1 00:00:08,842 --> 00:00:10,744 CAROL BUCKLEY CAROL BUCKLEY 2 00:00:10,810 --> 00:00:18,084 >>> PEOPLE DRIVE PAST PRISONS EVERY DAY. >> THEY'RE TERRIFIED OF THEM. >> OR THEY DON'T THINK OF THEM 3 00:00:18,151 --> 00:00:22,889 AT ALL, RIGHT? IT'S, KIND OF, LIKE THIS FORGOTTEN ZONE. I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO FORGET 4 00:00:22,956 --> 00:00:29,028 ABOUT THIS PLACE. >> THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM HAS 157,000 INMATES IN ITS CUSTODY AND LOCKS 5 00:00:29,095 --> 00:00:34,267 UP SOME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS AND HIGH PROFILE CRIMINALS IN THE WORLD. TONIGHT, WE WILL TAKE YOU INSIDE 6 00:00:34,334 --> 00:00:46,579 THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS, AN AGENCY IN CRISIS. >>> ON THE BANKS OF THE ROME RIVER BY A TRANQUIL CITY PARK 7 00:00:46,646 --> 00:00:56,656 SITS THE HIGHLY SECURE GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS OF INTERPOL. 196 COUNTRIES ARE MEMBERS OF INTERPOL AND SHARE IMPORTANT 8 00:00:56,723 --> 00:01:01,561 INTELLIGENCE ABOUT WORLDWIDE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. BUT THERE ARE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY SOME OF THOSE COUNTRIES ARE 9 00:01:01,628 --> 00:01:08,968 STILL PART OF ITS ALLIANCE. >> I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW A COUNTRY THAT IS BEING INVESTIGATED FOR MASS MURDER CAN 10 00:01:09,035 --> 00:01:21,881 BE A MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING WITH INTERPOL. >>> "60 MINUTES" HAS DISCOVERED TIGERS ROAMING IN THE WILDS OF 11 00:01:21,948 --> 00:01:27,821 COLORADO AND ELEPHANTS IN GEORGIA? HOW OR WHY DO THESE ANIMALS APPEAR? 12 00:01:27,887 --> 00:01:39,933 MEET THE MODERN DAY NOAH, WHO LOOKS OUT FOR NATURE'S GREATEST BEASTS DURING THEIR GREATEST TIMES OF NEED. 13 00:01:39,999 --> 00:01:40,266 CAPTIONING FUNDED BY CBS 14 00:01:40,333 --> 00:01:49,409 >>> I'M LESLEY STALL. >> I'M BILL WHITAKER. >> I'M CECELIA VEGA. >> I'M SCOTT PELLEY. 15 00:01:49,476 --> 00:01:53,813 THOSE STORIES AND 16 00:01:58,051 --> 00:02:05,425 >>> THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM HAS 157,000 INMATES IN ITS CUSTODY AND LOCKS UP SOME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS 17 00:02:05,492 --> 00:02:12,665 AND HIGH PROFILE CRIMINALS IN THE WORLD. SERIAL KILLERS AND TERRORISTS ARE AMONG THOSE INSIDE ITS 122 18 00:02:12,732 --> 00:02:19,405 PRISONS, WHICH INCLUDES SUPERMAX PENITENTIARIES AND MINIMUM SECURITY CAMPS. THE COST TO AMERICAN TAX PAYERS 19 00:02:19,472 --> 00:02:28,648 IS MORE THAN $8 BILLION A YEAR. TONIGHT, WE WILL TAKE YOU INSIDE THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS, AN AGENCY IN CRISIS. 20 00:02:28,715 --> 00:02:35,922 A SERIES OF GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATIONS HAS FOUND THE BUREAU'S WORKFORCE IS DANGEROUSLY UNDERSTAFFED. 21 00:02:35,989 --> 00:02:43,463 AND INSIDE ITS WOMEN'S PRISONS, THERE IS AN ALARMIG PATTERN OF ABUSE. COLETTE PETERS IS IN CHARGE OF 22 00:02:43,530 --> 00:02:50,503 FIXING THE PRISONS. SHE'S THE SIXTH DIRECTOR IN SIX YEARS. >> Reporter: THIS IS ALICEVILLE, 23 00:02:50,570 --> 00:02:58,211 A LOW SECURITY WOMEN'S PRISON IN RURAL ALABAMA, WHERE MORE THAN 1,400 INMATES ARE SERVING TIME. >> PEOPLE DRIVE PAST PRISONS 24 00:02:58,278 --> 00:03:04,317 EVERY DAY. >> THEY'RE TERRIFIED OF THEM. >> OR THEY DON'T THINK ABOUT THEM AT ALL. 25 00:03:04,384 --> 00:03:08,454 IT'S, KIND OF, LIKE, THIS FORGOTTEN ZONE. I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO FORGET ABOUT THIS PLACE. 26 00:03:08,521 --> 00:03:15,261 >> Reporter: COLETTE PETERS BECAME DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS IN AUGUST 2022. AFTER A 20-YEAR CAREER IN 27 00:03:15,328 --> 00:03:20,300 CORRECTIONS, SHE'S BUILT A REPUTATION AS A REFORMER. >> I LOVE YOUR POSTER. WE ARE ALL STRONGER THAN WE 28 00:03:20,366 --> 00:03:26,506 THINK, AREN'T WE? >> Reporter: BEFORE BECOMING DIRECTOR, SHE WAS CREDITED WITH SHAPING OREGON'S STATE PRISON 29 00:03:26,573 --> 00:03:31,578 SYSTEM BY PRIORITIZING STAFF MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT AND ADVOCATING FOR THE COMPASSIONATE TREATMENT OF INMATES. 30 00:03:31,644 --> 00:03:39,652 >> I HAVE THIS VERY EARLY MEMORY IN KINDERGARTEN WHERE AN INDIVIDUAL CAME IN WITH A POCKET KNIFE AND WAS MARCHED TO THE 31 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:43,957 PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE. AND I JUST REMEMBER IN THAT MOMENT SAYING, I WANT TO HELP HIM. 32 00:03:44,023 --> 00:03:51,097 >> MANY PEOPLE IN YOUR CUSTODY ARE THERE BECAUSE OF HORRIFIC CRIMES. WHY DO THEY DESERVE COMPASSION? 33 00:03:51,164 --> 00:03:57,604 >> BECAUSE 95% OF THEM ARE GOING TO COME BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY SOME DAY. AND I WANT THEM TO BE 34 00:03:57,670 --> 00:04:05,545 PRODUCTIVE, TAX PAYING CITIZENS, WHO NO LONGER COMMIT CRIMES. >> Reporter: BUT THE BUREAU OF PRISONS IS SO INADEQUATELY 35 00:04:05,612 --> 00:04:12,685 STAFFED, IT IS STRUGGLING TO FULFILL ITS MISSION, REHABILITATING INMATES AND KEEPING ITS PRISONS SAFE. 36 00:04:12,752 --> 00:04:20,526 GOVERNMENT WATCHDOGS HAVE DOCUMENTED DISREPAIR IN ALL OF ITS INSTITUTIONS, REQUIRING MORE THAN $2 BILLION IN FIXES. 37 00:04:20,593 --> 00:04:26,899 AND EMPLOYEES RANK THE BUREAU OF PRISONS THE WORST PLACE TO WORK IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. >> IT'S VERY RARE FOR THE MEDIA 38 00:04:26,966 --> 00:04:32,939 TO BE ALLOWED INSIDE A FEDERAL PRISON. WHY ARE WE HERE? >> I TRULY BELIEVE IN 39 00:04:33,006 --> 00:04:37,243 TRANSPARENCY. ARE WE PERFECT? NO. DO WE HAVE ISSUES WE NEED TO 40 00:04:37,310 --> 00:04:40,546 RESOLVE? ABSOLUTELY. BUT I WANT PEOPLE TO SEE THE GOOD STUFF. 41 00:04:40,613 --> 00:04:48,688 >> Reporter: WE TOURED ALICEVILLE WITH DIRECTOR PETERS AND SAW WHERE INMATES LIVE, LEARN NEW TRADES, AND WORK. 42 00:04:48,755 --> 00:04:56,529 ON THIS DAY, SEWING SLEEPING BAGS FOR THE MILITARY, A COVETED JOB BECAUSE IT PAYS $1.15 AN HOUR. 43 00:04:56,596 --> 00:05:03,102 >> YOU LADIES ARE AMAZING, AND WHEN YOU LEAVE HERE, YOU'RE GOING TO BE INCREDIBLE. >> THIS CEREMONY IS FOR INMATES 44 00:05:03,169 --> 00:05:10,043 GRADUATING FROM A FAITH-BASED PROGRAM PREPARING THEM FOR LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE, BY CONNECTING THEM WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS AND 45 00:05:10,109 --> 00:05:16,849 TEACHING THEM LIFE SKILLS, LIKE ANGER MANAGEMENT. BUT THE REALITY IS NEARLY HALF OF FEDERAL INMATES WILL END UP 46 00:05:16,916 --> 00:05:23,322 BACK BEHIND BARS OR ARRESTED WITHIN THREE YEARS OF GETTING OUT. >> A LOT OF THOSE FACES IN 47 00:05:23,389 --> 00:05:28,161 THERE, WHO HAVE SO MUCH PROMISE AND HOPE TODAY, COULD END UP RIGHT BACK IN HERE. >> YEAH, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE 48 00:05:28,227 --> 00:05:36,636 HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO