Germano and I decided to spend time in the prison, talking to inmates and looking for a willing collaborator.
But other systems typically use alternative methods to break them up, like Tasers, chemical spray or talking the inmates down.
De Blasio also created two programs, a Transitional Repair Unit and Second Chance Housing, both of which focus on positive rehabilitation and talking to inmates rather than just throwing them in the slammer.
The new Progressive Conservative government also just privatized phones in provincial jails, meaning it now costs $12/hour for families and friends to talk to prisoners; the system, authorized by the NDP, has also resulted in problems with lawyers talking to inmates.
The authorities said they planned to talk with inmates to try to impose order.
He relapsed, after three years off drugs, while in Coldingley Prison and was making a slow recovery when, in 2007, a charismatic volunteer, herself a former alcoholic, came to talk to inmates who were trying to kick drugs and alcohol.
I tried to get into the camp to see the conditions and talk to inmates - but was refused access.
McDonald encouraged deputies to talk to inmates and to take pride in working the jails, which had been considered a second-class assignment.
Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie at a news conference Wednesday that Joyce Mitchell had talked to inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat about killing her husband, Lyle, who also works at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, near the Canadian border.
For a fresh perspective on what often feels like a stale gun debate, VICE talked to inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana.
