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>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. welcome to the jungle. >> an inmate makes himself at home in very familiar surroundings. >> i have been in jail 12 times. >> that doesn't keep him off the jail's radar. >> why they would think me, i really don't know. >> accused of possessing a huge
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child porn collection another inmate attempts to salvage his relationship with his daughter and children. >> when am i going to get pictures of the kids. >> approximately 10:00 the inmate urinated outside of his cell door. >> and trying to continue on a mission. >> they're going to transfer me out of here or take me on a body bag. >> inmate gomes do you want to comply? >> there is a certain anonymity among people in big cities, but boston is a city of traditionally tight-knit neighborhoods where it seems everyone knows your name. even behind the walls of the primary detention facility, the suffolk county jail. >> i grew up in south central in
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boston. within seven years of this job i knew people from childhood, from high school, just from the neighborhood itself. >> inmates, too, often find themselves, too, among friends and relatives. >> we're brothers, that's right. >> though not all inmates are housed in the same facility. those who have only been charged with the crime and are awaiting trial are held at the nashua street jail until the resolution of their case. those who are convicted and receive sentences of two and a half years or less will usually serve their time four miles away at the house of correction. >> top of the world. 15 minutes. i told you i was going to be knocking. >> it's a place sal giuliano has become very familiar with over the years. >> hungry? >> my mother would slap me if she saw me eating this. >> keep a small circle. >> my buddy shayne, mini me.
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>> there's the boys. the jungle, baby. >> south boston in the house over here. >> there's a character for you. >> what's up? >> these guys i grew up with them, from the same hometown. >> what's up, guys? hometown table? >> i don't want to make more friends. i have 13 commitments, i've been in this jail 12 times. my last court date i had 6 -- 76 convictions. i'm doing the second half of a two-year sentence, i finished a year in may, went home on probation, placed me on a bracelet house arrest. it didn't fit too good. i ended up cutting it off, the first of my own. i assisted a few friends before. >> giuliano's latest conviction was for breaking and entering. >> that's pretty much my
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history, all of my crimes are drug related. i don't commit crimes for violent natures. it's drugs and if i can find ways to support my habit without hurting anyone, i'll take a shot at it. >> he says even his childhood memories are tied to the drug trade. >> my father was an alleged cocaine dealer. i remember it before i was 10 years old bringing to school show and tell a homemade drug thing, razors, fake lines, a cut up pepsi bottle. give these to phil. >> five years ago, giuliano was convicted of conspiracy to violate drug laws. >> welcome to the jungle. >> served a three-year sentence in prison. >> for a charge i picked up here in this unit, cell 21, they alleged that i was smuggling drugs into the jail for profit.
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>> while he wouldn't discuss the specifics of the case, he says that if drugs did make it into the jail, there would be a ready market. >> hold it down, kid. something that goes for $10 in the street goes for $100, a pack of cigarettes $100 very profitable. >> these days, he says he has a very different set of concerns. how are you? >> just do your job. all right? >> you got it. >> a few years ago they caught me clean. >> sal never would have been cleaning. he would have been in segregation a few years ago. >> it came from the toilet. >> he says changes at the jail as well as a lack of loyalty among most inmates have forced him to try and do his time without problems. >> there's no such thing as just keeping quiet. honest to god, to not face any charges. i don't put myself in a situation where you have to worry about me telling or i got
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to worry about someone else telling on me. i just avoid it all completely. >> while he may have decided the best way to do time is to lay low, up in the disciplinary segregation unit, another inmate has chosen a different route. >> it's approximately 12:15 p.m., outside the 131 segregation unit, inmate ricardo gomes, 100653 being disruptive, refusing all orders from the security staff to cease his behavior. >> the sheriff's emergency response team or c.e.r.t. has been called to the floor to deal with an inmate causing problems since early morning. procedure requires they videotape the interaction. >> approximately 10:00 to 10:30 inmate gomes urinated out of his cell door. he was spoken to not to do that again or he would receive placement in the restraining chair. at approximately 12:00 again he
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urinated out of his cell door once again. we're going to put him in the restraint chair due to behavior. inmate gomes if you don't comply with me you're going to be sprayed with chemical agent and placed in a restraint chair. >> for what? >> i'm going to give your final order to place your hands through the trap. if you don't comply you will be extracted from the cell. turn around and put your hands through the trap. >> why are you doing this to me. >> turn around put your hands through the trap. >> i will do everything you tell me to do if you answer one thing. >> i'm not going to answer everything. i'm giving you an order. turn around and put your hands through. turn around, put your hands behind your back. and put your hands through the trap or you're going to be extracted from your cell. open 2. >> the problem inmate is 50-year-old ricardo gomes, currently serving two consecutive two and a half year sentences for assault with a dangerous weapon.