TO DIAL DOWN THAT RECIDIVISM RATE. WE HAVE TO SEND FEWER PEOPLE TO PRISON FOR SHORTER PERIODS OF 49 00:05:36,703 --> 00:05:41,941 TIME, AND WHEN THEY'RE HERE, DO THINGS LIKE THAT. >> YOU ALSO HAVE A MAJOR STAFFING ISSUE, AND PEOPLE CAN'T 50 00:05:42,008 --> 00:05:46,679 GET THESE CLASSES THEY NEED. >> STAFFING WAS A PROBLEM BEFORE THE PANDEMIC. SO, THOSE RECRUITMENT EFFORTS 51 00:05:46,746 --> 00:05:52,785 AND THOSE RETENTION EFFORTS HAVE GOTTEN HARD. >> HOW MANY CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS DO YOU NEED ON STAFF TO 52 00:05:52,852 --> 00:06:00,193 GET YOU OUT OF THIS STAFFING CRISIS? >> SO, WE HOPE TO HAVE THAT REAL NUMBER FOR YOU AND THE PUBLIC 53 00:06:00,259 --> 00:06:05,231 VERY SOON. >> THAT SEEMS LIKE A CRITICAL NUMBER. HOW WAS THAT NOT ON YOUR DESK 54 00:06:05,298 --> 00:06:10,837 WHEN YOU TOOK THIS JOB ON DAY ONE AND STILL NOT THERE A YEAR LATER? >> THE GOOD NEWS IS THIS WAS A 55 00:06:10,903 --> 00:06:16,943 PROBLEM THE BUREAU WAS TRYING TO SOLVE BEFORE I GOT HERE, AND WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF SOLVING IT. 56 00:06:17,009 --> 00:06:26,686 >> DIRECTOR PETERS SAYS SHE EXPECTS TO HAVE THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS NEEDED BY OCTOBER, MORE THAN TWO YEARS AFTER TAKING 57 00:06:26,753 --> 00:06:32,058 OFFICE. BUT SHANE FAUSEY SAYS HE KNOWS WHAT THAT NUMBER IS NOW. >> WE'RE SHORT ABOUT 8,000 58 00:06:32,125 --> 00:06:37,497 POSITIONS NATIONWIDE. >> HOW BAD IS IT? >> THE RESULT IS ONE OF US LOSING OUR LIFE. 59 00:06:37,563 --> 00:06:42,135 AND IT'S THAT BAD. WE CAN'T CONTINUE WITH THIS COURSE. >> Reporter: BY THE UNION'S 60 00:06:42,201 --> 00:06:49,342 COUNT, THE BUREAU OF PRISONS IS DOWN ABOUT 40% OF THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS IT NEEDS. >> THE LESS SUPERVISION YOU 61 00:06:49,408 --> 00:06:54,714 HAVE, THE MORE BAD THINGS HAPPEN. MISCONDUCT INCREASES, VIOLENCE INCREASES. 62 00:06:54,781 --> 00:07:00,286 >> Reporter: AND BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH OFFICERS, THE BUREAU RELIES ON OTHER PRISON STAFF TO STEP IN. 63 00:07:00,353 --> 00:07:08,427 IT'S A CONTROVERSIAL PRACTICE CALLED AUGMENTATION. >> TEACHERS, NURSES, DOCTORS, FOOD SERVICE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE 64 00:07:08,494 --> 00:07:14,467 THAT MAINTAIN FACILITIES -- >> Reporter: THEY'RE DOING WHAT NOW? >> THEY'RE IN A HOUSING UNIT 65 00:07:14,534 --> 00:07:17,937 SUPERVISING OFFENDERS. >> Reporter: DO THEY HAVE TRAINING IN THAT? >> THEY DO. 66 00:07:18,004 --> 00:07:23,876 BUT I CAN TELL YOU, I'M NO BETTER A PLUMBER THAN THEY ARE A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER. I CAN WALK INTO A HOUSING UNIT 67 00:07:23,943 --> 00:07:29,348 AND TELL YOU SOMETHING'S RIGHT OR SOMETHING'S WRONG. YOU DEVELOP THAT OVER YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. 68 00:07:29,415 --> 00:07:34,654 >> Reporter: LET'S BREAK THIS DOWN. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HVAC REPAIRMEN AND ACCOUNTANTS WHO 69 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:41,194 ARE NOW GUARDING INMATES. THAT DOESN'T SOUND SAFE. >> SO, IT IS. SO, THEY HAVE THE EXACT SAME 70 00:07:41,260 --> 00:07:48,000 TRAINING AS THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS. NOW, WHAT I WILL SAY IS, AUGMENTATION SHOULD ONLY BE USED 71 00:07:48,067 --> 00:07:55,107 IN THE SHORT TERM. WE'VE USED THIS NOW TO SOLVE A LONG-TERM RETENTION AND RECRUITMENT PROBLEM, AND THAT 72 00:07:55,174 --> 00:08:01,414 ISN'T RIGHT. >> Reporter: ON THIS POINT, THE UNION AND MANAGEMENT AGREE. PRISON STAFF, LIKE TEACHERS AND 73 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:07,854 DOCTORS, NEED TO BE ABLE TO DO THEIR JOBS SO THAT INMATES DON'T LOSE ACCESS TO CRITICAL SERVICES AND PROGRAMS. 74 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,558 >> THERE ARE BUZZ PHRASES. EVERYBODY'S A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER FIRST. THAT SOUNDS GOOD ON PAPER. 75 00:08:12,625 --> 00:08:20,600 BUT IF YOU TAKE THE TEACHER OUT OF THE CLASSROOM AND NOBODY IS TEACHING THE OFFENDER THE SKILLS TO GO BACK OUT TO SOCIETY, WE'RE 76 00:08:20,666 --> 00:08:27,240 JUST BACK TO WAREHOUSING PEOPLE. >> Reporter: WHILE WE WALK THE HALLS OF ALICEVILLE, CRLASSROOM WERE PACKED. 77 00:08:27,306 --> 00:08:33,713 BUT SEVERAL INMATES TOLD US THAT MUCH OF WHAT WE SAW IN OUR TOUR WAS STAGED. >> AM I GETTING A REAL LOOK AT 78 00:08:33,779 --> 00:08:40,987 WHAT LIFE IS LIKE IN HERE TODAY? >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. >> NO, DEFINITELY NOT. >> IT'S VERY DISRESPECTFUL HERE. 79 00:08:41,053 --> 00:08:46,025 >> EVEN THOUGH WE MADE MISTAKES, WHEN WE'RE OUT HERE, WE'RE NOT TREATED WITH RESPECT. >> YOU FEEL SAFE HERE? 80 00:08:46,092 --> 00:08:51,397 >> SOMETIMES. >> PRISON IS PRISON. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? >> TELL ME ABOUT STAFFING. 81 00:08:51,464 --> 00:08:56,636 >> THEY'RE SHORT STAFFED ALL THE TIME. THERE'S TIMES WHERE YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE 82 00:08:56,702 --> 00:09:02,174 TO GO OUTSIDE BECAUSE SOMEBODY DIDN'T COME TO WORK. >> AND IF YOU WERE TO SPEAK UP ABOUT SOME OF THESE ISSUES THAT 83 00:09:02,241 --> 00:09:10,016 YOU'RE TELLING ME ABOUT, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? >> YOU'RE GOING TO THE SHU. >> Reporter: THE SHU, SHORT FOR 84 00:09:10,082 --> 00:09:19,091 SPECIAL HOUSING UNIT, IS INCITE THE JAIL, WHERE INMATES ARE SEGREGATED FROM THE GENERAL POPULATION. 85 00:09:19,158 --> 00:09:24,130 >> MAKING YOU NERVOUS TO TALK TO ME RIGHT NOW? >> A LITTLE BIT. >> WHAT DOES THE DIRECTOR NEED 86 00:09:24,196 --> 00:09:29,602 TO KNOW ABOUT ALICEVILLE? >> FIX IT. >> WE NEED THE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW AND REHABILITATE. 87 00:09:29,669 --> 00:09:36,642 WE DON'T HAVE THAT HERE. >> Reporter: I TALKED TO A HANDFUL OF INMATE HERE TODAY, AND THEY SAY YOU'RE GETTING A 88 00:09:36,709 --> 00:09:42,448 CLEANED UP VERSION OF WHAT LIFE IS REALLY LIKE. >> I'VE BEEN DOING THIS WORK FOR A LONG TIME, SO I CAN SEE WHEN 89 00:09:42,515 --> 00:09:48,287 THINGS HAVE BEEN SWEPT UNDER THE RUG. I'M NOT NAIVE. WHEN ANYBODY COMES TO YOUR 90 00:09:48,354 --> 00:09:54,360 HOUSE, YOU CLEAN IT UP. >> Reporter: OF ALL THE ISSUES, PERHAPS DONE IS MORE DISTURBING THAN THE RAMPANT SEXUAL ABUSE OF 91 00:09:54,427 --> 00:10:03,803 FEMALE INMATES BY THE MALE OFFICERS WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THEM. WOMEN ARE HUGHOUSED IN NEARLY A 92 00:10:03,869 --> 00:10:10,443 QUARTER OF PRISONS, AND AN INVESTIGATION FOUND BUREAU STAFF HAVE SEXUALLY ABUSED PRISONERS IN AT LEAST TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE 93 00:10:10,509 --> 00:10:18,117 FACILITIES OVER THE PAST DECADE. ALICEVILLE IS NO EXCEPTION. THREE OFFICERS HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF SEXUAL ABUSE SINCE 94 00:10:18,184 --> 00:10:22,421 2020, INCLUDING ONE WHO PLEADED GUILTY EARLIER THIS MONTH. >> THOSE ARE JUST THE CASES THAT WE KNOW ABOUT. 