>> on the ground! >> that's the way you can handle situations in here. you got to fight. >> she got a broken eye socket. i put her in infirmity for eight days. >> i chase after a court officer and they said i hit one of them and kicked one and spit on him. >> for those inmates all too willing to throw a punch, the jail has s a special place. >> the boss. >> the box! >> separated from everything so

you learn to deal with it. it's called the box way. . boston, massachusetts, is by any standard a world-class city. but ever since its colonial days some have called it a fighting town and located in the heart of the city is a place for anyone who does their fighting outside a ring. >> step inside, gentlemen, back to the wall, please. >> more than 12,000 people a year pass through the doors of boston's suffolk county jail. though the jail also holds inmates who have already been convicted and are serving short sentences, most arrive here having only been accused of a crime. if they don't make bail they

will stay until their cases are resolved. for some, that time can be measured in months if not years. >> traveling two to five, one in restraints. >> we're not necessarily housing people -- very violent crimes or people with completely non-violent crimes but it's a maximum security facility. if you're one of the non-violent ones, it's something you need to get used to. >> with an average daily population of 2,700 male and female inmates, someone reaches their boiling point virtually every day of the week. >> on the ground! >> put her back in her room. >> most common violation is fighting. it's common for detainees to fight over rivalries and gang differences. people get transferred into new units or new inmates come in, detainees come in and they go right at it and they end up here. >> "here" is the segregation

unit where inmates are placed after fights or other serious disciplinary violations. other than toiletries and legal papers, they are not allowed personal property and are locked in their cells 23 hours a day. while segregation is officially known as the 61 unit, inmates have another name for. >> it the box. >> get back, get back. >> it's held on earth. >> the box sucks! >> a lot of times when you go to the 61 unit you'll hear a lot of screaming "i'm going to kill you, i'm going to get you." these people really do not like each other. and they will take every opportunity to tell whoever is listening how much they don't like somebody else. >> unlike some segregation inmates, dan espinoza usually keeps quiet, especially about the fight that earned him 30 days here. it happened the night he was arrested, but he says he doesn't

remember a thing about it. >> from what i was told, i chased after a court officer when i was being cuffed up. they said i hit one and kicked one and spit on him. >> he came in severely inebriated of some sort, whether it drunk, drugs, something or other but he was definitely under the influence of something when he came into our facility. >> espinoza had been arrested on charges of larceny and shoplifting and was in court to enter a plea but his behavior prevented that. instead he was taken directly to the segregation unit. fortunately for him he wasn't charged for his alleged abusive behavior and later pled not guilty to his original charges. he blames his problems on his abuse of prescription drugs. >> i was on klonopins, felony pills, yeah. >> felony pills. why do you call them felony pills. >> because every time i take them i get felonies.

i fell when i was in the iron workers' union and tore my knee up, had my knee reconstructed and i was on vicodin, percocet and it eventually led to heroin. i've been doing heroin a little over ten years. >> reporter: espinoza said he sported his addictions by shoplifting and then would sell them in ethnic neighbors. >> i would grab jeans, grab like a rack of them, go to the italians, puerto rico for the clothes, go to the chinese for the electronics or watches. >> if convicted of his current charges, espinoza could face several years in state prison. >> sad to say but maybe it's what i need. >> while espinoza's legal future is still uncertain, his time in segregation is drawing to a close. he's about to be transferred to general population. >> tomorrow i get out thank god,

get to play in the big box again. out of the little box into the big box. i hate the little box. >> like espinoza, daniel also aspires to be placed on the general population unit. >> because you get to mingle with the crowd. i've never been apart. only time i was there was in newman. i was in newman for like two weeks. >> what happened. >> fight? >> everybody fights, right? that's the only way you can handle situations in here. you've got to fight. if someone says something to you or if you've got problems you have to act on an issue. if you don't, they will. it's a jail thing. >> 16 months ago, esdale was convicted of possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years at the house of correction. a separate suffolk county jail

