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
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 is to deal with the dehumanization, because you re just one of 13,000 people, and to deal with being cut off from
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 low level drug dealers to murderers. mark david chapman, who killed john lennon, was once held there. so was david burkowitz. aka the son of sam serial killer. in recent years, rapper lil wayne spent time there on a weapons charge. 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 is to deal with the dehumanization, because you re just one of 13,000 people, and to deal with being cut off from the outside world. floip his first day at rikers, he had one visitor but declined to say who it was.
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 is to deal with the dehumanization, because you re just one of 13,000 people, and to deal with being cut off from the outside world. floip his first day at rikers, he had one visitor but declined to say who it was. inmates can have up to three people per visit, not including attorneys who are given access to their clients any given day. mary snow, cnn, this morning. still ahead, bernie madoff is serving more than 100 years, but his assets are up on the auction block. we ll shoel you some of them ahead. and don t you hate it when people talk loudly on their cell phones in a restaurant or on a plane? tonight, this story winds up one woman on the ridicu-list.
He won t have contact with other prisoners who on 13,000 or 14,000 on any given day. ron kuby who is visiting clients for decades says things changed since violence dominated the jail in the early 90s. it s name is synonymous in popular culture with brutality, with corruption, with jail breaks, with people banging cups on bars none chf is true anymore. it still exercises a powerful hold on the imagination. reporter: mostst inmates there are waiting to go on trial and can range from low-level drug dealers to murderers. mark david chapman who killed john lennon was once held there, so was david berkowitz, the son of sam serial killer. in recent years, little wayne spent time there on a weapons possession charge. strauss-khan is able to leave his jail cell says a prison spokesman and can go outside for an hour a day. it will be escorted by a correction s officer. inside, he s allowed to periodically walk around his housing area corridor where he