is the peter j. pitchess detention center. named after a former sheriff, the pitchess detention center is comprised of four jails set on 2,500 acres. south facility is an outdoor dormitory jail for low-to-medium security inmates. north facility is a modern-looking maximum security jail.