facility for convicted inmates serving two and a half years or less. due to multiple fights, he spent the first 13 months in segregation. but even under those restrictions, he was still a significant disciplinary problem. >> daniel has gotten into my m fights since he's been here. he's been involved in about ten fights. there's a lot of fights that he has actually asked or called to happen so he's been involved in a lot more behind the scenes than he's actually been involved in. >> if someone's arguing with a co, i'll be in the background amping them up. just you know [ bleep ] that. sometimes i like when people yell. i like all that [ bleep ]. >> why? >> it's just -- i don't know. it's just fun to me. i just enjoy that. i like all the commotion and stuff like that. >> while esdale thrives on commotion outside his cell, inside is a shrine to order. >> that's my rug. it's a blanket but i use it as a

regular to keep them off the floor, make it more like home. that's my cosmetics, each toothbrush has its own toothpaste that way you don't get it mixed up. sounds funny, sounds weird, but that's the way i do everything. same thing with deode rants. one day i'll pick up one, one day i'll pick up the other. you don't just use the same one. two of everything because you don't want to use all one thing. >> there's another unique aspect to esdale's current living situation. due to his fighting or egging on of other inmates, jail officials decided to house him in an area where other inmates would be less likely to respond to him. >> lunchtime, gentlemen. >> we decided to remove him from segregation and put him in the infirmary where he wasn't with other people that he could incite or to ask to start a fight if he couldn't do it himself. >> this is the infirmary. this is medical. this is where sick people come down here. so they said if i come down here

and maintain good behavior i get a detail. detail you clean the unit, pass the trays out. then if i do well in detail i can go back to population. >> many the meantime, esdale says he's try to make the best of his work detail and life in the infirmary. >> got a tv in the cell. i never even thought i was going to see a tv in the joint let alone in my cell. i got a tv in there, little razzle dazzle. work out, write letters. sometimes talk to yourself. >> what do you say to yourself? >> everything i want to hear that. 's the best thing about talking to yourself, you can hear anything you want. >> coming up, an inmate mick named smiley deals with her troubled past. >> i punched a lieutenant in the face. they gave me assault and battery on a lieutenant police officer. in the nation, it's not always pretty. but add brand new belongings from nationwide insurance...

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we got tuna today for lunch. got no choice but to eat it. back to our cells after this. >> everyday in here's a living held. everyday. ain't no sunshine in this jail. >> there is some sunshine in boston's suffolk county jail -- at least on the open air recreation decks. depending on their security level, inmates are allowed out for an hour or more of rec each day. during bad weather, recreation is taken in housing unit day rooms where inmates work out any way they can. >> got to do pullups everyday, about ten reps a day, ten sets, then i do do my pushups, squats, got to work on the legs.

>> now raise your left arm up. >> over on the women's unit, some inmates aim for a mind-body connection through a more contemplative practice. >> reach, reach, reach with your left arm and bring the hand on to the chair. >> from time to time, the chair allows a volunteer yoga instructor to conduct a class. >> grow like the tree. >> i like it. it's really relaxing and makes your day go by easier. takes away all your stress. >> 23-year-old valerie minacapalli hasn't always been so mellow. she's nearing the end of a 90 day conviction for assault on a police officer. >> i got in a fight with this girl. when they took me to a police station they got rough with me so i fought back and punched the lieutenant in the face so they gave me assault and battery on a lieutenant police officer.

they call me smiley because i'm always smiling. i'm a nice person but don't get in my personal space because it's going down. >> minacapelli proved her point a few days after arriving in jail. she got into a fight with another inmate. >> she got a broken eye socket. i put her in infirmary for eight days. >> the fight earned her a lengthy stay in the female segregation unit. she was released to general population a few weeks ago. >> you're a loser! >> but despite her sometimes violent tendencies, she claims her numerous stays in the suffolk county jail have stemmed from her addiction to cocaine and heroin. >> when i was with my kids i had never did nothing, never did no drugs, never did nothing, i was a stay at home mom. it was good. and then just started racking charges and doing drugs. it was all downhill.