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>> he is a major behavioral issue, if he doesn't get his way or things don't happen fast enough he tends to get riled up quickly and tough to get to him to calm down. everything is a problem for him. he doesn't do anything wrong, we do everything wrong and there's some major injustice. >> i'm going to advise you to remain silent. >> no freedom of speech in jail? what happened to my miranda rights, my amendment rights? >> when inmates continually act out the jail can secure them in a restraint chair for up to four hours as deputies place gomes in the chair they fasten a mask around his face to prevent him from spitting. he is then secured at the waist, torso and ankles. >> you want to videotape of the urination of inmate gomes out of his cell door, the saliva on his window. >> wait, when the [ bleep ] comes out of there. >> he stated wait until the [ bleep ] comes out of there, so he still continues to make
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threats and [ bleep ] act up and violate the rules of the department. >> lieutenant medeiros has a problem with me. >> you tell him. >> he's a [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] >> with gomes safely restrained, deputies conduct a search of his cell, checking for weapons or other contraband. it isn't long before they find cause for concern. >> we discovered inmate gomes tied multiple shoelaces around his shower head. he's done this in the past to pull and activate sprinkler heads and attempted to harm himself by tying a shoe lace around his neck. >> deputies cut down the shoe laces and confiscate them. in the past, gomes and other inmates have caused floods damaging shower or sprinkler heads. >> he'll tie the shoelace and yank the mechanism that allows the sprinkler to activate, causes a lot of damage within the facility and housing units.
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>> i'll take your blood pressure. >> jail regular liegs -- regulations require that while an inmate is restrained he receive a medical evaluation every 15 minutes. >> the general condition is stable, it's okay for him to remain in the chair. >> until his next checkup gomes is placed back into his cell. >> inmate was secured inside the restrained chair, medically evaluated with no treatment provided or necessary at this time and the camera is going to be turned off. >> they put me in this chair for one reason, no reason at all, just because they could. >> coming up, sal giuliano said his reputation has come back to haunt him. >> said they found drugs in the bathroom. i don't know what they're talking about. >> ricardo gomes cuts a deal. >> nobody in jail can say rick gomes ever broke his word. explo
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inside the disciplinary segregation unit of boston's suffolk county jail's house of collection, inmate ricardo gomes has been causing problems since early morning. >> okay so medeiros, approximately 2:15 p.m., outside the 131 segregation unit where inmate ricardo gomes was placed in the restraint chair after being disruptive. >> after urinating on the floor, threatening staff, gomes has been immobilized in a restraint chair. he's been there for almost two hours. >> i'm now going to go inside the housing unit, now i'm going to see if he's ready to comply with the rules of the facility. if he's willing to do so he'll be remove. are you willing to comply? >> yes, sir, i will. i'll go further. i'm tired of getting in this chair. >> okay. >> i'm tired of giving you a hard time. >> all right.
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>> i told mr. wolinski i'd stop this [ bleep ]. i'd give my word. >> okay. >> nobody in this jail can say rick gomes ever broke his word. >> okay, all right, that's fair enough. listen. all i'm going to tell you this. this isn't personal. you might think it is because you get angry. no one wants to do this, no one wanted to do this. we need you to comply with the rules and regulation. >> can i get a drink of water. >> we'll get you out of the chair first. then we'll see what we can do. is that fair? >> yeah. >> in addition to that. you understand that after being removed from the chair if you urinate out of your cell door, spit on the window, activate a sprinkler head, attempt to harm yourself -- >> i'm all done. >> -- you know where you're going to go. >> i'm all done. >> where are you going to go, back in the restraining chair. i need you to acknowledge that. >> yes, sir. >> inside here i only fight with the correctional officers. they call it their house. it should be our house. we sleep here 24/7.
