due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. the guy you're looking for. >> 10-4, standby. >> srt. left! >> after a tip that a potentially violent inmate is plotting an escape, the special response team is called to action. >> you guys are trustees. that means you're supposed to be trustworthy, much more so than the regular inmate.

but i'm not going to have one of my officers getting stabbed or one of you getting stabbed. >> the discovery of a shank in the kitchen could result in criminal charges for an inmate worker. >> i'm going home this month. i'm not trying to jeopardize that. i have three kids and a wife. >> after he hit me, i was able to get in close to him and able to move him to the ground. >> a younger inmate experiences the agony of pepper spray -- after swinging at an officer. >> it burns! it burns! it burns! it burns! rising 11 stories above the shores of lake erie, cuyahoga county corrections center

occupies half a city block in the heart of cleveland's revitalized downtown. some of the inmates here have been convicted, most have only been accused of crimes and are awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. those on the upper floors have a perfect view of the nearby football stadium, but life behind the walls is anything but fun and games. >> let's go! out! >> that goes for staff as well. >> this is not the easiest place to work in. it's all concrete and rough edges. >> open your mouth. stick out your tongue. turn your head left. >> it's not always the most peaceful place. most of these individuals who are in here don't want to be here. things happen. altercations do come up. we have to alleviate those as quickly as possible. >> put up your hands.

>> you all think you're real tough? lawrence silva, awaiting transfer to prison, has been subdued by, after striking at an officer. >> the inmate asked me to help him out with the situation, get back to the back wall of your cell. i entered the cell and the inmate said it's [ bleep ] that i'm up here and i'm like, sir, i just got up into this pod, i don't know what situation you're in. he took a step and threw his right fist toward me. i was able to just barely get out of way. he caught me in my upper right shoulder. after he hit me, i was able to get in close to him and able to move him to the ground. and i was lucky enough my partner heard me. >> oh, my god! >> my partner was able to run in and i kind of just moved out of the way as he sprayed him with

the oc spray. >> oh, my god, this [ bleep ] burns! please! please! [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. it burns! it burns! it burns! it burns! >> anybody that carries the oc spray has to have it done to them first. it is probably the worst hour and a half i've experienced that i can think of off the top of my head. it literally makes everything hell. >> staff wash the pepper spray from his face and eyes but the effects will linger for at least several more minutes. >> do the rest. >> it burns! wipe my face. oh my god! oh, my god! oh, my god! oh, my god! >> calm down. >> though silk initially denied swinging at the officer, he later indicated otherwise.

>> why did you -- >> i'm sorry, i didn't mean to. >> but why? >> i was angry. i was angry. >> after treatment from medical staff, silk is in confined in what could be described as the jail's worst neighborhood, security segregation. >> ain't got no toothbrush or ain't got no toothpaste. ain't got no proper hygiene in here. >> he's on security segregation status which things are taken away, his cup, his spoon, toothbrush, toothpaste, all that stuff is taken away. he can get it back when he wants to use it. it's taken away as a security status. any time he comes out of the cell, he has to be handcuffed and shackled. any time anybody goes into the cell, he has to be handcuffed. we're going to conduct a board hearing for you and i'll explain everything to you. >> the board hearing will determine whether silk spends the rest of his time at cuyohoga county in segregation or if he

can return to general population prior to his transfer to prison. >> any evidence to present at the hearing? >> no. >> i'm going to serve you with your rights. >> i need you to read through this -- >> i didn't do nothing, man. >> that's why you're having this. >> it don't matter what i say, i'm always wrong. inmate is always wrong. when it comes to anybody who works for the system, we're always wrong. >> listen, this is why we're doing the hearing. you have a right. >> but it don't. >> yes, it does. >> the assault is considered among the most serious of infractions, staff must also stay on top of a litany of others like gambling. >> they come take that [ bleep ] away from you. that ain't acceptable here. >> gambling might not be in the cards now, but prior to his arrest, ronald wells was a regular at one of downtown cleveland's most popular attractions, the horseshoe casino. >> i love gambling. i love gambling on the streets. once the casino came to ohio, i was thinking like i don't got to be risking dough on the street no more, worrying about the