95 00:10:22,488 --> 00:10:28,327 HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING? >> YOU CAN'T PREDICT HUMAN BEHAVIOR. BUT WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THE 96 00:10:28,394 --> 00:10:35,468 THINGS THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN PLACE TO MANAGE TO THAT MISCONDUCT I THINK ARE THE RIGHT THINGS AND SENDING A CLEAR 97 00:10:35,534 --> 00:10:40,539 MESSAGE THAT THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR IS EGREGIOUS, HORRENDOUS, AND UNEXCUSABLE. >> Reporter: BUT FEMALE INMATES 98 00:10:40,606 --> 00:10:48,414 AT A WOMEN'S PRISON IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ACCUSE DIRECTOR PETERS AND THE BUREAU OF PRISONS OF FAILING TO PROTECT THEM. 99 00:10:48,481 --> 00:10:55,588 ITS OFFICIAL NAME IS FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONAL DUBLIN. BUT IT'S KNOWN BY INMATES AND 100 00:10:55,654 --> 00:11:03,562 STAFF AS THE RAPE CLUB. SEVEN DUBLIN OFFICERS, INCLUDING THE WARDEN AND THE CHAPLAIN, HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF SEXUALLY 101 00:11:03,629 --> 00:11:10,870 ABUSING NEARLY TWO DOZEN INMATES FROM 2018 TO 2021. AND THIS PAST AUGUST, EIGHT INMATES FILED SUIT, CLAIMING 102 00:11:10,936 --> 00:11:15,241 SEXUAL ABUSE CONTINUES TO THIS DAY. >> THESE ARE MOTHERS. THEY'RE DAUGHTERS. 103 00:11:15,307 --> 00:11:22,915 THEY'RE SISTERS. >> Reporter: TESS WORKED AS A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER AT DUBLIN FOR 25 YEARS. 104 00:11:22,982 --> 00:11:29,955 SHE RESIGNED IN 2022 AFTER SHE SAYS SHE WAS RETALIATED AGAINST FOR WHISTLEBLOWERING. >> THEY BRAIN US IN THE RED 105 00:11:30,022 --> 00:11:36,996 FLAGS TO LOOK FOR. AND THEN WHEN WE REPORT, HEY, EVERY RED FLAG, THIS GUY MEETS. YOU NEED TO GO DEAL WITH THIS. 106 00:11:37,063 --> 00:11:42,401 THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING. >> WHAT WAS THE CHAPLAIN DOING THAT MADE YOU SUSPICIOUS? >> ONE TIME I CAME IN ON A 107 00:11:42,468 --> 00:11:49,341 WEEKEND. HE DIDN'T KNOW I WAS THERE. HIS OFFICE WAS DARK, AND HE HAD AN INMATE IN THERE WITH HIM. 108 00:11:49,408 --> 00:11:56,315 AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING. >> THAT'S A RED FLAG. >> OH, DEFINITELY. 109 00:11:56,382 --> 00:12:02,955 >> Reporter: FORMER OFFICER SAYS SHE REPORTED THE CHAPLAIN AND OTHER OFFICERS WHO SHE EXPECTED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING INMATES TO 110 00:12:03,022 --> 00:12:09,462 AN INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATOR BUT WAS IGNORED FOR YEARS UNTIL FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS STEPPED IN. 111 00:12:09,528 --> 00:12:17,570 >> WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OFFICERS YOU ACCUSED? >> MOST OF THEM HAVE BEEN OR ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING 112 00:12:17,636 --> 00:12:22,274 CONVICTED. AND A LOT OF THEM ARE NAMED IN LAWSUITS RIGHT NOW. >> HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL? 113 00:12:22,341 --> 00:12:29,248 >> GOOD. >> Reporter: THE BUREAU OF PRISONS HAS A BACKLOG OF NEARLY 8,000 OPEN MISCONDUCT 114 00:12:29,315 --> 00:12:34,086 INVESTIGATIONS, HUNDREDS OF WHICH CONTAIN ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE. DIRECTOR PETERS HIRED MORE STAFF 115 00:12:34,153 --> 00:12:41,260 TO TACKLE THE BACKLOG, BUT SHE SAYS IT WILL TAKE TWO YEARS TO CLEAR THOSE CASES. IN RESPONSE TO THE DUBLIN 116 00:12:41,327 --> 00:12:48,200 LAWSUIT, BUREAU OF PRISONS LAWYERS SAY INMATES' CLAIMS HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED AND THAT NO THREAT REMAINS. 117 00:12:48,267 --> 00:12:57,409 >> WE'VE DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB IN THE LAST YEAR REBUILDING THAT CULTURE AND CREATING A INSTITUTION THAT IS MORE SAFE, 118 00:12:57,476 --> 00:13:05,317 WHERE INDIVIDUALS FEEL COMFORTABLE COMING FORWARD AND REPORTING CLAIMS. >> YOU JUST USED THE PHRASE, 119 00:13:05,384 --> 00:13:11,924 "TREMENDOUS JOB" IN DUBLIN. EIGHT INMATES HAVE FILED A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT, AND THEY'VE GOT TESTIMONY FROM MORE THAN 40 120 00:13:11,991 --> 00:13:17,763 CURRENT AND FORMER DUBLIN INMATES WHO SAY THAT THE ABUSE IS ONGOING. >> THAT MEANS THE PROCESS IS 121 00:13:17,830 --> 00:13:22,868 WORKING, THAT THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO COME FORWARD, THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BRING THAT CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT TOGETHER. 122 00:13:22,935 --> 00:13:28,974 > THESE DUBLIN INMATES SAY THEY ARE FACING RETALIATION FOR SPEAKING OUT. >> I HAVE BEEN VERY CLEAR THAT 123 00:13:29,041 --> 00:13:33,779 RETALIATION WILL NOT BE STOOD ON MY WATCH. SO, WHEN ALLEGATIONS OF RETALIATION COME FORWARD, THEY 124 00:13:33,846 --> 00:13:37,783 ARE INVESTIGATED. AND WE WILL HOLD THOSE PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE. >> IT'S ONE THING FOR YOU TO SAY 125 00:13:37,850 --> 00:13:44,490 THAT RETALIATION IS NOT TOLERATED, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S ACTUALLY STILL HAPPENING. >> AGAIN, I WOULD SAY THOSE ARE 126 00:13:44,557 --> 00:13:50,396 ALLEGATIONS. I WOULD LIKE TO BE MORE GROUNDED IN FACT, AROUND PROVEN RETALIATION. 127 00:13:50,462 --> 00:13:57,736 >> Reporter: THE FACT IS THAT AN ADDITIONAL 19 STAFF MEMBERS HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF ABUSING INMATES. THE BUREAU SAYS THOSE STAFF 128 00:13:57,803 --> 00:14:06,045 MEMBERS HAVE BEEN PUT ON LEAVE, NEW MANAGEMENT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN, AND THERE ARE NOW WORKING SECURITY CAMERAS IN AREAS WHERE 129 00:14:06,111 --> 00:14:16,822 INMATES WERE ABUSED. >> WHAT ARE THESE VICTIMS OWED? >> TO HAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN OUR CARE WHO RELY ON US FOR 130 00:14:16,889 --> 00:14:25,164 THEIR SAFETY AND SECURITY AND TO HAVE THAT BE VIOLATED, I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CAN BRING ANYTHING THAT WOULD UNDO THAT WRONG. 131 00:14:25,231 --> 00:14:31,103 >> WHAT ABOUT AN APOLOGY? THE VICTIMS IN DUBLIN SAY THEY'VE NEVER RECEIVED AN APOLOGY. 132 00:14:31,170 --> 00:14:39,278 >> WELL, I WILL TELL YOU THAT IS OUR MISSION TO KEEP THEM SAFE. THAT IS OUR JOB. >> IS IT YOUR JOB TO APOLOGIZE 133 00:14:39,345 --> 00:14:44,383 FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN DUBLIN? >> I DON'T KNOW THAT MY JOB IS TO APOLOGIZE? IS IT HEARTBREAKING AND 134 00:14:44,450 --> 00:14:52,124 HORRENDOUS TO HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN WHEN YOU ARE PROUD OF YOUR PROFESSION, AS A CORRECTIONS PROFESSIONAL? 135 00:14:52,191 --> 00:14:57,596 ABSOLUTELY. >> Reporter: IN ADDITION TO THE LAWSUIT FILED THIS PAST AUGUST, MORE THAN 45 CURRENT AND FORMER 136 00:14:57,663 --> 00:15:05,904 DUBLIN INMATES HAVE FILED LAWSUITS ALLEGING SEXUAL ABUSE BY BUREAU OF PRISON STAFF. 