the attorney says things have changed since the early '90s. >> its name is synonymous in popular culture with brutality, with corruption, with jailbreaks, with people banging cups on bars. none of which is true anymore. but it still exercises a very powerful hold on the imagination. >> reporter: most of the inmates there are waiting to go on trail and can range from drug dealers to murderers. mark david chapman, who killed john lennon, was once held there. so was david burkewitz. dominic strauss-kahn is able to leave his jail cell and can go outside for an hour a day. but will be escorted by a corrections officer. inside, he's allowed to periodically walk around his housing area corridor where he can watch tv. >> everything is difficult. and the most difficult thing i think for any particular person