police taking my money or somebody else robbing me. i'm about to go to the horseshoe. >> i'm damn near platinum clear at the casino, got a rewards card. uh-oh. uh-oh. uh-oh. watch out. about $5,200 i won and about $12,000 i lost. >> but it's not gambling at the casino that landed walls in jail. >> they try to say i allegedly robbed somebody coming out of the casino. i don't know what they're talking about. >> wells is accused of following a casino customer to his car then robbing him of his winnings. $1,800. he's pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. following his arrest he was linked to an unsolved home invasion bringing his total charge count to 16, including 5 counts of aggravated robbery and 4 counts of felonious

assault. he has pled not guilty to the new charges as well. >> getting locked up so many times, you get sick and tired of being sick and tired and tired of doing the same thing. you're going to get the same results. so i know what the bad life going to do. i know what the worst life -- i know what the street life going to give me. it's going to [ bleep ] give me the dead or in jail. let me see how this good life going to do. let me see what me trying to do it right going to do, give god a chance to work with me. coming up -- >> suit it up. let's go. everybody's got his space, right? him right here. familiar yourself with it. >> ronald wells is dealt another losing hand. and -- >> we'll flip this whole place out because there's a lot of people in here that want your job. >> a shank is discovered in the kitchen and staff must figure out who made it and why. (announcer) at scottrade, our clients trade and invest

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at the cuyahoga county corrections center in cleveland, some inmates are eligible for jailhouse jobs. these inmate workers are called trustees. >> i have about 75 kitchen trustees. probably about 15 safety and sanitation trustees, 8 bar boars, and out of 2,300 inmates, it is a privilege to be a trustee. >> trustees are not paid for their labor, but rewarded with time out of their cells, extra food and possibly time off their sentences. >> it is all to the discretion of the judge. we have a lot of individuals who are sentenced to 180 days and will get 90 days off. >> correctional staff assigned to the kitchen are outnumbered by trustees 10-1, but now that trust has been broken. >> single file. everybody. >> staff have confiscated a

homemade weapon, or shank. >> you guys are trustees. that means you're supposed to be trustworthy much more so than the regular inmate. but i'm not going to have one of my officers or staff around here getting stabbed or one of you getting stabbed. >> the kitchen is very, very dangerous place to work. have all kind of items that can be utilized as weapons, tools they cook with. this pallet is dry rotted and it could be pulled off. it's that simple. i have somebody that said it was them? somebody better speak up. nobody? all right. >> as officers search for any other weapons hidden in the kitchen, sergeant daniels orders the removal of all empty pallets. >> we're always on guard. you always got to expect the unexpected. there's never a dull moment here.

>> the trustees maintaining their silence, sergeant daniels makes it clear it could cost them. >> we'll flip this whole place out. everybody go to general population. because there's a lot of people in here that want your job. >> eventually several trustees come forward to implicate one of their own. james dean is serving a 90-day sentence for a probation violation on an assault conviction. >> it all started chiming in and everybody pointed to this particular person. he's still innocent until proven guilty. so we have jail investigators that's going to actually go up and, you know, do their investigation and determine whether or not he's guilty. okay? but he's already locked up. we put him in security segregation. he's denying everything, of course. >> that was never in my possession. >> staff also want to question a second inmate. >> what's your name? >> mr. valentine. >> put your hands on the wall.

>> though gary valentine found the shank and attempted to dispose it, he said it wasn't his. >> as i was going through an old box, it looked really tatterd and it looked to me to be a piece of plastic. we have a lot of broken pallets and do tie saran wrap to the pallet, but that particular day it was more than it appeared, you know. >> step in and step all the way to the back wall. >> valentine is also placed in confinement but believes he has a solid defense since he was with an officer when he found the shank. >> i don't see how you can charge me with something, i had a staff member next to me and me and him discovered it at the same time. it could be kind of asinine for me to put it there and say, look

what i found, come on. if i had anything to do with it, smart money would have been to leave it alone. i do know when we got back to our pod a few people were telling people to man up to it if it's yours. explain what it was used for and be done with it. >> was that said to a particular person? >> yes, it was. >> can you tell me who that person was? >> they did their investigation, i'm pretty sure they got the guy. >> dean says he knows exactly why the other inmates blamed him for the shank. >> i had everybody screaming at me saying, why don't you go ahead and take the fall for it because you're about to go home in a few days? we don't want to see everybody get fired. i looked at all of them and said i'm not taking the blame for something that i have no acknowledgement of. they said they are all going to snitch on me and say my name. i said, i'm not dumb, i have 17 days and i go home to my