137 00:15:10,809 --> 00:15:17,483 . >>> IF YOU'RE A FAN OF CRIME NOVELS AND MOVIES, YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF INTERPOL, THE 138 00:15:17,549 --> 00:15:23,922 INTERNATIONAL POLICE ORGANIZATION WAS STARTED 100 YEARS AGO, WHEN 20 COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE U.S., CAME 139 00:15:23,989 --> 00:15:32,031 TOGETHER TO FIGHT INTERNATIONAL CRIME. TODAY, IT HAS 196 MEMBERS, CONNECTING THE NEW YORK POLICE 140 00:15:32,097 --> 00:15:38,337 DEPARTMENT, SCOTLAND YARD, POLICE IN MOSCOW, MUMBAI, MANILA. BUT FOR ALL ITS GOOD WORK, 141 00:15:38,404 --> 00:15:45,577 INTERPOL HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF DOING THE DIRTY WORK OF SOME OF ITS MORE REPRESSIVE MEMBERS. RUSSIA, FOR ONE, HAS USED 142 00:15:45,644 --> 00:15:54,086 INTERPOL TO TRACK DOWN PEOPLE WHO HAVE RUN AFOUL OF PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN. WE VISITED INTERPOL IN LEONE, 143 00:15:54,153 --> 00:16:01,393 FRANCE, LAST FALL AND FOUND AN INSTITUTION TRYING TO NAVIGATE THE TREACHEROUS PATH BETWEEN POLICING AND POLITICS. 144 00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:10,903 ON THE BANKS OF THE ROME RIVER BY A TRANQUIL CITY PARK CITIES THE HIGHLY SECURE GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS OF INTERPOL. 145 00:16:10,969 --> 00:16:18,043 FOR THE PAST DECADE, IT'S BEEN LED BY JURGEN STOCK, A FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GERMAN FEDERAL POLICE. 146 00:16:18,110 --> 00:16:23,882 >> THE PURPOSE OF INTERPOL IS STILL THE SAME, CONNECTING POLICE FOR A SAFER WORLD. >> Reporter: AS INTERPOL'S 147 00:16:23,949 --> 00:16:33,859 SECRETARY GENERAL, STOCK MANAGES OPERATIONS IN LEONE AND REGIONAL OFFICES ON FIVE CONTINENTS. 900 EMPLOYEES WORK AT THE LEONE 148 00:16:33,926 --> 00:16:39,431 HEADQUARTERS. MANY ARE POLICE OFFICERS ON LOAN FROM MEMBER COUNTRIES, CHOSEN FOR THEIR EXPERTISE. 149 00:16:39,498 --> 00:16:47,206 THEY DON'T CARRY GUNS OR MAKE ARRESTS BUT RATHER COLLECT AND SHARE INFORMATION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AROUND THE 150 00:16:47,272 --> 00:16:53,312 GLOBE. INTERPOL ALSO HAS BUREAUS IN EACH MEMBER COUNTRY, INCLUDING ONE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., MANAGED 151 00:16:53,379 --> 00:17:00,819 BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF JUSTICE AND HOMELAND SECURITY. >> SO, WHAT IS THE MAIN MISSION OF INTERPOL? 152 00:17:00,886 --> 00:17:06,291 >> I WOULD DESCRIBE IT AS AN INFORMATION BROKER. WE COLLECT, WE INVITE MEMBER COUNTRIES TO SHARE INFORMATION. 153 00:17:06,358 --> 00:17:14,733 WE DO ANALYSIS. WE ENRICH THE INFORMATION. INTERPOL'S INFORMATION IS LEADING TO ARRESTS OF HIGH-LEVEL 154 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:19,338 CRIMINALS, MURDERERS, DRUG TRAFFICKERS, THOSE WHO ARE ABUSING CHILDREN ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 155 00:17:19,405 --> 00:17:27,413 EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT HAPPENS. >> Reporter: LAST YEAR, INTERPOL COORDINATED A CRACKDOWN ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION, 156 00:17:27,479 --> 00:17:37,589 OPERATION GLOBAL CHAIN, THAT LED TO 212 ARRESTS IN 22 COUNTRIES AND THE RELEASE OF MORE THAN 1,400 VICTIMS FORCED INTO 157 00:17:37,656 --> 00:17:45,397 CRIMINALITY. IT'S BEEN GOING AFTER ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL CRIME ORGANIZATIONS, ITALY BASED -- 158 00:17:45,464 --> 00:17:53,872 THANKS TO INTERPOL THE SECOND MOST WANTED MAN IN ITALY WAS ARRESTED IN BRAZIL AFTER 23 YEARS ON THE RUN. 159 00:17:53,939 --> 00:18:00,145 >> WE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY HIM THROUGH IMAGES THAT WERE SHARED THAT ALLOWED US TO BE SURE IT WAS THE GUY. 160 00:18:00,212 --> 00:18:10,789 >> TATTOOS? >> TATTOOS. >> CYRIL GOUT OVERSEAS 19 MASSIVE DATABASES WHICH ARE 161 00:18:10,856 --> 00:18:23,402 QUERIED 20 MILLION TIMES A DAY. THEY ARE A COMPENDIUM OF CRIME, PIRACY, FUGITIVES, ELICIT FIREARMS, STOLEN TRAVEL 162 00:18:23,469 --> 00:18:28,373 DOCUMENTS. >> MY ROLE IS TO MAKE THIS INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO THE END USERS. 163 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:33,512 >> THE MEMBERS. >> THE MEMBER COUNTRIES OF INTERPOL. BUT FOR ME, THE CUSTOMERS, THE 164 00:18:33,579 --> 00:18:39,184 END USERS. THESE ARE THE POLICE OFFICERS WHO WANT TO ARREST THOSE MAJOR CRIMINALS AND PROVIDING THEM 165 00:18:39,251 --> 00:18:44,590 WITH ACTIONABLE INFORMATION EVERYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD. >> Reporter: INTERPOL HAS A NUMBER OF WAYS TO ALERT ITS 166 00:18:44,656 --> 00:18:51,330 MEMBERS, INCLUDING A YELLOW NOTICE FOR MISSING PERSONS, A BLACK NOTICE FOR UNIDENTIFIED BODIES. 167 00:18:51,396 --> 00:19:00,072 PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT, THE RED NOTICE, A CLOSELY GUARDED LIST OF 74,000 OF THE WORLD'S MOST WANTED FUGITIVES. 168 00:19:00,138 --> 00:19:07,946 WITH THE SUSPECT'S NAME, PICTURE, FINGERPRINTS, DETAILS OF THE ALLEGED CRIME, AND THE COUNTRY SEEKING THE ARREST. 169 00:19:08,013 --> 00:19:13,886 >> THE RED NOTICE IS NOT AN INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANT. THAT IS ALSO VERY OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD. 170 00:19:13,952 --> 00:19:18,423 >> HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE IT? IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S A DIGITAL WANTED POSTER. >> YES. 171 00:19:18,490 --> 00:19:24,963 IT'S AN ALERT THAT WE ARE DISSEMINATING THAT SOMEBODY IS WANTED BY A MEMBER COUNTRY. >> Reporter: EACH NOTICE IS 172 00:19:25,030 --> 00:19:32,704 VETTED BY A TASK FORCE SECRETARY GENERAL STOCK CREATED TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T VIOLATE RULES FORBIDDING THE USE OF INTERPOL 173 00:19:32,771 --> 00:19:39,344 FOR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, OR RACIAL PERSECUTION. BUT THE VETTING IS NOT FOOLPROOF. 174 00:19:39,411 --> 00:19:46,685 >> SOME OF INTERPOL'S MORE REPRESSIVE MEMBERS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF RED NOTICES, USING FABRICATED CHARGES TO LOCATE, 175 00:19:46,752 --> 00:19:56,128 DETAIN, AND EXTRADITE PEOPLE THEY WANT TO GET THEIR HANDS ON, LIKE POLITICAL DISSIDENTS OR INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO HAVE MERELY 176 00:19:56,194 --> 00:20:01,934 DISPLEASED POWERFUL OFFICIALS. >> LIKE ANY INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, THE INFORMATION YOU GET OUT IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE 177 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:11,443 INFORMATION YOU PUT IN. >> RHYS DAVIES, ON THE LEFT, AND BEN KEEF ARE BARRISTERS, BRITISH LAWYERS, WHO HELP PEOPLE ACCUSED 178 00:20:11,510 --> 00:20:22,087 OF CRIMES TO NAVIGATE INTERPOL'S COMPLEX BUREAUCRACY. >> OUR CLIENTS COME TO US AND SAY, WE'VE BEEN ACCUSED IN A 179 00:20:22,154 --> 00:20:30,529 PARTICULAR STATE, WHICH HAS BEEN FABRICATED. INTERPOL HAS TAKEN THIS AT FACE VALUE, ISSUED A RED NOTICE. 