>> she says she turned to prostitution to support her drug habit. her two children, ages five and six, are now in the custody of their father. >> i do write to them. i don't get any mail back from them. i don't get to talk to them on the phone. my family talks to them. he won't let me talk to them on the phone from jail. >> despite the pain, minacapelli has found room for laughter in jail. particularly with her cellmate cindy archer. >> the first night i came in we laugh it had entire night. so hard she was on the floor rolling. it was mad funny. >> i was against the wall slapping the wall and everything. i haven't laugh so hard in my life like that with me and her. >> like minacapelli, archer has struggled with addictions to heroin and cocaine. she's serving one year for prostitution. >> i was street walking, i would go out there and, you know, jump in a car, get the money, but usually i would rob the guys and

take the money out of their wallet, put their wallet back in, they didn't know because i know how to do it. you know what i mean? and i'm grateful i'm not dead by that but that's how i got my mone money. >> when you're high all you want to do is get another hit or if you're dope sick you've got to go get money to get more dope because you're body's aching for it. that's disgusting. when i think about it now, yeah, i'd love to get high but look at the consequences. those were abscesses. when i shot coke i used to miss, it turns to poison, they get bigger, you go in the hospital on antibiotics. i know they look horrible but she's got to be thinking that could happen to her. i could save her from getting these scars. i have them, but the thing is i'm alive and i can still try to help her. don't let her get any further into her addiction, try to

control it now before it gets out of hand like i did. >> like you said, like, about the scars and stuff. like i think about that all the time like when i go in the bathroom i look at my track marks i'm like, wow. you know what i mean? i'm like, look, i just -- >> you're too pretty for that [ bleep ]. >> we don't need to have all these marks and scars on our body and all the things i lost getting high, you know what i mean? it's crazy. but you have to get clean for yourself, you can't do it for other people. >> daniel espinoza has also paid a price for drug addiction. high when he was arrested for shoplifting, he assaulted several deputies during his initial court appearance as a result he spent his first 30 days at suffolk county in segregation but now he's on his way to general population where he will have more privileges and time outside his cell.

>> today i'm getting out of the hole. i'm going to play with the big kids in the big box now. it's pretty exciting. when you go to a new unit, you don't know who's on that unit or whatever. it could be a lot of smoke on the unit so we'll see what's going on. >> 30 days, i get to put a pair of sneakers on. head to my new unit, see what's going to happen. >> 24, door. >> daniel esdale has spent the last four months living and working in the jail's infirmary hoping good behavior would convince jail officials to overlook his history of fighting and grant him a transfer to general population. >> he actually got to a point where he had a detail in medical where he served food to the other inmates and cleaned the

unit. so he came a lot farther than we anticipated him coming. >> esdale finally did get a transfer. but definitely not the one he wanted. he's back in the box. >> i'm in segregation because i had disagreement with the officers. i was told that if i work and behave i can choose where i want to go but then when it came down to it it was like you can't go here, you can't go there, you can only go where we tell you to go. >> he likes to get what he wants. he's very manipulative and yesterday morning had an incident with the juice was leaking and decided he didn't want to serve the juice so when the officer asked them to go into his cell and he was not going to work his detail that day he basically had a little bit of a fit and said i'm not getting what i want so move me out. >> i got agri-separated and i said i'm not doing the juice. why do the work if i'm not going to get what i'm supposed to get out of it.

>> yo! >> he packed up his things, the sergeant asked him what he was doing, he said i'm leaving today one way or the other. so the officer sergeant let it go, later on in the day he was fine but decided to make a comment stating that she needs to make a decision, she needs to -- i think he said grow up and either move me to our work program or move me to the box. and i made the decision and he went to segregation last night. >> coming up -- >> they beat him severely. he passed out at one point in time during the fight. >> a brutal assault brings consequences that could go beyond time in the box. [bell rings]