children, to my wife, back to my job and that's freedom. why would i do anything to jeopardize my freedom like that? i said, absolutely not. what it is is they're trying to get me jammed up. coming up -- >> what is your knowledge about the shank? >> valentine and dean undergo interrogation. and -- >> we have enough right now to lock you down so tight in here you'll forget how to write letters, you'll forget about how to talk on the fine. i'm giving you an opportunity right now. >> things heat up for ronald wells. do you think? [ mom ] yea, give it more sparkles. [ male announcer ] your kids make great things. so give them a tasty, wholesome snack that has eight grams of whole grain... and is now made with real strawberries and bananas. honey maid teddy grahams. two new flavors now made with real fruit. i have a great fit with my dentures. i love kiwis. i've always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. super poligrip free -- it creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. even well-fitting dentures let in food particles. super poligrip is zinc free.

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fellows, go right to work. >> inmate workers or trustees are on duty on the cuyahoga county correctional center. but two of them, james dean and gary valentine are locked up in security segregation as the jail continues to investigate who's responsible for the shank recently discovered among boxes in the kitchen. >> what it happened to be, a piece of wood that fell off a pallet that was modified from its original state.

once they change it by wrapping shrink wrup wrap around it for the purpose of holding it, it becomes a weapon. things like this is not tolerated. this could be stuck in one of my officer's necks and i'm not tolerating that. >> now it's up to officer may, one of the investigators to find answers. she will interview both suspects, starting with james dean. >> hey, mr. dean. >> dean is only two weeks away from completing his sentence. but his release will be jeopardized if the jail discovers he's responsible for the shank and choose to file new criminal charges. >> what do you know about the weapon? >> honestly, ma'am, i didn't know anything about it. >> why were you back there opening boxes? >> i wasn't back there opening boxes. the only time i went back there a when they were stocking the freezers and i was asked to go back there and help. >> who asked you? >> a c.o. i had an inmate that's incarcerated with me in there, gary valentine, he's the one that found it and didn't think anything of it and tried to throw it away and the officer

asked what it was and that's when it was discovered. >> and how long have you been a kitchen trustee? >> roughly 70 days. >> have you had any problems down there? >> no, ma'am, i have not been any problems. i have not been in any lockup. this is my first time to the hole. >> is there anything else you'd like to tell me? >> i wouldn't jeopardize myself to have anything in my possession, in my room or anything because i know what would happen about it. you know, i'm going home this month. i'm not trying to jeopardize that. i have three kids and a wife. i'm not jeopardizing that whatsoever. >> all right. thank you. have a good day. >> you, too. >> i tend to believe him that that shank was not his, and i do believe when he said that a couple of the inmates told him, you know, to say that it was his because they do do that, they'll find one person to say, well, you go ahead and say you did it and in their case, if he took

the rap, then none of the other trustees would get fired. >> officer may will next speak to the other suspect, gary valentine. >> what is your knowledge about the shank? >> the only thing i was doing was straightening up the shelf per the officer and was standing next to me when it was found. >> officer merrick was with you when you found it? >> absolutely. >> do you know mr. james dean? >> just met him when i got on the pod. >> do you have any issues with him? >> absolutely none. >> did you see him have any issues with anybody? >> no. i've been in the kitchen every time i come here for the last on/off 12 years. i don't need to make a shank or participate with anybody who makes one. i understand it's the rules. i feel like i'm being penalized for doing the right thing. >> we want to get everything squared away. okay. i'll be in touch.

>> i thank you. >> thank you. i know somebody had it there for a reason. what that reason is, i don't know. and who put it there, i don't know. >> one investigation continues, another is about to begin. >> received this letter in the mail today. it's from an unknown person, actually. and the inmate that it's referring to is an inmate ronald wells, and what letter basically talks about is that he's -- he's maybe planning escape. this inmate is in here at this point in time he's in here for robbery. the robbery took place over at the horseshoe casino. >> the individual who wrote claims that they're ronald's family and they're scared to death of him. they love him to death but they're afraid of him. >> did you want an investigator to listen to the phone calls? >> that's the other thing because they indicate in the letter that he's talking in codes and things like that on the phone.