180 00:20:30,596 --> 00:20:38,170 >> Reporter: BOTH CONCEDE INTERPOL DOES A LOT OF GOOD, DESPITE A YEARLY BUDGET OF $170 MILLION, WHICH IS ABOUT THE 181 00:20:38,236 --> 00:20:41,039 SIZE OF THE OMAHA POLICE DEPARTMENT. >> THE CONSTITUTION SAYS THEY ARE MEANT TO BELIEVE THEIR 182 00:20:41,106 --> 00:20:48,313 MEMBER STATES. SO, WHEN A MEMBER STATE -- RUSSIA, CHINA, TURKEY -- WHOSE RULE OF LAW IS OFTEN 183 00:20:48,380 --> 00:20:55,354 NON-EXISTENT SAY TO THEM, A PARTICULAR PERSON IS WANTED FOR CRIMINAL OFFENSE, THEY ARE BOUND BY THE CONSTITUTION TO ALEVE 184 00:20:55,420 --> 00:21:00,092 THEM. >> DOES INTERPOL VIEW ALL THE INFORMATION THAT COMES OUT OF ALL OF THEM AS EQUAL? 185 00:21:00,158 --> 00:21:05,597 >> THIS IS ONE OF OUR MAIN FRUSTRATIONS IS THE INTERPOL DON'T PENALIZE COUNTRIES PROPERLY. 186 00:21:05,664 --> 00:21:16,041 >> THEY WERE NEVER IN THAT CLUB. >> THEY WERE NEVER IN THE CLUB. >> WHEN A COUNTRY IS CLEARLY E EGREGIOUSLY BREACHING THE RULES, 187 00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:21,847 THEY DON'T SUSPEND THEM. THEY HAVE NOT SUSPENDED RUSSIA. RUSSIA IS STILL AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF INTERPOL. 188 00:21:21,913 --> 00:21:29,221 >> Reporter: RUSSIA ACCOUNTS FOR NEARLY HALF OF THE RED NOTICES INTERPOL MAKES PUBLIC. ACCORDING TO A RUSSIAN POLICE 189 00:21:29,287 --> 00:21:36,395 OFFICIAL, ITS INTERPOL BUREAU IN MOSCOW HELPED ARREST AND EXTRADITE MORE THAN 100 CRIMINALS IN 2021. 190 00:21:36,461 --> 00:21:43,168 AND IN 2022 HELPED NAB THE FOUNDER OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST DARK NET CRIMINAL MARKETPLACE CALLED HYDRA. 191 00:21:43,235 --> 00:21:52,544 BUT SOME OF THE INFORMATION RUSH GIVES INTERPOL IS SUSPECT. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS, AND THE EUROPEAN 192 00:21:52,611 --> 00:22:00,452 UNION HAVE LABELLED RUSSIA A SERIAL ABUSER OF RED NOTICES. >> SO, RUSSIA IS WIDELY VIEWED AS BEING VERY BRAZEN IN ITS 193 00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:04,956 ATTEMPTS TO MANIPULATE THE SYSTEM. THE FAMOUS EXAMPLE WE TALK ABOUT IS BILL BROWDER. 194 00:22:05,023 --> 00:22:13,198 >> Reporter: BILL BROWDER IS A LONDON-BASED AMERICAN-BORN FINANCIER. HE MADE HIS FORTUNE IN RUSSIA, 195 00:22:13,265 --> 00:22:22,674 BUT HAS SPENT THE LAST 11 YEARS ON THE RUN FROM PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, AFTER HE AND HIS LAWYER EXPOSED CORRUPTION BY 196 00:22:22,741 --> 00:22:29,247 RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. HIS LAWYER WAS ARRESTED AND DIED AFTER BEING BEATEN IN A MOSCOW PRISON. 197 00:22:29,314 --> 00:22:37,022 BROWDER WAS CONVICTED IN ABSENTIA ON SUSPECT FRAUD CHARGES. THE KREMLIN TURNED TO INTERPOL 198 00:22:37,089 --> 00:22:43,962 TO BRING HIM IN. >> SO, HOW MANY TIMES, BY YOUR COUNT, HAS RUSSIA TRIED TO ARREST YOU BY WAY OF INTERPOL? 199 00:22:44,029 --> 00:22:52,704 >> EIGHT TIMES. I MUST HOLD THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS FOR THE NUMBER OF TIMES THEY'VE TRIED TO ABUSE 200 00:22:52,771 --> 00:22:56,742 INTERPOL. >> Reporter: HIS CLOSEST CALL CAME IN 2018, WHEN HE WAS VISITING SPAIN. 201 00:22:56,808 --> 00:23:03,181 >> I OPENED THE DOOR OF THE HOTEL. AND OUTSIDE THE DOOR, JUST ABOUT TO KNOCK, IS THE MANAGER OF THE 202 00:23:03,248 --> 00:23:11,022 HOTEL AND TWO UNIFORMED OFFICERS FROM THE SPANISH POLICE. I PULL OUT MY PASSPORT, I HAND IT TO THE -- ONE OF THE TWO 203 00:23:11,089 --> 00:23:14,726 POLICE OFFICERS. AND HE SAID, YOU'RE UNDER ARREST. AND I SAID, WHAT FOR? 204 00:23:14,793 --> 00:23:21,800 AND HE SAID, INTERPOL, RUSSIA. >> Reporter: THE HOTEL MANAGER TOLD HIM TO COLLECT HIS THINGS FROM THE BEDROOM. 205 00:23:21,867 --> 00:23:29,241 ONCE OUTOF SIGHT, BROWDER GRABBED HIS PHONE AND SENT OUT THIS TWEET. >> AT THE TIME, I HAD ABOUT 206 00:23:29,307 --> 00:23:36,481 100,000 FOLLOWERS, AND I TWEETED OUT, URGENT, BEING ARRESTED IN MADRID, SPAIN, RIGHT NOW. >> THAT WAS QUICK THINKING. 207 00:23:36,548 --> 00:23:42,220 >> THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME I HAD THIS WORRY. THEY'D BEEN CHASING ME WITH INTERPOL FOR A LONG TIME. 208 00:23:42,287 --> 00:23:49,628 I'M SITTING IN THE BACK OF THE POLICE CAR AND I TOOK A PICTURE OF THE BACK OF THEIR HEADS. >> Reporter: HE SENT THIS 209 00:23:49,694 --> 00:23:54,900 PICTURE IN A SECOND URGENT TWEET, IN THE BACK OF THE SPANISH POLICE CAR GOING TO THE STATION ON THE RUSSIAN ARREST 210 00:23:54,966 --> 00:23:58,503 WARRANT. >> WHAT WERE YOU HOPING TO ACCOMPLISH? >> I'M HOPING TO WAKE THE WHOLE 211 00:23:58,570 --> 00:24:06,478 WORLD UP TO THE FACT I'M BEING ARRESTED. I DIDN'T WANT TO BE SLIPPED INTO THE BACK OF A RUSSIAN JET AND 212 00:24:06,545 --> 00:24:12,083 SENT OFF WITHOUT ANYONE KNOWING WHERE I WAS. >> WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS HAPPENING OR WAS GOING TO 213 00:24:12,150 --> 00:24:15,854 HAPPEN? >> IF I WAS SENT TO RUSSIA, I WOULD BE KILLED, NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. 214 00:24:15,921 --> 00:24:21,159 >> Reporter: WHILE BROWDER STAYED LOCKED IN A HOLDING CELL, HIS TWEETS WENT AROUND THE WORLD. 215 00:24:21,226 --> 00:24:30,101 >> THE CHIEF OF POLICE COMES BACK WITH A TRANSLATOR AND SAYS, WE'VE JUST GOTTEN OFF THE PHONE WITH INTERPOL GENERAL 216 00:24:30,168 --> 00:24:33,638 SECRETARIAT. THE WARRANT IS NO LONGER VALID. YOU'RE FREE TO GO. >> WOW. 217 00:24:33,705 --> 00:24:41,179 AS A RESULT OF YOUR TWEETS? >> AS A RESULT OF THE TWEETS. >> ARE YOU FEARFUL THAT THIS COULD HAPPEN AGAIN? 218 00:24:41,246 --> 00:24:48,553 >> EVERY TIME I CROSS THE BORDER, MY HEART STARTS BEATING A LITTLE BIT FASTER. >> Reporter: WE ASKED JURGEN 219 00:24:48,620 --> 00:24:53,959 STOCK WHY, AFTER ALL THIS, RUSSIA HASN'T BEEN SUSPENDED FROM INTERPOL, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE U.N. IS 220 00:24:54,025 --> 00:25:00,832 INVESTIGATING RUSSIA FOR WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE. >> I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW A COUNTRY THAT IS BEING 221 00:25:00,899 --> 00:25:09,074 INVESTIGATED FOR MASS MURDER CAN BE A MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING WITH INTERPOL. >> INTERPOL INTRODUCED SOME 222 00:25:09,140 --> 00:25:16,648 MEASURES WHEN THE CONFLICT STARTED TO AVOID ANY POLITICAL ABAFS ABUSE OF OUR SYSTEMS. 223 00:25:16,715 --> 00:25:26,491 BUT WE ALSO DECIDED TO KEEP THE CHANNELS OF INFORMATION OPEN. >> Reporter: RUSSIA IS HARDLY THE ONLY COUNTRY TO USE INTERPOL 224 00:25:26,558 --> 00:25:34,633 TO DO ITS DIRTY WORK. BAHRAIN, FOR EXAMPLE, USED INTERPOL TO NAB A PROFESSIONAL SOCCER PLAYER, AN OUTSPOKEN 225 00:25:34,699 --> 00:25:41,439 CRITIC OF THE GOVERNMENT AT THE BANGKOK AIRPORT IN 2018. HE SPENT TWO AND A HALF MONTHS IN A THAI PRISON. 