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back in the old days, the inmates ran the jails. these new jails, it's their house. i disrespected their house. just by urinating on the floor and spitting on the glass window. i gave you my word, lieutenant. >> inmate gomes, no kicking your feet, you understand? yes or no, sir? >> yes, sir. >> okay. the inmate was removed from the restraint chair cooperatively, no treatment was provided and secure inside cell two. the camera is going to be turned off at this time. >> gomes's stay at the suffolk county jail began five months earlier after a nighttime altercation resulted in a conviction for assault with a dangerous weapon, the type of weapon which earned him his nickname, brick.
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>> i don't carry guns or knives. i carry half a brick. a brick that you make a wall out of. red brick. break it in half. put half in each pocket. all the cops know i carry them, station 4 especially, they know me, "how are you doing ricardo gomes, where is the rock?" i lift up the shirt and show them the brick. i say no it's not a rock, it's a brick. >> gomes says he uses his bricks to help others. like a vigilante. >> charles bronson is like my model. i love that guy. everybody has their own territory in the streets. i got from copley square to the top of lands downes street if i catch you breaking into people's cars you get bricked. if you steal somebody's bicycle, you get bricked. if you rob the kids or anybody i see you robbing any people you get bricked. the cops don't mind me because i
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stop a lot of the crime. >> but rather than a citizenship citation, gomes's latest brick assault resulted in two, two and a half year sentences. since they must be served consecutively he'll be in the house of correction for five years. he's intent serving his time at a different facility. despite his promise less than an hour earlier, he says he's willing to be a nuisance if it will help him get the transfer. >> i'm going to get out of here. they'll get sick of me popping their sprinklers. that's when you tie a string inside the hole in the sprinkler system and you pull it and water comes out and the alarms go off and you hear all over the prison, doot, doot, doot, the lights flashing and the water pours out. i've never seen so much water come out of a little sprinkler. you can fill up a cell in ten minutes, like an aquarium.
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water going out the door. that ain't a bad idea either. >> he tends to feel there's a major miscarriage of justice against him and wants to get transferred to another facility where he's not going to go because he creates so many problems and he's a behavioral issue so they're not going to take him as a transfer because of the way he acts. >> thank you, mr. gomes. >> i don't feel too good. >> i'm not doing five years here. they're going to transfer me out of here or take me out in a body back. >> coming up -- >> looking at a bunch of dirty pictures isn't the same as molesting a child. >> the alleged owner of one of the largest child porn collections ever confiscated settles in in the protective custody unit. strawberry banana!
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live in the house of correction. one of two facilities that comprise the jail system. they're housed on separate floors but that doesn't stop them from finding ways to communicate. >> it's 192, we get to talk to the guys downstairs. through the toilets. we clear them out and yell through the pipes. you could do it this way which people laugh at all the time. >> what are you doing? >> i'm plunging the toilet with my ass. >> because you can't talk to them unless it's clear so you got to get all the water out. >> yo! >> yeah, say hi. >> hi! this is the only way they'll do an interview. >> this is the only way they'll do an interview. >> life for most inmates at the suffolk county jail is anything but fun and games.
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inside the jail's nashua street facility is a housing unit for those inmates whose reputation has given them a reputation with other inmate which could result in grave consequences. >> special housing unit, what we call the shu is typically what most people refer to as pc, protective custody unit, the people who go to protective custody or special housing are those whose charges make them difficult to place in population, sexual crime charge, that individual is generally not welcome in any housing block. >> we see inmates often become targets in general population, where other inmates consider it a badge of honor to attack them. george shipps has been in this special housing unit for ten months now. >> i am here for downloading child pornography on my computer. that's my charge.