i want our investigators to listen to some of his phone calls to see where we get with that. all right? >> what you all doing? >> all inmate phone calls are recorded and it doesn't take long for officer may to find a suspicion conversation between wells and his girlfriend. >> be looking for your pontiac. they come get me, i break out. you talk about breaking out. >> with wells facing several charges for violent crimes, the jail will take no chances. the special emergency response team has been activated to secure him. >> all right. we're going to 9c jail 2. we're going to be looking for ronald wells. we've received some information this inmate might be planning to escape, so we'll go in, do a dynamic entry. put the pod on the floor. everybody's going to be secured. corporal mclellan is going to key on the inmate. once we get everybody secure,

you're going to remove that inmate. got that? you got control of everything. not explaining stuff to these guys. get them up and get them out. all right? good? >> yes, sir. >> suit is up. let's go. everybody has got his face, right? you know what he looks like. that's him right here. if you don't, familiar yourself. >> everybody look at the picture over here. >> got your assignments. >> srt. left! coming up -- >> go, go, go. >> the special response team pays a visit to ronald wells. and -- >> there's video footage of you admitting that you swung at the officer. >> lawrence silk attempts to mount a defense. no, no, no! stop! humans. one day we're coming up with the theory of relativity, the next... not so much.

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i'm betty nguyen. here's what's happening. president obama met with his national security team to discuss egypt.

this after president mohamed morsi was ousted yesterday. and a senior judge sworn in as the new interim president. france has rejected an asylum request from nsa leaker edward snowden. it's believed he's still at a moscow airport. and st. louis, missouri, celebrated july 4th with an air show that included a world war ii bomber and other aircraft performing synchronized stunts. happy fourth of july, everybody. now it's back to "lockup." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. an anonymous letter and a recorded phone call have led officials at cleveland's cuyahoga county correctional center to believe that a violent inmate could be plotting an escape. >> they come get me i'm going to break out this bitch. >> the inmate is ronald wells

who is currently awaiting trial for allegedly robbing a casino customer of his winnings as well as a separate home invasion robbery. >> corporal mcleland is going to key on the inmate. once we get everybody secured, we're going to get the inmate. >> srt. left! >> now the jail special emergency response team will make a dynamic entry into wells' housing unit. isolate him from the others and remove him for questioning. >> go, go, go. >> face down! to the ground!

>> in the turmoil of the team's arrival, corporal mcleland identifies wells and removed him from the unit. >> there's a reason for this and i think you know why it is. but i'm not going to lead you to the water and make you drink it either. >> all right. i know you're not going to do that. i'm trying to think, though, because i can't did nothing. i don't talk to nobody, don't talk on the phone. i'm not going to talk to you. i'm not going to talk to you. you want y i want you to talk to me. >> wells is placed in a holding cell and corporal mcleland will conduct a strip search and question him. >> fellows, you're going in, turn to your left, walk all the way around. >> meanwhile, the special response team corralled the rest of the inmates in the nearby rec area to conduct individual searches. >> we're going to pat you down. follow their instructions. >> they're looking for any evidence of collusion with wells.

>> i'm going to get to the bottom of all of this anyway, whether you want to talk or not. i'm trying to be fair with you right now. unless you want to be locked down tighter than anybody else in this whole building, i suggest you begin to tell me your story. you don't want to tell me your story, that's fine. >> i've been here a week. i'm trying to think, i'm on the phone talking with my girl. but -- >> now you remember, don't you? now you remember, don't you? >> man, come on, man. corp. man. corp. >> it's all coming back to you now? >> corp, though, come on, man, you know [ bleep ]. >> think it over. >> i am thinking it over, corporate. [ bleep ], talk, though, man. >> that's fine. they talk and let the wrong people listen. >> you right. i would never. come on, man. >> speak. >> goofy stuff, i was [ bleep ] talking on the phone. i say [ bleep ] -- >> i'm listening. >> oh my god, man.

