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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> i go for my prey. >> trans gender inmate undergoing hormone therapy uses femininity to manipulate there. >> show a nipple here or there and walk around in a t-shirt. >> when an inmate charged with assault faces the judge, it's more than her young daughter can
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bear. and -- >> my real parents are jfk and marilyn monroe. i was their love child so -- >> an unusual inmate with an unusual charge. threatens -- >> dead man when i get out on the street. >> you don't listen. >> no, you don't listen. >> you can go back to your cell. you have enough audience. >> even slips free of his restraints. in a popular section of downtown cleveland, stands the cuyahoga county correction center. every day countless people pass
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by the 11th story building having no idea of the drama inside. >> we have to come back every week, every day, every shift, we will. >> some of the 2200 men and women incarcerated here have been convicted of crimes, most have only been charged and are awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. >> run the gamut on the type of individuals here. charges range from misdemeanor charges to the highest felony you can think of. it's different every day. you meet people that you never thought you would meet before. everybody has a different story. >> hardly anyone has a story or as many stories as john schmidt. he's been charged with inducing
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panic, to which he has pled not guilty. it's not a run of the mill charge nor has schmidt proven to be a run of the mill inmate. >> i went to use a pay phone and by the time i came back, there was like nine cops there, maybe ten, streets blocked off and then they ran up to me, they said, what are you doing? put your hands up. do you have any weapons? i had no weapons. they are like, what's that silver container that's in your car that's attached to your key ignition? because a parking plot attend ent said you told me it was a nuclear bomb, atomic bomb and if they undo the key chain it will ignite and go off. >> according to the police report, he told the parking lot attendant he had an atomic bomb in his car and planned to below up the city of cleveland. the attendant called police and
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schmidt was arrested and no bomb was uncovered in his vehicle. they know him well enough not to take everything he has literally. >> what's going on out there? >> secret service are locking down the city. there's a threat of atomic bombs so -- >> all day today, he's been awake the entire time, continuously hitting the windows every couple of minutes. and i continually go up and see what his issue is. it ranged from being the new sheriff to that he's won the presidential election. >> he has numerous stays over the past 11 years. convicted of crimes including theft, credit card fraud and writing bad checks. many of those stays have included evaluations by the psychiatric staff to disruptive behavior and what he says. >> my real parents are jfk and
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marilyn monroe. i was their love child so -- >> my name is really john schmidt. >> i know who you are. >> all right. >> in the system for like 11 years now. and basically kept me in here because i found out a lot of dirty secrets for cleveland. osama bin laden is still alive, never left the country. we could never find him because he was in cleveland. >> osama bin laden is in cleveland? >> yes, he was at the horse shoe casino. and he's small, lost weight. nothing like the pictures. >> if outrageous claims were his only issue, he would probably spend less time in segregation, the housing unit where they are
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confined to their cells for 23 hours a day and enjoy few if any privileges. >> inmate schmidt does not care about being locked up. he's a harder inmate to deal with because lockup doesn't work. >> he is currently back in segregation for taking his cleaning duties in another housing unit to an unacceptable level. >> he was sweeping around here with his broom and everything like that and i had to talk to an inmate around the corner. i came back and seen him pull telephone wires out of the wall. what are you doing? he told me that there was a bomb in the telephone and that he was defusing the bomb. >> are you ready? >> he is charged with a 219, which is major disruptive conduct. >> while schmidt will not receive criminal charges for pulling out phone wires, officer may will attempt to take a
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statement about the incident. he seems determined to talk about other matters. >> just because i don't have an title as an attorney, you may want to do research on me. i'm not from cleveland at all. i'm from atlanta, okay? >> what does that mean? >> that means that all of this bull [ bleep ] you are running here -- >> watch the language. >> with aces in the sky and getting me to sign with atlanta, i was already signed with atlanta. i'm not going to play for new york. guess what, i'm not going to -- >> okay. >> i'm going to atlanta where i'm from. >> he started off good but then he seemed to be a little confused about playing ball and signing for atlanta. >> okay. >> one last thing, just remember all of this is being video recorded, so everything you said, okay, will be coming against you. >> okay, and everything you said will be taken into consideration. >> thank you, i appreciate it.