226 00:25:41,506 --> 00:25:49,114 CHINA USED A RED NOTICE TO ARREST THIS ACTIVIST IN MOROCCO IN 2021. HE REMAINS IN PRISON AWAITING 227 00:25:49,180 --> 00:25:55,787 EXTRADITION. AND QATAR ISSUED A RED NOTICE FOR THE SCOTTISH ENGINEER IN 2022 OVER A DISPUTED $5,000 BANK 228 00:25:55,854 --> 00:26:02,060 LOAN. HE SPENT TWO MONTHS IN AN IRAQI PRISON. ALL OF THESE RED NOTICES WERE 229 00:26:02,127 --> 00:26:09,200 EVENTUALLY RESCINDED BUT NOT BEFORE LIVES WERE UPENDED. >> I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CHARACTERIZE THE PEOPLE WHO GET 230 00:26:09,267 --> 00:26:17,776 CAUGHT UP IN THIS. ARE THEY COLLATERAL DAMAGE? >> NO, I WOULD NEVER CALL THAT COLLATERAL DAMAGE. 231 00:26:17,842 --> 00:26:23,548 AND WE ARE INVESTING ALL WE CAN TO ENSURE THAT EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION IN OUR DATABASES ARE COMPLIANT WITH OUR RULES AND 232 00:26:23,615 --> 00:26:35,593 REGULATIONS. >> BUT YOU KNOW AND WE HAVE HEARD OF INCIDENTS WHERE PEOPLE ARE LANGUISHING IN JAIL BECAUSE 233 00:26:35,660 --> 00:26:40,765 OF ERRONEOUS INFORMATION THAT WAS SENT OUT BY INTERPOL. >> I'M NOT SAYING THAT THE SYSTEM IS PERFECT. 234 00:26:40,832 --> 00:26:47,272 WE SEE WRONG DECISIONS ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL AND WE HAVE SEEN WRONG DECISIONS ALSO ON INTERPOL. 235 00:26:47,339 --> 00:26:57,082 THAT IS CORRECT A SMALL NUMBER OF CASES. >> Reporter: INTERPOL ADMITS IN 2022, 304 OF NEARLY 24,000 236 00:26:57,148 --> 00:27:05,223 WANTED PERSON ALERTS WERE FOUND DENIED OR DELETED. THE ORGANIZATION DECLINED TO SHARE WHICH COUNTRIES WERE THE 237 00:27:05,290 --> 00:27:14,432 WORST OFFENDERS. >> THERE ARE WELL-DOCUMENTED CASES AGAINST RUSSIA, CHINA, TURKEY, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 238 00:27:14,499 --> 00:27:21,306 FOR REPEATEDLY ABUSING THE INTERPOL NOTICES. WHY NOT NAME AND SHAME THESE COUNTRIES? 239 00:27:21,373 --> 00:27:26,578 >> BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THIS IS NOT IN THE INTEREST OF INTERNATIONAL POLICE COOPERATION. 240 00:27:26,644 --> 00:27:30,915 YOU NEED TO HAVE A PLATFORM WHERE INFORMATION IS BEING COLLECTED FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD, WHERE CRIMINAL 241 00:27:30,982 --> 00:27:38,423 GROUPS ARE OPERATING. WE WANT TO PROVIDE A CHANNEL EVEN BETWEEN STATES THAT HAVE DIPLOMATIC DIFFICULTIES OR EVEN 242 00:27:38,490 --> 00:27:43,928 CONFLICT. OUR DECISION IS NOT TO POLICE A MEMBER COUNTRY IN TERMS OF THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA. 243 00:27:43,995 --> 00:27:50,001 THAT'S NOT OUR ROLE AS A TECHNICAL POLICE ORGANIZATION. >> THAT'S NOT JUSTICE. THAT'S NOT JUSTICE. 244 00:27:50,068 --> 00:27:58,443 WE GET IT RIGHT MOST OF THE TIME. >> BRITISH BARRISTERS RHYS DAVIES AND BEN KEITH SAY IF 245 00:27:58,510 --> 00:28:07,986 INTERPOL IS TO SURVIVE ANOTHER 100 YEAR, IT MUST POLICE ITSELF. >> WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERPOL ARE 246 00:28:08,053 --> 00:28:14,225 CONCERNED ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE ALLEGEDLY CRIMINALS. IT FEELS LIKE THAT'S THE PRICE THEY'RE PREPARED TO PAY FOR 247 00:28:14,292 --> 00:28:30,775 CATCHING THE BAD GUYS. AND WE THINK THE PRICE PAID IS FAR TOO >>> AND, LO, BEFORE THE FLOOD, 248 00:28:30,842 --> 00:28:37,582 THE LORD SAID TO NOAH, MAKE YOURSELF AN ARK. BRING OUT EVERY LIVING CREATURE. THAT WAS THE OLD TESTAMENT. 249 00:28:37,649 --> 00:28:44,722 BUT WHAT HAPPENS TODAY WHEN DISASTER THREATENS ANIMALS? A POWERFUL FORCE, A ZOO, A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT, EVEN THE 250 00:28:44,789 --> 00:28:57,135 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFTEN CALLS FROM ON HIGH AND ENLISTS THE SERVICES OF ONE MAN, PAT CRAIG, FOUNDER OF THE WILD 251 00:28:57,202 --> 00:29:01,973 ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN COLORADO, WHO'S ORCHESTRATED HIGH STAKES RESCUES AROUND THE WORLD. LAST SPRING WE ACCOMPANIED THIS 252 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:08,480 MODERN DAY NOAH TO HIS ZOO IN PUERTO RICO FOR HIS MOST AMBITIOUS MISSION YET. >> Reporter: THESE LIONS WERE 253 00:29:08,546 --> 00:29:21,960 ONCE LITERALLY THE PRIDE OF PUERTO RICO. HOUSED AT THE DR. JUAN A. RIVERO ZOO ON THE ISLAND OF MAYAGUEZ, 254 00:29:22,026 --> 00:29:31,569 THE ONLY ZOO ON THE ISLAND. BUT AFTER YEARS OF NEGLECT, THIS GREETED PAT CRAIG AND HIS WIFE, MONICA, WHEN THEY ARRIVED FROM 255 00:29:31,636 --> 00:29:34,706 COLORADO. >> WHAT WAS YOUR IMPRESSION WHEN YOU GOT TO THE ZOO FOR THE FIRST TIME? 256 00:29:34,772 --> 00:29:40,745 >> THE ANIMALS WERE VERY, VERY SAD LOOKING AND SOME OF THEM WERE VERY, VERY SICK. I FELT PHYSICALLY AND 257 00:29:40,812 --> 00:29:45,917 EMOTIONALLY OVERWHELMED. >> EVEN WHILE WE WERE THERE, ANIMALS DIED ALMOST ON A WEEKLY BASIS. 258 00:29:45,984 --> 00:29:50,688 >> CORRECT. >> THAT FELT EVEN WORSE BECAUSE WE'RE PRESENT AND YET WE WERE THERE TOO LATE. 259 00:29:50,755 --> 00:29:58,096 >> Reporter: OVER A COURSE OF A DECADE THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE CITED THE ZOO TWO DOZEN TIMES FOR SUBSTANDARD 260 00:29:58,163 --> 00:30:04,702 CONDITIONS AND ANIMAL MISTREATMENT. AFTER HURRICANES IRMA AND MARIA RAVAGED THE ISLAND, THE ZOO 261 00:30:04,769 --> 00:30:14,179 CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC IN 2018. FOR THE MORE THAN 300 WINGED, SCALED, AND FOUR-LEGGED RESIDENTS STILL CAPTIVE, THE 262 00:30:14,245 --> 00:30:21,085 SITUATION TURNED FROM BAD TO DOWN RIGHT DESPERATE. >> WE SAW A ZEBRA THAT HAD A HORRIBLE WOUND ON HER LEG AND 263 00:30:21,152 --> 00:30:27,058 HER TAIL, AND SHE COULDN'T STAND UP. WE SAW A PIG WHO HAD A SKIN CONDITION. 264 00:30:27,125 --> 00:30:33,097 HER SKIN WAS JUST FALLING APART. >> Reporter: A MOUNTAIN LION'S UNTREATED CANCER SPREAD ALL OVER ITS BODY. 265 00:30:33,164 --> 00:30:39,504 >> SEEING THE MOUNTAIN LION SUFFERING THE WAY HE WAS, THAT BROKE MY HEART. AND NOT BEING ABLE TO -- SORRY. 266 00:30:39,571 --> 00:30:48,479 >> HELP THEM. IT WAS JUST SO EVIDENT THAT THIS FACILITY WAS WAY BEYOND REPAIR. >> Reporter: THE U.S. DEPARTMENT 267 00:30:48,546 --> 00:30:56,287 OF JUSTICE, WHICH ENFORCES FEDERAL ANIMAL WELFARE LAWS IN THE STATES AND PUERTO RICO AGREED AND IN FEBRUARY STAGED AN 268 00:30:56,354 --> 00:31:03,628 EXTRAORDINARY INTERVENTION, SENDING A BATTALION OF AGENTS TO THE ZOO TO EVACUATE EVERY SINGLE SPECIES TO PERMANENT HOMES ON 269 00:31:03,695 --> 00:31:13,238 THE MAINLAND. TO LEAVE THIS MISSION TO CAPTAIN THIS ARK, AS IT WERE, THE DOJ TAPPED WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY 270 00:31:13,304 --> 00:31:19,077 FOUNDER, PAT CRAIG. WE WERE THERE IN APRIL TO WITNESS THE OPERATION. EQUAL PARTS MILITARY-STYLE 271 00:31:19,143 --> 00:31:26,317 LOGISTICS AND BATTLEFIELD EXTRACTION. AMONG THE TARGETS, SEVEN LIONS SWELTERED IN A CONCRETE BUNKER. 