man, i said some stupid [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. >> okay. >> i told my -- i told my girl you'll break me out of this bitch, you'll come get me out of this bitch, man. man, you, crop, already -- >> i would really love to hear the whole story. you're giving me bits and pieces. >> i ain't not being -- >> you are very [ bleep ] right now, but i want you to be honest with the whole story. okay? >> i'm being honest with the whole -- >> okay, because there's more to those stories than you're telling me. >> no, it ain't. it wasn't serious, though. i swear to god. i was talking to a female on the phone. >> that's basically it, that's your story? i'm giving you a chance right now, i'm being fair with you because basically you're not telling me your story, we have enough right now to lock you down so tight in here you'll forget how to write letters and forget how to talk on the phone. your meals are going to be altered.

i'm giving you the opportunity right now. >> i don't want that to happen because i want, [ bleep ], i'm telling you the truth. i admitted i said some stupid [ bleep ] on the phone. come on, man, you can read how i said it on the phone. it wasn't serious. it wasn't even like it was full of details. i'm like you're going to come get me out of this bitch. >> relax. >> don't leave me in this hole. >> we haven't decided on your fate yet. i'm getting your story right now. and then we'll reconvene and talk about ronald wells and then we'll decide your fate. okay? but we take stuff like that serious. >> i know what you [ bleep ] talking to see -- >> we'll give you some free advice, in the future, be careful, okay? cross your fingers, cross your toes, you might get out of this. okay? no begging and pleading now.

you let me finish my job. >> as corporal mcleland leaves to file his report, wells has time to contemplate the consequences of his actions. >> i'm tired of being messed up. like, i always mess up, and for people who are watching this, i just want them to know, though, like, this ain't what you want to do. like this. this has been a career for me, and sometimes you get sick and tired of being sick and tired. these ain't fake tears. these are real tears. i don't want anybody to feel sympathy for me, you know what i mean? like, like, i found myself. you feel me? i know me. i know i ain't the perfect dude and i know i'm just tired. i've got a daughter. i've got a family. none of them don't want to be seeing me in here in and out of

these jails. i was talking to myself in the mirror today when i came here and i was just like, you're going to be tired, like when is it ever going to be enough? >> lawrence silk might be asking the same question. he's currently awaiting transfer to prison to begin a ten-minute sentence on charges including aggravated theft. but his final days at cuyahoga county are proving to be painful. >> it burns! oh, my god it burns! >> sir, calm down. >> he's in security segregation for swinging at an officer. >> do you hear me laughing? this is [ bleep ] not a game. they got me in here for no reason. oh, my god, man. >> now he must answer to jail's disciplinary board. >> how are you doing, mr. silk? how are you? >> though silk appears unwilling to respond, the hearing continues.

>> initially you pleaded not guilty to the jail investigator for those charges that i read you. do you want to change your plea to any of those charges? >> no. >> so you want to plead that you're not guilty? >> yes. >> there's video footage of you admitting that you swung at the officer. >> why did you -- >> i'm sorry, i didn't mean to. >> why? but why? >> i was angry. i was angry. >> you stated that you were mad because you were placed in lockup and that you were happy that you did not hit him in the face. do you remember that? >> yes, i remember that. >> do you take any type of medication? >> yes, i do. >> what do you take? >> nothing at the time. >> is that because you're refusing? your medication? >> no, i haven't seen a doctor. >> so if we make you an appointment, will you be willing to go? >> no. >> so you'll continue to act like this? >> yes. >> we're offering you help and you're refusing to take the

help, so your behavior, you're telling us you're going to continue acting out the way you are. you don't seem remorseful for anything you've done. >> all right. so that's it. any other questions? >> no. >> thank you. you'll hear something later today. have a good day. >> as silk is escorted back to his cell, officer henderson attempts to reason with him. >> you want to get help for that stuff. you know what i'm saying? you don't want to keep getting into altercations and all that stuff. you know what i'm saying? you know as well as i know that this medication is going to help you. going to go through this door over here. >> meanwhile, the disciplinary board comes to a quick decision. >> the board has found inmate silk guilty of all charges and are recommending 60 days in disciplinary isolation. >> back in the isolation of the segregation cell, silk does have someone he can confide in. >> what's up, dude? this is crazy.