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>> thank you. he seemed to be a bit threatening to me. this is the first time i met this gentleman so i'm sure i'll have further meetings with him. coming up -- >> you seem like a very bright guy but i think you kind of sabotage your own self. you must get off on it. >> the jail psychiatrist gets to the bottom of john's stories and -- >> i never hung around a lot of gay people before. not my thing. >> a special housing unit for seniors and gays. >> this is very interesting, intelligent, articulate. a ki! v8 v-fusion plus energy. natural energy from green tea plus fruits and veggies. need a little kick? ooh! could've had a v8. in the juice aisle.
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reflect the diversity of the city itself and 70 housing units, none as diverse as 9-d. it is dedicated to male inmates who might be considered prey. >> they are transgender inmates, homosexual inmates. they mix them in with the older inmates because they are less likely to assault them for the lifestyle, if they would be in a younger pod, they would be more assaults on them. >> i am in here because of my age. i'm a heterosexual, i'm a straight guy. >> 65-year-old mason says 9-d exposed him to people he might never have met on the outside. >> i never hung around a lot of gay people before, not my thing. it is really interesting, intelligent articulate and definitely have a lifestyle that
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i choose not to live. they don't choose to live mine. that's the way it is. and it's a relatively peaceful place, not a lot of screaming or yelling here. >> but not feeling peaceful the day he was arrested on vandalism charges. he's entered a not guilty plea and now awaiting trial. >> i broke a smoke detector at the retirement community where i live. i was going to an aa meeting and i became angry and sat down and there was a smoke detector sitting there. i ripped it out of the wall and tore it apart. a security guard saw me doing it and arrested me. here i am, five weeks later. it's been very disconcerting to be here to tell you the truth. i see young people that have been here many, many, many times and i think to myself, when you get to be my age, you look back at your life and realize you made bad decisions in the past and always get back to haunt you
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when you get older, always do. >> clarence culverson is one of those inmates. over the past years, has done time for convictions, including forgery and theft and felonious assault. >> this right here is a safety zone for me because out there i'm self-destructive. i think i'm above the law and like to steal cars and like to rob old men and sell drugs and i'm at the point where i would do anything to maintain gucci, i like the best. >> currently awaiting trial on drug trafficking and burglary charges to which he has pled not guilty. he said he's been planning for a sex change operation. >> i'm a woman, got a 34-b, all
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right. and i'm still taking hormone pills, it will help me make the process exchange a little easier because it's painful and i got to make sure it's something i want to do. they are giving me extra time to make sure it's what i want to do. once you get it done, there's no going back. >> are you scared to get your [ bleep ] cut off? >> i thought they would splint it and push it up in? i don't think i could do that. >> you would think being at a male dorm i would have a field day? that's not true. they are 60 to 80 years old. the crypt keeper, that's how they look here. half dead and limping and not physical fit, please. for the time being john schmidt need not be concerned with the
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other inmates in his housing unit. >> [ bleep ]. >> all right? >> yeah. he's in a one man segregation cell after damaging some phone cords. >> same old bull [ bleep ]. schmidt was arrested on a charge of inducing panic after claiming to have an atomic bomb in his car. he made other questionable claims in jail as well. >> my real parents are jfk and marilyn monroe. i was their love child so -- >> are we ready? >> now he has to meet with the jail psychiatrist, who will try to determine if he is mentally ill or just a trouble maker. >> any thoughts that somebody is following you, watching you, keeping track of you, other than the cos, that's everybody's job and they are paid for that? >> no. >> what was going on with the police ended up hauling you in?
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that's what i want to know? >> because somebody told them i had an atomic bomb detonator in my suv. >> who told them? who did you start yaking to about it? >> i planted this seed with one guy -- >> must like action? >> i do, i like action movies and like to see people look like complete idiots. it's kind of funny. >> you seem like a very bright guy but i think you sabotage your ownself. >> yes. >> you must get off on it? >> i do, i like excitement. >> it's too bad you don't use it more productively -- >> i'm going to start. >> well, you're 40 years old, when are you going to start, when you're 60? >> 40 is the magic number. >> you know what, you have to not just talk it, you've got to act it. all right, thank you, john. >> all right. >> my take is he loves drama.