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>> shipps who pled not guilty is in protective custody not only because of the nature of his charges, but the notoriety. >> the day i walked into the jail there was a television on and i was on the tv, that's why i've been in the shu, special housing unit. protective custody. >> according to news reports of his arrest, shipps allegedly had thousands of files of child pornography on his computer. authorities called it one of the largest collections ever confiscated. >> i never dreamed i would be sitting here facing charges like this. i thought it was harmless, voyeurism. >> shipps admits to having child porn on his computer. he says he stumbled upon it on a
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file sharing network which allows users to view the contents of each other's computers. >> i would go through somebody's file and they would have 1,000 files and i would go and click on all these files, and then as as they downloaded i would view them. if they were my children, i would want to murder whoever it would have done this to them. so i knew that it was wrong, but looking at a bunch of dirty pictures isn't the same as molesting a child. >> shipps blames his battles with cocaine and alcoholism for several prior convictions including assault and battery on a police officer. he says child porn became another addiction. >> the addictive part was let's see what we can find that we're not supposed to look at. that was really the addiction part that came in, the thrill part. i'm not supposed to have this, so let me get it. if you said i can't have it, there must be some reason why so
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then i need to see it. >> but it wasn't just downloading child pornography that got shipps into trouble. he's also accused of distributing, something he blames on not understanding how file sharing works. >> once you have it on your computer, then somebody can come along and download it from your computer. >> if shipps is convicted, he could face up to ten years or more in prison. >> i didn't take any of these pictures or anything like that. i didn't assault anybody. if i had a camera and i was going around, taking pictures of children or molesting children or something like that, then absolutely. but i didn't do that. >> while shipps' case works its way through the courts, he will remain in protective custody. >> there's very limited activity. i'd rather be out there. i watch the traffic and just
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imagine if it's somebody i know or if it's friends or family going to visit other friends and family. >> coming up -- >> hi, how are you? >> george shipps receives a visit from his daughter. >> i love my grandchildren very much. i don't want to lose them. >> and ricardo gomes breaks a promise. >> he's loading up on urine so he can throw it at someone if he's not getting his way. >> you know who that was for.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. . at boston suffolk county jail, some inmates are better known to staff than others, mainly due to their many stays here. >> boston baby, b town boys, b town! >> sal giuliano is finishing up a year long sentence, is here for the 12th time. it's a chance to catch up with buddies from his neighborhood. >> east boston baby, east boston. 2128, stay golden. [ bleep ] how i grew up, loyalty was a big thing, friendship was a big thing. you don't find many people who understand the word friendship. friendship to me is, you know, i do for others, those that are my
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friends i would do before i do for myself. one coffee, there's six of us, you come in with one coffee, all right. i'll remember that. >> i didn't get canteened this week. >> we're going to take that but don't ask for it back later. when the camera leaves don't ask for it back. >> catch a lot of flack, we laugh, we joke you know what i mean. we hang out with each other all the time. we've become close. we have your zip code tattooed on your biceps. >> how am i getting home? i'm from east boston, 0212, send me on my way. >> one of his prior stay resulted in a conviction for smuggling drugs in the jail.
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he says this time he has a whole new attitude. >> going to work. >> he holds an inmate job as a runner cleaning housing units and helping with meal and laundry deliveries. >> my little office right here. this is all new to me, cleaning, staying out of trouble, trying to anyway. >> it wasn't easy, wasn't easy over the years. i guess you could call him the problem child for a while. >> deputy boussa worked at the suffolk county jail almost as long as giuliano has been frequenting it. >> years ago, always fighting, disrupting units. >> i was. >> leave segregation, come back to population and an hour later go back to segregation. >> that was me. >> were you on the ninth floor, the heroin? >> i was there. >> you were there when they passed it through the door. >> the eighth floor. >> passed it from the eighth to the ninth? >> i was there. those were the days, too. big change in this jail since then. >> yes.
