01/28/2024: Agency in Crisis, Interpol, Modern Ark
60 Minutes
CBS News
4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Cecilia Vega interviews the woman charged with reforming the Federal Bureau of Prisons, director Colette S. Peters, as her agency is facing a major staffing crisis, aging, and deteriorating prison infrastructure and an alarming pattern of abuse that has persisted for years. Interpol, responsible for coordinating worldwide police cooperation, has come under some fire. Some members are accused of abusing its red notice system. Bill Whitaker speaks with Interpol's Secretary General Jürgen Stock. Pat Craig, founder of The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado, has emerged as the go-to guy for orchestrating high-stakes animal rescues around the world. Jon Wertheim reports on Craig’s most ambitious mission yet.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to 60 Minutes ad free right now. |
| 0:04.6 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. People drive past prisons every day. |
| 0:15.0 | They're terrified of them. |
| 0:20.0 | Or they don't think about them at all. |
| 0:22.0 | Right? It's kind of like this forgotten zone. |
| 0:24.0 | I don't want people to forget about this place. |
| 0:27.0 | The United States Federal Prison System has |
| 0:30.0 | 157,000 inmates in its custody and locks up some of the most dangerous and high-profile |
| 0:35.8 | criminals in the world. |
| 0:37.7 | Tonight, we will take you inside the Federal Bureau of Prisons, an agency in crisis. |
| 0:45.0 | On the banks of the Rhone River by a tranquil city park sits the highly secure global |
| 0:52.0 | headquarters of Interpol. |
| 0:54.0 | 196 countries are members of Interpol |
| 0:57.3 | and share important intelligence about worldwide criminal activity. |
| 1:01.9 | But there are questions about why some of those countries are still |
| 1:06.1 | part of its alliance. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm just trying to understand how a country that is being investigated for mass murder can be a member in good standing with |
| 1:16.5 | Interpol. |
| 1:20.5 | 60 Minutes has discovered tigers roaming in the wilds of Colorado, and elephants in Georgia? |
| 1:28.0 | How or why do these animals end up here? |
| 1:32.0 | Meet the modern day Noah, who looks out for nature's |
| 1:35.7 | greatest beasts during their greatest times of need. |
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