272 00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:31,422 >> AND THEY NEVER HOOKED UP THE POWER AFTER THE HURRICANE. THEY NEVER HOOKED UP THE POWER TO THE ZOO. 273 00:31:31,489 --> 00:31:36,427 >> NEVER. >> WAIT, THERE'S A ZOO THAT'S FUNCTIONING WITH ANIMALS THERE AND THERE'S NO POWER. 274 00:31:36,494 --> 00:31:42,000 >> THERE'S NO ELECTRICITY. >> THERE'S NO POWER. IF YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURES FROM THE INSIDE OF THE BUILDING, IT'S 275 00:31:42,066 --> 00:31:53,578 LIKE JAIL CELLS, ALL NIN A ROW. >> Reporter: WHEN IT CAME TIME TO COAX THE CATS OUT OF THEIR CAGE, CRAIG ENTERED THE LION'S 276 00:31:53,645 --> 00:31:56,914 DEN. >> WHAT HAPPENED? >> THEY WERE DEFENSIVE BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHO WE ARE AND 277 00:31:56,981 --> 00:32:03,121 WHAT WE'RE DOING AND WHY. WE SHOW UP AND WE'RE LIKE, BELIEVE ME, YOU'VE GOT TO TRUST WE'RE TRYING TO HELP YOU HERE. 278 00:32:03,187 --> 00:32:09,594 >> Reporter: THE SWEET TALKING DIDN'T WORK. SO, THEY DEPLOYED PLAN B, SEDATION. 279 00:32:09,661 --> 00:32:17,435 HARD TO WATCH, BUT ACCEPTED PRACTICE WHEN E RESCUING UNCOOPERATIVE CARNIVORES. OVER THE COURSE OF FIVE MONTHS, 280 00:32:17,502 --> 00:32:30,748 CRAIG AND HIS TEAM OF 20 USED PATIENCE, PRODDING, PURSUIT, AND GRAPE JELLY TO LURE EACH ANIMAL INTO ITS CUSTOM-BUILT CRATE. 281 00:32:30,815 --> 00:32:42,393 A CAMEL, A KANGAROO, A RHINOCEROS, THESE STUBBORN HIPPOS. MONICA CRAIG, A NATIVE SPANISH 282 00:32:42,460 --> 00:32:48,066 SPEAKER, HAD HOPED TO COORDINATE WITH THE LOCAL STAFF. BUT THE TEAM FROM COLORADO MOSTLY HAD TO GO IT ALONE. 283 00:32:48,132 --> 00:32:53,638 SHE SAID THE ZOO KEEPERS IN PUERTO RICO OFTEN REFUSED TO HELP. >> WE TRIED MANY, MANY DAYS TO 284 00:32:53,705 --> 00:32:58,576 COMMUNICATE WITH THEM AND TRY TO TELL THEM, HEY, WE'RE NOT BAD PEOPLE. WE'RE JUST TRYING TO DO WHAT 285 00:32:58,643 --> 00:33:03,915 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING FOR THESE ANIMALS AND GIVE THEM A BETTER HOME. >> WHAT WAS THEIR RESPONSE TO 286 00:33:03,981 --> 00:33:08,219 THAT? >> THEY WERE UPSET. THEY WERE LIKE, NO, I DON'T THINK -- I DON'T THINK THAT'S 287 00:33:08,286 --> 00:33:14,892 RIGHT. THE ANIMALS BELONG HERE. >> Reporter: IT WAS A SENTIMENT SHARED BY MANY IN THE COMMUNITY. 288 00:33:14,959 --> 00:33:26,037 AND AT TIMES, RESISTANCE CURLED INTO OUTRIGHT SABOTAGE. THE RESCUE TEAM HAD NEARLY RECTANGLED MUNDI, ONCE A STAR 289 00:33:26,104 --> 00:33:34,112 ATTRACTION, INTO HER TRANSPORT CRATE WHEN SUDDENLY -- >> OUT OF NOWHERE, THIS ELEPHANT TEARS OUT, STARS RUNNING AROUND. 290 00:33:34,178 --> 00:33:43,755 >> WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED? >> I THINK SOMEBODY SHOT HER WITH A BB GUN JUST TO MAKE HER HATE THAT CRATE. 291 00:33:43,821 --> 00:33:48,526 >> Reporter: WE REACHED OUT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES, WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ZOO. 292 00:33:48,593 --> 00:33:54,532 IN A STATEMENT, IT SAID THE ANIMALS WERE PROVIDED WITH COMPREHENSIVE CARE AND DENIED THERE WAS ANY NEGLECT, BLAMING 293 00:33:54,599 --> 00:34:02,373 PROBLEMS AT THE ZOO ON HURRICANE DAMAGE, LIMITED RESOURCES, AND AGING ANIMALS. ONCE THE TRANSPORT WAS FINALLY 294 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:09,847 READY, A POLICE ESCORT TO THE AIRPORT. THEN THE ANIMALS WERE LOADED, ONE BY ONE, ONTO CHARTER FLIGHTS 295 00:34:09,914 --> 00:34:18,723 BOUND FOR NEW HOMES CRAIG HAD ARRANGED AT SANCTUARIES ACROSS THE U.S. HOW DO YOU FERRY TO SAFETY AN 296 00:34:18,790 --> 00:34:26,397 8,000 POUND ELEPHANT LIKE MUNDI? ON A 747 CARGO JET, OF COURSE. DEPARTURE BROUGHT A SIGH OF RELIEF. 297 00:34:26,464 --> 00:34:32,336 >> WHEN SHE TOOK OFF, I CRIED BECAUSE I SAID, THANK YOU, GOD. SHE'S IN. IT'S OVER. 298 00:34:32,403 --> 00:34:37,275 SHE'S OUT OF HERE. THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT ANYMORE. >> Reporter: PAT AND MONICA 299 00:34:37,341 --> 00:34:50,087 CRAIG TOOK AS MANY OF THE RESCUES AS THEY COULD BACK TO THEIR 1,200-ACRE FACILITY. THE VAST MENAGERIE ROAMS 300 00:34:50,154 --> 00:34:56,394 COLORADO. EACH OF THE ANIMALS HERE CAME WITH A SAD BACK STORY, THEIR OWN TALES OF WOE, AS IT WERE. 301 00:34:56,461 --> 00:35:05,169 TIGERS KEPT IN GARAGES AS PETS, LIONS SAVED FROM A ZOO IN WAR-TORN UKRAINE, BEARS ABUSED AT A KOREAN MEDICAL FACILITY. 302 00:35:05,236 --> 00:35:13,878 NOW 64, CRAIG GOT THE IDEA FOR THE PLACE AS A TEENAGER IN THE 1970s, WHEN A FRIEND WHO WORKED AT A ZOO GAVE HIM A TOUR BEHIND 303 00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:18,649 THE SCENES. >> THERE WERE ALL THESE ANIMALS, LIONS AND TIGERS, THAT WERE IN SMALL CAGES. 304 00:35:18,716 --> 00:35:22,820 HE SAID, THESE WILL BE EUTHANIZED. I THOUGHT, THIS IS CRAZY. THESE ARE HEALTHY. 305 00:35:22,887 --> 00:35:28,526 THEY'RE NOT OLD. THEY'RE NOT SICK. >> Reporter: CRAIG DECIDED RIGHT THEN AND THERE TO OPEN HIS OWN 306 00:35:28,593 --> 00:35:36,267 SANCTUARY ON HIS PARENTS' SMALL COLORADO FARM. WITH FEW REGULATIONS TO GUIDE HIM, HE BUILT THE ANIMAL 307 00:35:36,334 --> 00:35:41,839 ENCLOSURES HIMSELF AND SCOURED BIOLOGY BOOKS FOR POINTERS. >> DID YOU HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH LIONS AND TIGERS? 308 00:35:41,906 --> 00:35:46,777 >> NONE. >> A DEGREE IN ZOOLOGY? >> I WAS JUST STARTING COLLEGE BACK THEN. 309 00:35:46,844 --> 00:35:52,149 IT WAS GOING TO BE A BUSINESS DEGREE. >> Reporter: HE QUICKLY LEARNED THAT LIONS AND TIGERS ARE NO 310 00:35:52,216 --> 00:35:55,987 HOUSE CATS. >> IN THE EARLY YEARS, I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL MORE TIMES THAN YOU CAN COUNT. 311 00:35:56,053 --> 00:36:02,059 IT WAS LIKE, OKAY, DON'T DO THAT AGAIN. ALL THOSE YEARS OF MAKING MISTAKES AND NOT GETTING KILLED. 312 00:36:02,126 --> 00:36:08,366 >> WHAT DOES A MISTAKE LOOK LIKE? >> PRETTY BAD. I'VE HAD MY LEFT ARM ALMOST TORN 313 00:36:08,432 --> 00:36:13,671 OFF, BIT THROUGH THE CHEST AND COLLAPSED LUNGS. >> Reporter: THE ANIMALS, CRAIG CAN HANDLE. 314 00:36:13,738 --> 00:36:19,410 BUT ON HIS MISSIONS TO HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS AROUND THE WORLD, IT'S THE PEOPLE HE NEEDS HELP MANAGING. 315 00:36:19,477 --> 00:36:26,717 HEAVILY ARMED FEDERAL MARSHALS ACCOMPANY CRAIG WHEN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DISPATCHED HIM TO RETRIEVE MALL TREATED BIG 316 00:36:26,784 --> 00:36:34,325 CATS WHO HAD BEEN KEPT BY THE KNOW TASK FORCE TIGER KING, JOE EXOTIC, THE UNLIKELY NETFLIX SENSATION AND HIS ASSOCIATES. 317 00:36:34,392 --> 00:36:40,865 THESE TWO WERE AMONG THE 141 ANIMALS CRAIG LIBERATED AND BROUGHT BACK HERE. >> WHAT KIND OF CONDITION WAS 318 00:36:40,932 --> 00:36:47,939 JOE EXOTIC KEEPING THESE GUYS IN IN OKLAHOMA? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, IT WAS JUST ALL THESE REALLY SMALL CAGES 319 00:36:48,005 --> 00:36:54,946 THAT WERE JUST LINE AFTER LINE BECAUSE IT WAS A GIGANTIC BREEDING OPERATION PRIMARILY. >> Reporter: THE RESCUE MISSIONS 320 00:36:55,012 --> 00:37:03,154 AND THE SANCTUARY OPERATE ON AN ANNUAL BUDGET OF $34 MILLION. FUNDING COMES MOSTLY FROM PRIVATE DONATIONS. 