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>> now you're lucky if you're getting a tylenol. now big brother is watching 24 hours a day. >> right. >> you can't make no moves. big brother, cameras all over the place. everywhere. >> while deputy boussa says he appreciates his current laid back attitude he's not about to let his guard down. >> i know how he operates. i have known him for a long time. he'll steal your wallet. turn around and help you look for it. just be careful with him. >> me? me? >> not sal. >> no. i gave it back. i gave him back his wallet. >> inmate ricardo gomes is a familiar face among staff as well. >> i kept looking out my cell and seeing the clock on the wall. this is what i wrote. ♪ i seen the clock on the wall, the rhyme is still rip. ♪ ♪ he got the mike [ bleep ] trippin' ♪ >> he's also known on the streets of boston where he performs as a rapper, some call the roxbury crackhead. ♪ roxbury crackhead cell phone
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ringer ♪ >> the lieutenant has spent more time with gomes over the past five months. >> he tends to ramp himself up over a wide variety of things that seem minor to us but big to him. >> there's no such thing as free speech in jail? >> he's already pulled several sprinkler heads and activated the heads and attempted several times to harm himself and he's been extremely verbally abusive and threatening to harm staff. >> no sooner does the night shift commander come on duty he spots gomes standing on his toilet reaching for a sprinkler head. >> what were you doing up there? >> i wasn't up there. >> i saw you up there. what were you doing up there? you don't have anything in your cell, do you? >> like what? >> anything. >> you searched me five times and still cant find no [ bleep ] that i have. every time they leave i break out a bag of coffee or [ bleep ] peach kool-ade and [ bleep ]
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have a sip. they never get everything. i got [ bleep ] you'll never find. >> want me to try? >> turn around. back up to the door. put your hands full, sir. >> captain assembles a team of deputies to inspect gomes' sprinkler head and the rest of his cell for any contraband. within seconds of removing gomes from his cell, the deputies unravel the string from around the sprinkler head. >> he tied a piece of bed sheet up on the sprinkler head up there and ready to pull the sprinkler head so that's why we're going in there, doing a cell search, and check it out for contraband or weapons because he's known to do this. >> because he's making threats and doing inappropriate things when i come on the shift we want to make sure there's nothing in here that would allow him to do, like for instance i'm looking down here beside this toilet and it seems to be a cup full of urine, and we'll have that taken out of here in a minute. the sprinkler head, the reality
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he's loading up on urine so possibly throw it at someone if he's not getting his way. >> you know who that was for, for lieutenant medeiros. >> we'll get you out of the chair, is that fair? >> he singled me out, only one that comes to my cell, only one that writes me up and keeps hassling me so i was saving him a little present. >> inmate made threats he was going to use it to throw in lieutenant medeiros' face next time he comes around. that's a threat we take seriously. he'll receive a disciplinary report for tying a string on the sprinkler head, cup of urine on the floor as well as making threats to the lieutenant. >> how much time do you still have to do. >> five years? >> here. >> five years in this hellhole no, thanks. i'd rather do five years in a grave. >> for this incident, gomes could receive up to 30 additional days in segregation.
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if he continues to pile up disciplinary reports he could spend the majority if not all of his sentence in segregation. >> i'm going to write the report. i supervised the search. this is what we came up with. we'll write a report on that and hopefully we have no more problems with mr. gomes for the rest of the evening. >> home sweet home, huh? >> coming up, reports of gambling and drugs trigger a massive search. and in the middle of it is a group of neighborhood buddies. like active head restraints, brake assist, and an enhanced accident-response system standard in every chrysler 200. no one would know if we didn't. but we would have. and for us, the things you do when no one is looking are the things that define you. ♪ this was the gulf's best tourism season in years. all because so many people wanted to visit us... in louisiana. they came to see us in florida...
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doesn't come just once a year. >> i love cookies. >> it comes once a week, on wednesdays, when the weekly canteen orders are delivered. >> i told you, sweetheart. that's only $80. you got to send me more money. >> for the ten months george shipps has been held in the protective custody unit, charged with downloading and distributing a huge collection of child pornography canteen is one of the few pleasures. >> that's the only thing i look forward to. i get trail mix, soups. i try to keep it very simple. i don't spend that much money. i don't want to call my children and say, can you send me some money. >> shipps' five children are all grown. today one of them has come for a visit. >> i'm going to see my daughter, who i haven't seen for over a year. i'm excited. >> it will be the first time shipps has seen his daughter, christine, since his arrest. >> not how you want to see your children. i'd much rather be meeting in a restaurant for dinner. but this will have to do for now.