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he's probably more personalty disorder than anything. truly he's very rational. very logical. a lot of people love to exaggerate and want to think they are very important and it's not a psychiatric illness. it's more a personality. they like to think they are more important or nacisse sisic because people don't give them that validation. coming up -- >> we're not going to play games and have us roll around with his nonsense. >> the ward cranks it up a notch on john schmidt -- >> if you can't pay me, you sure enough can't [ bleep ] me. >> charged with assaulting her girlfriend. economic times. employees are being forced to do more with less. and the need for capable leaders is greater than ever.
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center make up 10% of the total population. some prefer to keep a low profile, but not felicia smith. >> i'm a lesbian. i love women. any man i ever lay with had to pay me and i mean any man, if you can't pay me, you sure enough can't [ bleep ] me. i acquired a lifestyle being a dancer, big money. 12 or 13 i was in the club stripping and doing anything else i could do to get money. i was a pretty little girl and all the men knew that in the club and you want to call it prostitution, but in the clubs it's called dance you come home
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with money. >> smith danced under the stage name stormy. >> stormy because the first time i got on stage it was a storm, biggest storm in cleveland where the cars were floating. all the lights went out and a car went right through the front of the window and the owner called me stormy. i've been stormy ever since. and i think i'm kind of a storm when i dance. >> stormy when also described the relationship smith had with her former girlfriend which is what brought her to jail. >> we befriended each other and she needed help and i took her in. she had never been with a woman. >> things got out of hand after a night of drinking. >> she just came out the blue and [ bleep ] she grabbed a knife. and i grabbed it from her and restrained it. i had her down and cranking her until she went to sleep.
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>> smith is charged with aggravated assault and domestic violence and entered a not guilty plea but still must face the judge. >> am the meantime, smith says the one relationship in her life she hopes to improve on, the one with her 16-year-old daughter diana. >> diana doesn't judge me. diana loves me and tell you in a minute that's my mother and only mother i have. she's a cheer leader and playing soccer right now. she started dating boys and things and needs her mother. i can't relate to the stories but i listen. that's about it. as far as talking to her, i'm her best friend. she's been mine. diana all the time. i used to let my kids -- make me want to cry -- i don't like visits and all of that. i did this to my damned self. >> smith has a court hearing that she hopes will result in
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her release. if found guilty, she could face up to two years in prison. >> everything i've been through is something i had to go through. she goiis not going to go throu with it. she loves her mother, if i didn't do nothing right, i did right with that. top of her class, very proud of my daughter. >> coming up -- >> trained not to be emotional but i am because she's my best friend. >> felicia smith's daughter watches as a judge decides her fate. >> cut and dry, cut the [ bleep ]. the yankees, i already signed with the yankees. >> you know what, john -- >> you listen. >> at your age, there was no signing with the yankees. >> it's round two between john schmidt and the doctor. >> you have enough audience. boom. >> send him back. ♪
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here's what's happening, senior u.s. officials confirm to nbc news that israeli war planes bombed a military research facility north of damascus, the same facility targeted by israel in january, making the second israeli air strike in syria in as many days. seven americans were killed in afghanistan, five in a roadside bomb attack and two more when an afghan soldier open fire on troops. now we take you back to "lockup." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. inside the cuyahoga correction sent at the, housing unit 9-d is an open door.
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>> bunch of homosexuals. >> the trouble with me? people -- got nobody pick my own, i'm a grown man. >> picking you up off the floor, right? >> 9-d reserved for inmates who might be victimized by a younger tougher crowd in other parts of the jail. >> you've been around homosexuals before? >> yeah. >> you have no problem with the lifestyle? >> no. >> it's not like if i touch you it's going to rub off on you? >> right. >> touch you, now you're just blushing. >> most of the men here are either older, gay or transgender. like clarence culverson, issued an article of clothing not typically found in men's units. >> this is a county issued jail bra. i keep up -- only issued one, so
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i take care of it like it's my very own. >> he is growing breasts due to hormone treatments and says he uses them to his advantage. >> i'm like a vulture, go for my prey. when i see somebody vulnerable in there, take to my advantage and get what i want. i might show a nipple here or nipple there or take my bra off and walk around in a t-shirt, it turns them on. i know how to use it to my advantage. >> flirting in jail comes with risks. he has been sexually assaulted in another facility. >> before i go to bed, i put like a trap, like a booby trap so if somebody comes near my area, i used to break and enter, i know the dos and don't. they have to bypass my shoes and they are out in the open like
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that. this right here is a lotion bottle. that one i have my spoon and cup. this -- if this falls because it's quiet at night, got to be quiet, that's my traps. >> while culver son attempts to ward off unwanted attention, john schmidt, currently awaiting trial of inducing panic, seems to welcome it. >> he's flooded his toilet. he's stuck his sheets in there. and went and used the bathroom on top of that. flushed the sheets down the toilet. disrespectful to officers calling them the n word. >> we need to up the ante on this guy. let's move him over and place him in add seg and shut his water off. we need to take some action with this guy.