321 00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:09,961 WHEN ANIMALS ARRIVE HERE, THIS IS OFTEN THEIR FIRST STOP, DESIGNED TO MIMIC THE CONDITIONS THEY CAME FROM. 322 00:37:10,027 --> 00:37:17,034 HERE, THEY'RE EVALUATED AND GIVEN A TREATMENT PLAN, WHETHER IT'S MEDICATION OR EMERGENCY SURGERY. 323 00:37:17,101 --> 00:37:25,943 CRAIG AND STAFF VETERINARIAN DR. MIKAELA VETTERS INTRODUCED US TO CHAD AND MALAWI, RESCUED FROM PUERTO RICO. 324 00:37:26,010 --> 00:37:32,316 >> HOW CONFIDENT DO WE FEEL ABOUT OUR LOCKS HERE? >> CONFIDENT. >> THIS GUY IS READY TO HANG OUT 325 00:37:32,383 --> 00:37:41,525 WITH US. >> THEY SUFFER FROM PERMANENT NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE, LIKELY CAUSED BY MALNUTRITION. 326 00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:48,032 >> SHE DOESN'T HAVE CONTROL OVER IT. >> HEAD TILTING AT AN ANGLE. >> WE'VE HAD LITERALLY HUNDREDS 327 00:37:48,099 --> 00:37:56,641 OF LIONS HAVE COME THROUGH. >> YOU'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE. >> THE SANCTUARY DEVISES A SPECIAL DIET FOR EACH ANIMAL, 328 00:37:56,707 --> 00:38:05,683 WHICH REQUIRES 100,000 POUNDS OF FOOD EACH WEEK, DONATED BY NEARBY WALMARTS, OCCASIONALLY CUPCAKES INCLUDED. 329 00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:14,625 WHEN WE MET HIM, MIKEY THE BARE WAS MIDWAY THROUGH HIS REHAB. >> RIGHT NOW HE'S IN LOCKOUT SO WE CAN MEDICALLY MANAGE HIM. 330 00:38:14,692 --> 00:38:21,932 >> WHAT DID YOU SEE THE FIRST TIME YOU SAW HIM? >> HE WAS IN A GREAT DEAL OF PAIN, VERY GINGERLY MOVING. 331 00:38:21,999 --> 00:38:30,408 WE ASSUME HE'S GOT A GREAT DEAL OF ARTHRITIS. NOW HE'S GETTING AROUND ALMOST LIKE A YOUNG BEAR. 332 00:38:30,474 --> 00:38:38,849 >> NURSING ANIMALS BACK TO PHYSICAL HEALTH IS ONE THING. MINISTERING TO THEIR EMOTIONAL WOUNDS IS A BIGGER CHALLENGE. 333 00:38:38,916 --> 00:38:45,356 MANY ANIMALS ARRIVE WITH WHAT AMOUNTS TO SEVERE PTSD, AND THEY MUST BE TAUGHT TO TRUST THE HUMANS CARING FOR THEM. 334 00:38:45,423 --> 00:38:52,163 >> THEY'RE ALREADY MAD AT PEOPLE ANYWAY BECAUSE OF WHATEVER PEOPLE HAD DONE. I HAD ONE TIGER, ANY TIME YOU 335 00:38:52,229 --> 00:38:57,301 CAME NEAR, HE WOULD WANT TO HIT THE FENCE AND KILL YOU. >> WHAT'S THE TIMETABLE FOR EASING THE TRAUMA? 336 00:38:57,368 --> 00:39:03,007 >> SOME WERE BEATEN. SOME WERE STARVED. SOME WERE MENTALLY TORMENTED TO A DEGREE. 337 00:39:03,074 --> 00:39:08,312 SO, EVERY CASE IS DIFFERENT. SO, SOME OF THEM WILL DO IT IN A MATTER OF DAYS. SOME WILL BE A FEW WEEKS. 338 00:39:08,379 --> 00:39:16,187 >> DOESN'T THAT STORY IMPLY HOWEVER TRAUMATIC THIS MAY HAVE BEEN, IT'S NOT IRREVERSIBLE? >> IT'S NOT IRREVERSIBLE. 339 00:39:16,253 --> 00:39:22,059 >> THE GOAL OF ALL THIS REHAB IS TO GET THESE WILD ANIMALS TO ACT THE PART. REMEMBER MUNDI? 340 00:39:22,126 --> 00:39:29,333 AT THE ZOO, SHE HAD ZERO CONTACT WITH OTHER ELEPHANTS FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS. WE ACCOMPANIED CRAIG ON A VISIT 341 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:38,375 TO A REFUGE IN GEORGIA WHERE HE PLACED MUNDI UNDER THE CARE OF CONSERVATIONIST CAROL BUCKLEY. THIS MARKED THE FIRST TIME CRAIG 342 00:39:38,442 --> 00:39:45,149 AND THE ELEPHANT HAD SEEN EACH OTHER SINCE PUERTO RICO. >> WHAT DO YOU NOTICE? >> FIRST THING SHE JUST LOOKS SO 343 00:39:45,216 --> 00:39:49,320 MUCH HEALTHIER. HER DEMEANOR IS SO MUCH CALMER AND NICER. EVERY DAY WHEN I WOULD SEE HER 344 00:39:49,386 --> 00:39:54,358 IN THE ZOO, GOD, IT WOULD JUST HURT. NOW TO SEE THIS IS JUST AMAZING. JUST TRULY AMAZING. 345 00:39:54,425 --> 00:40:02,366 >> HEY, PRETTY LADY. >> Reporter: BUCKLEY PROVIDES THE CARE AND FEEDING BUT HAPPILY ADMITS MUNDI'S REAL MENTORS ARE 346 00:40:02,433 --> 00:40:08,706 THE OTHER ANIMALS HERE. >> YOU'RE JUST THE INN KEEPER. YOU'RE JUST THE CHEF. >> I JUST OPEN AND CLOSE DOORS 347 00:40:08,773 --> 00:40:14,812 AND MAKE SURE THE WATERS ARE RUNNING. AND THE OTHER ELEPHANT KNOWS WHAT THEY NEED TO LEARN, AND 348 00:40:14,879 --> 00:40:19,216 THEY'RE INSTRUCTING THEM. IT IS FANTASTIC. IT IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS WHAT HAPPENS IN THE WILD. 349 00:40:19,283 --> 00:40:24,955 >> Reporter: THAT'S THE SAME PRINCIPLE CRAIG EMPLOYS AT HIS SANCTUARY. AND AFTER TWO MONTHS OF REHAB, 350 00:40:25,022 --> 00:40:30,995 THE LIONS FROM PUERTO RICO WERE READY TO ENTER THEIR PERMANENT HABITAT. >> ALL RIGHT. 351 00:40:31,061 --> 00:40:38,169 ROBERT'S GOING TO OPEN THE DOOR. >> Reporter: WE WERE ON HAND FOR THE RELEASE NO. ONE QUITE KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT, NOT LEAST THE 352 00:40:38,235 --> 00:40:46,443 LIONS. >> YOU CAN GO, YEAH. >> Reporter: THE FIRST RUZ WAS RETICENT, BUT ONE BY ONE -- 353 00:40:46,510 --> 00:40:51,882 >> THIS MUST BE LITERALLY LIFE CHANGING. >> Reporter: -- THEY STARTED TO VENTURE OUT, ENCLOSED FOR THEIR 354 00:40:51,949 --> 00:40:58,622 SAFETY AND OURS, BUT OTHERWISE IN A VAST OCEAN OF GREEN. >> THESE GUYS HAVE BEEN IN CAPTIVITY THEIR WHOLE LIVES. 355 00:40:58,689 --> 00:41:06,263 THIS IS A FIRST TIME. >> THIS WILL BE THE FIRST TIME THEY'LL BE ABLE TO RUN AND LIVE IN A SPACE LIKE THIS, HAVE DEEP 356 00:41:06,330 --> 00:41:10,534 GRASS. >> MAKES U FEEL GOOD. >> ABSOLUTELY. THIS IS WHY WE DO THIS? 357 00:41:10,601 --> 00:41:17,541 >> THERE WERE A FEW SCUFFLES, BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE HOPED FOR, LIONS ACTING LIKE, WELL, LIONS. 358 00:41:17,608 --> 00:41:22,646 THE ANIMALS COME TO THE SANCTUARY FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. BUT IN THIS UNLIKELY SETTING, 359 00:41:22,713 --> 00:41:31,488 HERE SILL WETED BY THE ROCKIES IN EASTERN COLORADO, THEY FIND MORE THAN JUST SANCTUARY. THEY FINALLY FIND A HOME. 360 00:41:34,792 --> 00:41:50,875 >>> A LOOK AT LIFE AFTER "TIGER KING." >> YOU HAVE TO LEARN A LOT OF IT, WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A 361 00:41:50,941 --> 00:41:58,249 >>> THE LAST MINUTE OF "60 MINUTES" IS SPONSORED BY UNITED HEALTH CARE, THERE FOR WHAT MATTERS. 362 00:41:58,315 --> 00:42:09,827 >>> NEXT SUNDAY ON "60 MINUTES," AS AMERICA GEARS UP FOR THE SUPER BOWL ON FEBRUARY 11th, JJON 363 00:42:09,894 --> 00:42:18,469 WERTHEIM INVESTIGATES ONLINE SPORTS BETTING. >> PEOPLE MIGHT THINK I'M THE TYPICAL GAMBLING ADDICT, MIDDLE 364 00:42:18,535 --> 00:42:25,876 AGED GUY IN A WINDBREAKER SPEND Z HIS RETIREMENT SAVINGS. >> IT'S MORE PROMINENT IN THE YOUNGER GENERATION THAN EVER. 365 00:42:25,943 --> 00:42:34,418 THE SPORTS BOOKS AND THE COMMERCIALS AND THE LEAGUES THEMSELVES ARE MAKING IT LOOK SO COOL TO GAMBLE AND RISK YOUR 366 00:42:34,485 --> 00:42:41,425 MONEY. >> AND WHEN 22 YEAR OLDS GO UP AGAINST DATA ORGANIZATIONS ARMED WITH DATA BANKS, ARTIFICIAL 367 00:42:41,492 --> 00:42:43,527 INTELLIGENCE, AND ENGINEERING, THE RESULT IS OFTEN A MISMATCH.