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>> hi, how are you? >> christine has two young children and shipps' biggest concern is whether his charges might affect their relationship. >> it bothers me that she'll feel uncomfortable my being around my grandchildren. it's something i'm worried about. i have to reassure anything i did was all on the internet and that's all i want her to know, she doesn't have to worry. >> lockers are over there, straight ahead. >> are you nervous to see him? >> yeah. it's been a long time. >> what kind of relationship do you have? >> he's my father. he forgets my birthday all the time. but i don't know his either so i guess we're even. >> face me, left hand. when you go inside -- >> he's been in jail a lot. i don't remember how many times, but a lot. >> shipps's past convictions were for disorderly conduct and
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assault tied to his drug and alcohol abuse but christine says his current charges came as a surprise to her. >> i'm not sure any child sees it coming or wants to see it coming. i asked my mother. she said no. >> turn around. lift your hair, please. >> i think the mother part of me wants him locked away forever, but the daughter part of me wants to help him, so. me personally, i know that if i left my kids around them, they'd be fine, only because we were fine, but it's hard. to be a mother and a daughter in the same situation. >> just face me. open your mouth. lift your tongue. you can put your shoes back on. >> inmates awaiting trial are normally not allowed contact visits, but due to filming restrictions in the visiting area, jail officials set up a temporary space that could accommodate our cameras.
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>> hello. >> hi. >> my daughter. >> my favorite color. doesn't look that good on you though. >> good to see you. >> i have the one-piece but that's for people that are in the hole. how are you doing? >> good. >> that's nice. >> how are you? >> terrible. so how are [ bleep ] and [ bleep ]? >> very good. he'll be 3. >> when? >> march. >> march? >> 10th. >> march 10th he'll be 3. is he in day care now? >> yes. >> so when am i going to get some pictures of the kids? >> all of my pictures are digital. >> yes? >> all of the pictures are digital. >> you don't have a computer? >> i do. i just haven't put the pictures on the camera to print them out yet. mommy was the picture taker anyways, not really me.
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>> well you can have a disc printed out at a cvs or print out the disk for the pictures. i know in the paper the charges that i'm here for, i just wanted you to know all of those, everything was on the internet. i just wanted you to know that what i did, i know was, was stupid, first of all. i never should have been downloading all that material from the computer, but i just want you to know i would never, never in a million years do anything to harm my grandchildren. i love them very much. i just wanted you to know that. not to worry about them being around me, that i'm some kind of weird guy. i just, i love my grandchildren very much. i don't want to lose them. >> well, i think you need help, but i haven't changed. you're still my father.
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it still never affected my childhood. >> i thank you. i still love you. >> when's my birthday? >> it is august 5th. >> how old will i be? >> oh, geez, come on now you got me. let's see, jason's 21 -- 25. 24. no? wow. 26? >> close. >> time is up. >> all right. i'll see you in a couple of weeks. thank you for coming. >> i love you. >> i love you, too. >> it was great. i had a wonderful time. it was good to see my daughter. >> i've never heard him apologize for anything before. he drank a lot so he never really owned up to stuff, so when he did it was kind of weird for me. like i heard him but it didn't really know what to make of what i heard him say, so.
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>> don't know how she'll react to my charges, if somehow she was afraid to let me see my grandchildren, which would be the worst thing going to jail. my grandchildren don't have to know about this. >> but moments later, another inmate reminded shipps that his position in the jail house hierarchy is known. >> you're a disgrace, pc. >> he doesn't know who i am, he's never seen me before but because i have this uniform on, you're classed as a pedophile or a rapist or -- >> does it scare you? >> yes, that somebody's going to want to get into a fight with me, not even knowing me or why i'm here or anything like that. just by, because i'm in a special housing unit. >> later, the inmate who insulted shipps made his feelings clear. >> there's some reason why he's in there, a child molester or
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something like that, maybe killed a baby, stuff you don't do. >> and if shipps is eventually sent to prison, he could have even more problems. >> there's no pc up state if that's where he's going, so he's going to fight for his life and he's no -- as i know he's a pc now, if i see him in another jail, word will get out, this is how it is, so we have to handle it. jail politics. >> coming up, a major shakedown for sal giuliano and ricardo gomes makes another promise. >> i'm going to give you 60 days, day 61 i'm going to become awful upset if i'm still here. bad breath. patients will try and deal with it by drinking water. water will work for a few seconds but if you're not drinking it, it's going to get dry again. i recommend biotene. all the biotene products like the oral rinse...the sprays have enzymes in them. the whole formulation just works very well. it leaves the mouth feeling fresh.