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credence. after spending 30 days in segregation -- or, as he calls it, the little box -- he had finally been released to what he calls the big box, general population where he had more privileges and time outside his cell. but now just six days later espinoza is on his way back to the little box. >> got in a fight with someone, jumped someone. >> he got involved in a 3-on-1 in which he and two others pretty brutally assaulted another inmate. >> i beat the [ bleep ] out of him. sent him away in a bus. >> what does that mean? >> ambulance. >> like i said, they beat him pretty severely. he passed out at one point in time during the fight. he had bleeding from the ears, i'm not sure what his head trauma was if any. >> the jail normally punishes fighting by placing the participants in segregation for up to 30 days. >> is the clinic available for one to come up from the

altercation on two? >> for especially violent incidents, the jail may also choose to file criminal charges. but first staff will review surveillance video of the fight. >> at that table is four detainees, including daniel espinoza, you can see mr. espinoza looking back to see where the officers' positions and sight lines are. another interesting part is this gentleman who knows the attack is coming, he's vacating the area because he's not going to be a participant. as the gentleman raises his arms, that's the signal to the others that the three-on-one attack is ready and then he strikes the victim and you see mr. espinoza rise from the table with the other detainee who joins in and what ensues is a flurry of punches and kicks to an essentially defenseless detaine detainee. >> if additional criminal charges are filed against espinoza, the most likely charge would be assault and battery, a

conviction could then send him to state prison for up to eight years. >> most people come into the building, they don't want to make what bit they have worse so they generally keep really bad behavior in check on their own for the most part. yeah, there's a lot of fights and everything like that but they're quickly broken up. they don't go too, too far. for a person to pick up a significant charge like this is actually very rare. >> while espinoza's long-term consequences are still unknown, his day-to-day life back in the box is completely predictable. >> i try to sleep until like 1: 1:00, then i get up, read for a while, work out. anything just to make the time pass. you're separated from everything, you know, in the outside world so you learn to deal with it. just call it the box life. >> coming up -- >> it's 13 windows over. >> valerie minacapelli

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205 2052. >> yo, did you find him? >> yup. >> when valerie minacapelli entered boston's suffolk county jail, she not only hit it off with her cellmate, she got a little closer to her fiance. >> my fiance that i've been with for two and a half years this year, i couldn't wait to get up here and try to find him. >> look! >> minacapelli's fiance is housed in the mens' unit on thor side of the jail. luckily enough, she has a perfect view of his cell window. >> 13 windows over on the bottom he has this heart in the window. >> yup. >> it's pink. >> as inmates, minacapelli and her fiance cannot write nor talk to each other on the phone. so now they use a different method to communicate. inmates call it sky writing. >> you write the letters backwards because it's like looking in the mirror for him. you write the word and when you're done you put your hand up like that then you start another word. then i wait for him to reply.

i'm grateful that at least we're doing our time together and we're crossing each other and we can talk to each other and i -- oh, he's got his heart up, yeah! and his hands. oh, my baby, i love him! it's crazy the things love will make you do, right? >> bacon! >> daniel esdale would also be happy to see a friendly face. he recently refused to perform his job detail in the infirmary and became verbally abuse theive to staff. the incident earned him a minor disciplinary ticket and a transfer back to segregation. he's not happy about being back in the box. >> i stare out the window all day, work out and just stare out the window all day and talk [ bleep ] through the doors. what'd you say? >> despite his setback, esdale still believes his four months in the infirmary should have earned him a shot at going back

to general population. he's requested to speak with assistant deputy suspect rochelle steinberg in order to plead his case. >> how you doing? >> i'm all right. >> i've dealt with him for probably the last five or six years, whether it was in classification or my current capacity as assistant deputy superintendent. >> you made a comment to the officer. he's a very smart individual, he's very manilaty, he knows how to play the game. he's a good talker. >> i just want to see if i can get this straight. you're telling me that whole four and a half months i slipped up one time and everything goes down the hill? that's what you're telling me? >> no, you had a choice and you made a choice not to do what was asked of you. >> i just can't -- i don't -- i don't understand, rochelle. i don't understand that because it all started off in the morning about some juice. i didn't want to pour the juice. i had issues going on, too, but everything that was added up, you know what i'm saying?