>> his neighbor is gary valentine who's in segregation pending an investigation into a shank that has been linked to him. >> there's a hole in my wall that it goes all the way through to the other side and i've been talking through that hole. it's kind of hard, the things i've been through and the things i've seen. >> like i told you, you're the only one that can change that. nobody else. >> right. >> i mean, come on, i got a 22-year-old son. he ain't ever been trouble a day in his life. for that, i'm grateful. it breaks my heart and i see a bunch of young kids like yourself. >> i feel like i'm stuck in this lifestyle and another part of me wants to do positive and go back to school and go to college. >> it's not too late, bro. you're 18. you've got your whole life. >> right. coming up -- >> telling me i'm being charged with possession of a weapon i didn't even have in my possession. here i'm going to get charged

for it. >> quit being a baby, man. man up. >> other inmates press james dean to confess. and -- >> i got to be out there to be able to talk to my mom. i got to be out there to talk to my relatives. >> ronald wells struggles to cope with life in segregation. 7 socks and 6 weeks of sleep but one thing you don't want to lose is any more teeth. if you wear a partial, you are almost twice as likely to lose your supporting teeth. new poligrip and polident for partials 'seal and protect' helps minimize stress, which may damage supporting teeth, by stabilizing your partial. and 'clean and protect' kills odor-causing bacteria. care for your partial. help protect your natural teeth.

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possession. here i'm going to get charged for it. >> quit being a baby, man. man up. >> dean is only a few weeks away from completing his sentence. but his release will be jeopardized if the jail finds him responsible for the shank. and choose to file new charges. the decision will rest largely with the results of the disciplinary hearing. >> do you want to give your explanation on what's going on? >> can i give you my statement? >> go ahead. >> let me start off by saying i'm a kitchen trustee and my job is to clean up the whole kitchen front to back, wall to wall, ceiling to floor. when cos ask, i also help in the stock room, when staff or co is present in the stockroom. now this piece of wood as you guys referred to as a shank was found in the stockroom by an inmate, gary vail tine in front of co staff of the kitchen. at the end of the day we was briefed about them finding it and said someone need to fess up or the whole kitchen will turn around and be fired. on the way to my pod, inmates on "d" pod started to yell and

scream to me to take the blame, dean, you only have little time left and we don't want to get fired or lose our positions. i then said, no, i'm not because it was not minor did i use it ever. i know the consequences for something like that. i would never jeopardize your trustee job or my release date over a piece of wood that looks like a shank. >> but the officer who was working in the kitchen that day disputes dean's claims he's only in the stockroom under staff supervision. >> there was several times back there during a meal you tried to pop back there for some reason, i don't know, not knowing i was back there. when you saw me, sometimes you stopped in your tracks, turn around, go away. sometimes you make up excuses to why you're going back there. i need a mop, i need a broom. >> that's when i would go back there. no other reason, maybe to get some food out of the cooler, something to eat. >> we may look into this a little further and then we'll only to a conclusion, recommendation. okay? >> yes, sir. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> while the officers

deliberate, dean is taken back to his cell in segregation. later, officer may comes to his cell to deliver their verdict. >> i wanted to let you know you are a do not return to the kitchen and the warden gave you 15 days for the major disruptive conduct. he threw out the -- we all threw out the charge of possession of a weapon. so you can rest easy on that. >> the ruling means dean will spend his final days at cuyahoga county in segregation for not being truthful about never entering the stockroom unsupervised. but he will not face new criminal charges for the shank. >> thank you very much and i appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> mr. henderson, thank you, sir, i appreciate that. >> i'm excited. i'm excited to have this finally done and over with and -- they found me guilty of major disruptive conduct which i don't understand that but i'm not

going to sit there and question it. you know, i got an out date, it's the 19th. i'm going to go home. i'm happy. thank you so much. >> take care. >> rest easy. >> how you doing, sir? >> for dean, time in segregation is a small sacrifice for going home as scheduled. ronald wells, however, is facing serious robbery and home invasion charges and could have a long stay here as his case works it way through the courts. he's in segregation for possibly plotting an escape attempt and is anxious to get out. >> i got to be out there to be able to talk to my mom. i got to be out there to talk to my relative and all of that, so by me being in the hole, as you can see, like, i can't do none of that, like nothing works in my favor. >> wells' latest problems began when jail officials received a letter claiming to be from a family member warning that wells was planning an escape.

when investigators listen back to a recent phone call to his girlfriend, their suspicions grew deeper. >> they come get me, break out of this bitch. >> wells insists he was only joking. >> i was very upset because i feel like they know if you're serious or if you're not. they know what's really going on and what really ain't going on. for them to barge in the room like that and make that situation that serious i think that that was, like, way kind of absu absurd. >> wells thinks because he's accused of robbing patrons at the horseshoe casino, a high-profile attraction, his case puts him in an unusually negative light. >> they want to make sure they set examples and don't want tourists and people to come to cleveland, ohio, and enjoy a good time at the casino. >> but investigator may says the jail can't afford to treat talk of escape as a joke.