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>> turn around. >> this could be anything from multisurface cleaner to tile cleaner for the showers.
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that could be a bad thing in the officer's eyes. cleaner. >> anything like that, pour it out, better safe than sorry. >> every inmate in the boston suffolk county jail knows cell inspections for drugs, weapons or other contraband are a way of life. >> they're doing their job. i can't complain. >> i don't feel that way. i feel like i'm being violated, man. >> we do random drug searches every day throughout the facility. four times a year we do the entire inmate. that's every inmate in the unit gets searched as well as all of the cells. >> today, 30 deputies are inspecting a housing unit of 180 inmates at the house of correction. >> we're bringing in two dogs today, one is a patrol dog, german shepherd, pretty loud, gets the attention of the inmates. lets them know we mean business, they'll follow the rules during the process, especially when we think weapon, et cetera, might be present. anything that makes them second guess their behavior is on our side. >> i want to talk to lieutenant medeiros.
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>> how did you get all these canteen items? seriously. >> during the searches we came across inmate danny smith in possession of a large amount of canteen items. a lot of times they swap items for gambling or they are strong arming other inmates. they don't have currency here so the currency is canteen. >> five years ago during a prior stay here sal giuliano was convicted of a more serious offense -- attempting to smuggle drugs into the jail. though he claims he's cleaned up his act, reputations die hard and today his cell is one of the first searched. >> they said they found drugs in the bathroom downstairs that they fought were from me in the bathroom down stairs that everyone in the joint has access to every day, but because i clean down there, they wanted to question me about it. i don't know what they were talking about, though. >> giuliano's cell comes up clean. while the search turns up plenty of minor contraband items no drugs or weapons are found anywhere else in the unit. >> it was a good opportunity to
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get a lot of excess items they weren't entitled or authorized to have in the cells. >> [ bleep ] with them. >> illegal outlet. >> fire hazard. >> giuliano wasn't surprised to be at the top of the list. >> they target the ones they think know something first. why they would think me i really don't know, honestly, maybe before they had a reason to but i've been staying out of trouble so i don't know why they, you know. >> still, giuliano has no regrets about his past. >> i'm not ashamed of anything. i have the word tattooed on my back, "shameless." >> george shipps says he has plenty of regrets about downloading and according to him unknowingly distributing thousands of images of child pornography on his guilty. he's innocent until proven guilty, but as an accused sex
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offender, he must spend his time in protective custody while he awaits trial. >> i would never in a million years hang around with anybody in here if i didn't have to live here with them so you have to get along with people because that's just the way it is but these people -- and if i ever seen them on the street i would say hello but i wouldn't say hello let's go have a beer or let's go hang out. i wouldn't hang out with anybody in here. >> though he could face ten or more years in prison if convicted, shipps is hopeful he will soon reach a plea bargain. >> what is a fair sentence for your crime? >> i think probation. i've been here now for well over a year. i think i've served enough time. i am sure i'll be able to live my life without porn just as i live my life without alcohol or drugs. sometimes you get a craving or an urge. but i don't see myself having a
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problem with relapsing when it comes to pornography. >> ricardo gomes is also dealing with a reputation issue. he recently had a cup of urine confiscated from his cell. he says he was going to throw it at a particular officer, but first he was going to make it an even more sinister concoction. >> i was planning on making a special remedy called funky cold medina, skunk juice, urine, feces, peanut butter and sour milk and you mix it together until it's liquid. if you hit anybody with this, they ain't coming, they're not going to want to go home, trust me. >> bricks, i didn't finish coloring it in. >> a few weeks later, gomes had managed to avoid any more disciplinary problems. >> i told that lieutenant i promised him i wouldn't act up,
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keeping my word because i want to get my transfer. 60 days of quiet and i'm out of here. >> officials deny reaching such an agreement, gomes says if he stays out of trouble for 60 days he could become eligible for transfer to a jail in another county. >> i'm going to give them this 60 days. on day 61, i'm going to become awful upset if i'm still in here. if i'm still in here i'm going to act up so bad they have to ship me out. i do things nobody else would do. i sit in the cell inside all four cells and look about the people here all men call look inside and what do i see a life in a fence is waiting for me.

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