>> yup. >> but you have to look at the positive side of it, rochelle. you have to look at the positive. he called a ticket but he didn't catch a ticket for threatening to hurt somebody. he didn't catch a ticket for making a whole bunch of noise and kicking on doors. >> i never said you're dead in the water. but you're not going back to medical. >> i am, rochelle. if i get into a fight, doing that. administer me all you want, i don't care. >> i'm not saying you're dead in the water. >> you know i am, rochelle. >> you had a setback, that's all it is. but you need to make sure you're maintaining yourself up here with no issues. >> rochelle, can i ask you a question. honestly. you've asked me ten questions. yeah. >> do you honestly think that what i call a ticket for was real they bad for me? for me? >> the ticket wasn't bad. it's the fact that you were getting escalated so quickly and getting angry over the most minor thing that the next step was what we were trying to avoid. >> i understand that! i wasn't doing nothing aggressive. >> right, i know you weren't --

>> i know i said -- my exact words was this "call rochelle, tell her i need to speak to her, make her [ bleep ]ing decision, grow up" something like that. "make a decision, either send me to c-dub or send know the box." >> right. >> i was aggravated, rochelle. >> i know that. >> and the only way i know how to channel my anger is physically. so instead of me doing that i'm yelling. i'm yelling. >> that's definitely recognized. that was recognized. >> rochelle, to tell you the truth, all jokes aside, i'm not even trying to play with you, you know you got your job, you're the boss and i respect you, you understand where i'm coming from? but you and i both know that usually i wouldn't even care about being iseg. it doesn't matter. but i just feel as though if i just did four months, four months -- >> and that's why i'm saying you're not dead in the water. >> the next step for esdale is an administrative segregation or asu hearing which could determine how long he will

remain in segregation. >> >> you'll most likely b seeing asu tomorrow, yes. >> i'll be there. >> all right. >> i'll be there. >> all right. >> yup. it was nice seeing you, though. >> you too, daniel. >> it's always nice seeing you, rochelle. always going to be good in my book, no matter what. always going to be good. get the [ bleep ] out of here. >> while esdale deals with the consequences of his actions, it's time for dan espinoza to do the same. >> come on, danny. >> he's been called to a disciplinary hearing for a brutal three on one attack for another inmate. a fight jail officials called one of the worst they've seen in years. >> as you know, this could be a big incident so they might end up charging you with this criminally. so before we ask you any questions you must understand your rights. >> since most jail fights are broken up before there is serious injury they are usually handled internally with punishment coming in the form of a stay in segregation. but espinoza's fight was so

violent he could face new criminal charges. >> you have the right to remain silent. >> so espinoza is read his miranda rights prior to discussing it. do you understand the rights as i've read them to you. >> yes. >> all right, so what happened? >> i told him to leave and he didn't leave. >> okay so he didn't leave so you just fought him. why did you tell him to leave, check off the unit? >> because he was -- he stole mr. from letters to the cellmates. >> so you told him to check off and he didn't. why did you assault him so badly? >> i can't answer that question. >> it went on for a while. you guys took breaks. >> i didn't take a brake zblaekly grant you that. turn one that stayed down. the other two were taking breaks. but why so long? you know what i mean? >> i lost concept of time. >> well, basically, you know,

yeah, it's pretty bad. you're probably going do 30. i can't imagine a situation where you wouldn't do 30 in terms of segregation time up here. all right, daniel. thank you. >> but 30 days in segregation could be the least of espinoza's problems. should the d.a. decide to pursue criminal prosecution, if convicted, espinoza could potentially face eight years in state prison. >> was it worth it? >> it's part of being here f here. put me into a cage and i'm going to turn into a beast. that's basically what it's like, you know? that's what i do. >> coming up -- >> what happened? >> i figured? >> you seemed to be spiraling out of control before that, though. >> daniel esdale tries yet again to catch a break. >> daniel's a little bit of a special case. >> i knew it was going to happen. in the nation, it's not always pretty. but add brand new belongings from nationwide insurance... ...and we'll replace destroyed or stolen items with brand-new versions.