>> there are two things that we take really seriously, escape is one of them and suicide is the other. so the necessary precautions we have to act on them immediately, you never know. >> in the course of his investigation, sergeant christopher interviewed wells' mother, who said she had no knowledge of the letter. >> she didn't have any information from any other family members that indicated that they would have written such a letter, and she also said that she didn't believe anybody in her family would have written that type of a letter. so, the mother said that he does have a lot of enemies on the street. >> he also spoke with wells' girlfriend about the incriminating phone call. >> she did not remember wells making that statement, said if he did make that type of statement it may have been in a joking manner. it did appear that it was made in a joking fashion, didn't really seem to be a valid type of escape threat. >> okay.

so, we're clear with that, we're all done with that as an investigation. >> tuck your shirt in. >> though wells has been cleared of the escape charges, he won't be taken back to his original housing unit, rather, he will be kept in a smaller unit where inmates can be better monitored, and for wells, that's good enough. >> i feel good. i feel good. it feels good to be out of that hole. it feels like coming home, getting released. escaping from the county jail, it ain't gonna happen at all, definitely not by me. i won't even say that on the phone. when i get on the phone, i'm going to tell my girl, we can't talk like that no more. what's up, baby? [ laughter ] oh, my. my lawyer called you and told you? i love you, babe. so, for all the youngsters that's watching, this ain't what's up. this ain't what you want to do

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i can't wait to get back to my parent institution. and i said, what is a parent institution? when he explained it to me, i just went, wow. they're really stuck on being incarcerated. they have the luxuries, all the comforts of, i guess home, and that blows my mind. when he said that when i got home, i hugged my mom and my dad, i said, wow. >> lawrence silk's eventful stay at the jail has come to an end. convicted of aggravated theft, he was just put on a bus headed for the state prison that will now become his parent institution. >> silk rode out this morning. i picked him up, i transported him down to classifications to ride out. he said he wanted to get his life together. this is his last trip. said he wanted to get his ged, get his education.

when he get out, he'll be looking to do something, try to do something. >> silk's former neighbor, gary valentine, is only ten days away from finishing his sentence for failure to pay child support. he will spend much of that time hard at work in the jail's kitchen. after he found a shank several days earlier, staff placed him in segregation until they were convinced it didn't actually belong to valentine. >> after the investigation, i was found not having any involvement, i guess. back to my trustee status, back to work. it just really sucked. the only thing was not knowing what's going to happen, you know. you get interviewed. then after that, you don't know what the hell's going on. i just need to finish my last ten days out. >> james dean has vowed to never return to jail and is just moments away from his latest shot to make good on that

promise. >> i am excited! i'm not going to jump with joy until they cut this band off and they walk me out the door, because then i'm going to be happy. long process, you know? i'm trying to speed it up. i'm ready to get out of here, man. this is killing me. >> the process of leaving jail is not a quick one. >> thank you. >> justice jail staff can take no risks when it comes to inmates joking about escape. they also can't risk releasing the wrong inmate. >> when it comes time for you to be released out of here, not only do we ask questions to make sure we have the right person as far as dates of birth, socials, we do a retina scan also to make sure we have the right person that we're supposed to be releasing, and it should coincide with the paperwork that we have. >> please look into the mirror. thank you for your cooperation. >> beautiful, sir. take all your stuff, walk straight to the property right

there. see the officer right there. >> i need your arm band, sir. >> oh, man, that's a relief. >> here's your property, remain sealed until you get downstairs, okay? >> yes, sir. >> thank you and good luck. >> thank you. what's going on, man? oh, yeah, freedom right here, baby. ♪ >> bye, y'all. so long! ♪

due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> he grabbed the broom. i took it from here. >> an inmate with a reputation for trouble takes on a no nonsense warden. >> i run this jail. you gave me the right. >> it's very rare that you see an older person came into a facility. when she first came into my area, she looked like she was a grandmother figure.