tom was a good man. trying to change a broken system. it sort of energized us at frontline to on look deeply into the scenario and try to contribute to the debate. dan, i mean, your documentary has been called a must see for all its sort of horror, but i want to read you one criticism of it in the atlantic, and it is this. it says almost every single one of the faces that appear on film is white. perhaps that means that white viewers will more fully empathize with what they are seeing. i would love for the journalists who create solitary nation to undertake that same sort of project in a southern prison. what s your response to that? so would i. the reason there were so many white faces in this film is because it was shot in maine, and the great majority of inmates in the maine state prison are white. i would love to go back and make a similar film in a prison in a different state, and i have no doubt the racial makeup would be very different if we did. it was very difficult to g
provide information for the nation to have a grown-up conversation about this. tell me about tom clement. this is somebody who you met that inspired you to do the film. tell me about him. he was the director of corrects down in colorado, and when he started in his job there, he was confronted with a statistic that 47% of inmates in solitary confinement were going straight out on to the street from solitary from a little box on to the street with no kind of sort of stepdown program, no way of smoothing that bump bahhing into society. that horrified him, and he wanted to reform the use of solitary confinement in colorado. he was just starting out on that program when he was very tragically murdered by a recently released inmate, an inmate who had spent time in solitary, who quite clearly deteriorated during his time in solitary, become more dangerous when he was in solitary and when he got out, he murdered the very man who was attempting to reform that system. it struck me.
williams is live at the supreme court. so, pete, first of all, we know the split here was -2 with justice kate in recusing herself because of her work in the justice department, but talk a little bit about this ruling and what it actually means beyond the specifics of michigan. sorry for the umbrella. sudden rainstorm here at the supreme court today. what the decision itself means the supreme court seems to go out of its way to say that this has nothing to do with it is merits of whether states can have affirmative action, but what civil rights groups are worried about is that this will be a green light to other states, seven states have done what michigan has done here banning affirmative action, that this could be a green light to other states now to say, well, the supreme court says if we ban it by constitutional amendment, that s okay. so that s what the concern is, and opponents of affirmative action say that they hope that s what the effect of it is. politically whe
excited as we come back out here live. at at&t park and they could not be more happy. justin waldman has also been out here all and day. they cannot get an of orange and black. with no pressure! [laughter] but after speaking with fans. just how much excitement there is something different. there is optimism. terrace freshness. there is freshness. all day, we are going to go for no. 3. san francisco giants no. 1! 2013. i agree. everything about these guys is so san francisco i loved it, i love it! i love it! giants! are you teaching anything to me we are blowoff work. all my stuff. the giants! we are going to go back to the series and a great roster. the chemistry is the same we are going to do with it. the other thing that we got today was not just how they are excited but it is important to notice that they started the season how they ended this season. this giants team knows how to win if it is confident. the fan base is also just as confident comin
0 alone, i think, you know, there s a special quality to him as a hero. i don t even know how don draper dies but if the show is about this existential question am i alone, can i ever be happy, those questions, there needs to be a hint at the end. i am going to try to use the machinery of my show to give a satisfying ending. ac 360 starts right now. good evening, everyone. tonight, north korea ups the ante yet again in its nuclear showdown with america but how real are these threats? there s been a lot of breathless reporting about this. tonight, some badly needed perspective. we ll look at the reality behind north korea s missile scare tactics. christiane amanpour and fran foundsend join me. also, late developments in the murder of tom clements, the chief of colorado prisons. two persons of interest with white power connections armed, dangerous, are on the loose right now and place want your help in finding them. also tonight, my exclusive interview only on 360 with to