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>> all right. >> associate warden eric i'vey decided to send schmidt a message. he instructs the jail special response team to extract him and place him in a restraint chair for a face to face meeting. >> he's not going to have us running around with his nonsense. >> mental health deemed him to be behavior which means he knows what he's doing and he's trying to manipulate us. >> don't move! >> behind your back.
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>> why are you so nervous? bunch of [ bleep ]. what the [ bleep ] wrong with you? straight up [ bleep ]. boom, you're dead. see you bitch. [ bleep ] with the wrong president, idiots. secret service, take him out afterwards. what's up? what's going on with you? >> nothing, your guys crooked system. >> i'm concerned about the way you're behaving since you've been here. >> what was i doing wrong? >> issued -- from my understanding, you snatched the phone cord -- >> no, i'm not going to talk like that -- >> we're not going to talk like that. >> i'm going to talk -- >> you're not going to talk. >> let me tell you what's going to happen. >> from this point forward, your actions will dictate --
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>> what are we going to do? i'm in a dhchair. you're not going to take care of [ bleep ]. i'm going to kill myself. i'm going to go to mental health. >> why don't you just say that? >> because i'm playing you like a fiddle ivey. >> listen to the music, we'll take you down -- >> wouldn't let me shower in five days. i'm cleaning your mess up. >> take him down. >> are you the associate ward yet? no, loss. >> threatening suicide, schmidt is taken in to meet with the doctor. >> well, john, tell you, i'm a little confused. on the one handy heard you want to kill yourself. on the other hand, i heard you're busy flooding your cell and calling everybody every name in the book. you know what, the two don't go together. i'll tell you why. it's been my experience that
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most people that truly want to kill themselves -- >> do it. >> they do it, they cry out for help. you're just an attention getter. you just love -- >> you know what i hate? >> i can't imagine. >> i hate when people [ bleep ] people and lie. >> i don't bull [ bleep ] though people. >> you listen to bull [ bleep ], that's your problem. >> why aren't you behaving like a guy that used to be a manager, was it true value? >> here's what it is, let's cut and dry, cut the bull [ bleep ]. i already signed with the yankees. >> you know what, john -- >> listen, are you going to listen? >> at your age there was no signing with the yankees, trust me. >> calm down and work with her. >> cut the [ bleep ]. you did not sign with the yanke yankees. >> you know what?
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no, no, trust me. >> because i'm 40? >> now you're putting on this crap that you were not doing yesterday. that's not bipolar, let me tell you what it is? schizophrenic? >> manipulative. >> you got it, you're going really well. why would you say you're suicidal. >> i didn't say that until they put me in the chair. >> then you became suicidal? >> right. >> you really became suicidal? >> i know how to play the system. >> that's it. you know how to play the system. i don't even have to diagnose you. >> the system taught me how to play it. >> it's a new day, my dear. i'm here. >> i know you are, right, mom? >> i don't put up with crap, i told you that yesterday and told you that today and keep telling you that. >> i have been sentenced to anything so technically -- >> you don't listen. >> no, you don't listen. >> john, you can go back to your cell. you've had enough of an
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audience. >> boom. >> send him back and take him back. he can go back to 7-d and be without his clothes -- >> that's right. >> when you say you're suicidal i have to view you are, i'm not taking chances, your safety is my most important issue. we're here to help anybody with true mental illness. but when i get the sense that i think somebody is scamming me, you know, then i really get very angry because. he's a manipulator. >> enjoy yourself in hell. time will pay off. >> coming up -- >> don't be mad because [ bleep ] waiting. >> john schmidt makes it personal and this time not even a straight chair can keep him down. help the gulf recover, and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i've been with bp for 24 years.
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unlike prison where inmates are convicted and spending their time, jail mates like smith have court dates that impact their future in unknown ways. smith will face a judge regarding her alleged assault on a former girlfriend. >> i'm anticipating him giving my time served, 106 days, time served. i'm looking at going home. i already got a ride. >> i want to get out of the here to get right with my kid and get home. i need to get home. she need her mother. smith's daughter is 16-year-old diana. >> how are you feeling about today? >> i'm trying not to be emotional but i am because she's
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my best friend. if she's getting locked up, it will have an effect on me. >> diana is escorted by her father's mother, diana mcgee. >> i know how much she loves her mother and known felicia for most of her life and she's a good girl. she's got caught up in some bad situations. and she had a rough life growing up, which has affected her. and i hurt for both of them. >> that's my daughter. >> all rise. >> okay. >> you may be seated. we are here on case 565333. >> if convicted, smith could face up to two years in prison. but rather than go to trial, she's decided to enter a guilty plea to aggravated assault and domestic violence in exchange for what she hopes will be probation and her freedom. >> and you understand that by changing your plea here, you
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would then be admitting the truth of the charges to which you are pledding. you would be waiving your right too go to trial and the court could proceed to immediately sentence you. how do you plea? >> guilty, your honor. >> is that made knowingly and voluntarily and of your own free will? >> yes. >> after several minutes to make sure she understands all of the implications, the judge accepts her guilty plea. decides to hold off sentencing for another month while the probation department reviews her case. her attorney would still like to secure her release before then. >> currently felicia is in jail on a 25,000 bond, we're wondering if they would grant her a personal bond. she's been in jail since the event happened, june 9th of this past year. she's approaching four months in jail. apparently her mom and daughter are in back of the courtroom here today. she would have a place to stay, i'm fairly confident she would
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show back up to court. we would ask you to take that into consideration. >> all right, thank you. >> court is aware of the defendant's prior criminal history, which does not argue in favor of substantial reduction of bond or personal bond in this case. i will grant some concession in that regard, however, i'll lower the bond to $15,000, property or 10%. but until then remanded to the custody of the sheriff. thank you, we are adjourned on this matter. >> thank you, judge. >> thank you, your honor. >> the judge would have released smith until her sentencing date had she or her family been able to post $15,000 but they cannot. smith is returned to jail. >> i don't know what the lord has in store, say a prayer and -- >> i ain't seen my baby in four months.
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and she love her mother. my ex-mother-in-law crying, yeah, that's when it hits you, it's real. >> while felicia smith suffers the pain of being separated from her daughter, john schmidt seems eager to engage jail staff. >> he's been quite problematic, now i've heard he's urinated out the cell and kicking and banging. we want to place him in and show him we have other things available to use as far as force goes. >> ward deploys the special response team to extract schmidt for the second time. >> get down! crawl backwards -- >> clear the windows. >> at all times. >> keep down and keep your stomach on the ground. keep coming back.
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stay there, face down -- >> go. >> my jail. [ bleep ] yourself, you're a dead man when i get on the street. all of you. you hear me? i know where your family lives. i'm going to burn each one of them. you're dead. >> chair is secure. >> you think i'm playing with you? >> mask going on. >> neither the restraint chair or spit mask do anything to deter his threats on staff. >> point that gun at me you're [ bleep ] dead, man. on the streets you're dead. i know where you [ bleep ] live and know everything about your family. >> officers have come to know schmidt as a big talker but
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never take threats lightly. >> it kind of hits home but you have to understand that this is the job and that's something you have to put up with every day in here. >> schmidt aimses insults at ward ivey and his wife. >> you got to do better -- can't get me upset. >> officers remove schmidt's spit mask and place him in a holding cell until he's ready to be compliant. >> they are coming. they can't stop me. they made me what i am. >> rather than let time alter his behavior as it does for most inmates, schmidt attempts to escape its bonds.
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>> he's out of the chair. >> out of the chair. >> have a seat. sit back in the chair. >> have you ever seen this. >> one other time. >> remove an enmate from a chair. >> the special response team is once again mobilized to secure schmidt. but this time they'll place him in a new restraint chair in case there were any defects with the first one. >> is he secure? >> [ bleep ] restraints -- i'm a
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lycan -- i am undead. that's why they keep trying to kill me. i'm always one step ahead of you because i am the antichrist. coming up, john schmidt and ward ivey have a face-off and felicia smith learns her fate. ♪ the middle of this special moment and i need to run off to the bathroom. ♪ i'm fed up with always having to put my bladder's needs ahead of my daughter. ♪ so today, i'm finally talking to my doctor about overactive bladder symptoms. [ female announcer ] know that gotta go feeling? ask your doctor about prescription toviaz. one toviaz pill a day significantly reduces sudden urges and accidents, for 24 hours. if you have certain stomach problems or glaucoma,
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>> when i get out tomorrow, i'm going to kill one of them. >> why are you threatening people's lives? >> because i don't give a [ bleep ]. >> warden ivey decides to make one more attempt. >> we have to have some sort of interaction and we're trying to change the way we utilize force and less hands on. ivey asks the camera crew remain outside of the cell but the conversation will be recorded on a body camera. >> what's going on? people's families and all that kind of stuff? >> the man upstairs in second shift all week long been treating me like an animal. give him my [ bleep ], coming in -- >> wait a minute. what that got to do with you making these comments about our
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family and the officers here now? seems like you keep doing things and creating lockups after lockup after lockup. for a man that wants to go to population, seems like at some point you would sit down and do your little lockup time and go on into the population, just that simple. but you keep doing things to bring us to the -- cursed out aid ward and all of the corporals and telling everybody to suck private parts your body. you have to control your behavior. at some point you have to try to control your behavior. >> okay. >> i want you to behave and act like the inmate like we expect an inmate to ask. >> all right. >> that's what's expected of you. we're going to come back a little later and get you out of the chair and try to start playing this -- >> i appreciate that. >> i apologize for [ bleep ] --
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>> i'll let her know. >> whether the talk will bear permanent change is yet to be seen. predicting the future in jail is never easy. one month later, change is very much a part of life at cuyahoga county. for felicia smith, change is good. >> miss smith, time to go. >> for real? >> time to go. >> for real? >> awesome. >> her judge has sentenced her to two years probation and today she is being released after nearly six months in jail. >> i see you in two weeks? >> never, probably in seven years or five. >> you got a seven-year itch then -- >> whatever. look at all of these books. >> come on, santa claus. >> about an hour later, smith is bound for home.
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i need a cigarette, y' all. see how dirty it is, disgusting. it seems john schmidt has also embraced change and it's not just limited to his appearance. >> oh, look at that. that's called the dirty bird. like -- this is the best meal. >> why in two pieces? >> because i don't lay around when i came out, i clean up. because if you do the right things, they'll look out for you. if you act leak a jerk you don't get nothing. >> schmidt has earned the trust of staff. they let him resume his job cleaning the housing unit and compensated with a couple extra servings of food. >> oh, thank you, jesus. number six, look at that.
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see, look out for somebody on the -- and he looks out for you with some food. if you're good to people, people are good to you. if you act like an [ bleep ] -- >> we're starting to see the behavior change because we've been giving him less attention, having one or two people dealing with him. we've started to kind of trim the numbers down so when he does act up, we just have the necessary people around to deal with him and up to this point, we have seen improvement in his behavior and things are really getting better with them. >> staff has adopted a new approach to dealing with him, schmidt feels he had a part in his apparent transformation as well. >> yoga keeps me calm. i don't lift weights so it's stretching and cleaning and --
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that happens once in a while. >> schmidt says his years of yoga training helped him get out of tight spots. >> my ligaments are so limer, i can get out of it. be able to con tort over doing the yoga for four years practicing. most people when they get in there, they want to fight it. the more pressure you put on it, it tightens it up. >> cross my legs like this and sit here like praying feetal position and then that gives me wisdom. then i read my bible. i got it marked. let's see what i'm reading right now. look what i'm reading, revelation. this tells you everything that we're in right now.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. there are 2 million people behind bars in america. we open the gates. "lockup." >> get on the ground! put your hands behind your back! >> prison is not a nice place. >> he was a big-time football player at lsu. in his life i guess it went in a different direction and ended up here. >> i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. >> you act like you so high on a pedestal. you so much better than everybody.
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