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everyday i get up, i have breakfast, i go back to bed until 10:00, i'll get up, have my coffee, take a shower, have to go back in the room from 11:00 to 12:00 until lunch then watch tv during the day, go on the treadmill. >> when it comes to doing time in boston's suffolk county jail, cindy archer is an old hand. this is her 14th stay at the jail and she's learned a few tricks along the way. >> i make eye liner, see? eye liner. >> makeup is considered jail contraband and inmates caught with it could receive a disciplinary write up. so archer has turned to an unusual source as a substitute. >> the black stuff from the window. you put that air grease on it and it activates it to make eye

liner. you activate with the hair grease and then it turns black. it doesn't hurt me, i've been doing it for last ten years. just like real eye liner on the street. nobody can make it as black as me, though. >> during those ten years, archer has been in and out of suffolk county on a variety of petty charges that she claims were fuelled by her long-standing drug addiction. currently she's serving a year for prostitution. the time had been made easier by the presence of her good friend valerie minacapelli, but few things in jail are permanent. minacapelli was released a few days ago. >> you know! >> i miss valerie very much. i called her monday night and she said she was doing okay, she answered the phone, the collect call from me and i talked to her mom, they were doing good, she was so happy that her daughter was home. >> i won't be long before archer can join her friend and she vows it will be the last she'll see of the suffolk county jail. >> i'm getting released in five

days and i'm trying to get to a program and i'm going to stay clean. i'm not gonna come back here. >> archer recently took a small step toward freedom when she was allowed to join the jail's community works program. twice a week the program sends low-security inmates outside the jail to perform public service such as painting and landscaping. >> get out of jail for the day, you go and work a real job, you only get $3 a day, but it's worth it to me because it helps me get through my day and it's getting me back into the real world yourkts know what i mean? >> it's almost like a steppingstone before you get out the door, getting the first year, they're working, seeing the population, seeing people, going to work, children, with their families. it's different than being housed with 30 females. they're actually back in population. it's a gradual thing. >> there's some in the box. >> but i don't think there's any smaller. >> today some female inmates are

headed to a public library to shovel snow! the classification process to get into the community works program is very strict. you can't have escape charges, parole violations, fighting while you're in here. >> the program's director, assistant deputy superintendent heather macneal has known archer for years. >> cynthia archer i've known her since 1991. she was in here with her mother in '91. we're almost working together which is kind of scary. >> we can have a cigarette together. >> no we can not! >> oh, please? >> i'm kidding. wait until friday. >> take a shovel. i got these she has been in and out for so long that this is kind of like home unfortunately. she feels probably safer in here than she does on the street. >> i'm just happy to be doing something. like normal, you know?

>> daniel esdale is also hoping for a bit more freedom. he has five weeks left to serve on his two-year sentence for possession of a firearm. as unlikely as it is, he's still holding out hope that he can serve that time in general population. >> there's still a possibility, like this big, this big, that i might go to pop. i might. i doubt it. >> esdale is currently back in segregation after refusing to perform his job in the jail infirmary. but he sees it as just one small slipup after four months of what was for him unusually good behavior. today he's meeting with jail officials where he will learn what's in store for him. >> i'm going to get administrative because of my history in the bidding. they're not going to let me go to pop because if i go to pop i'll come right back here because i'm going to fight. >> assistant director of claskt cindy walland is in charge ofs

day's hearing. it's not the first time she's seen him. >> how are you doing snowed. >> fine. >> this is not where i wanted us to be. you know that, right? >> yup. z zblds what happened? >> caught a ticket. >> i know you caught a ticket but what -- you seem to be spiraling out of control before that, though. >> yeah, because i kept getting restricted for no reason. >> daniel's a little bit of a special case. he's a special case because of the level of violence that he has shown in our facility. staff assaults, fighting, continuous disruptions, four cell moves and he just doesn't stop. so now we need to move forward. >> i'm going? >> correct, you knew that. so what we're going do is place you into asu probably for the remainder of your sentence. >> no restraints, right? >> correct. we're starting you out on asu no restraint. you came out of the infirmary, it was nothing violent, there's no reason to put you on full restraint. that can be our next step, we

can move further than that if that's the way you want to go out. i hope it's not. you don't have that much time. a little over a month left of this. i hope you can just ride that out and do what you're supposed to. do you have any questions about what is going to happen? >> with what? >> with asu? i want to be clear. >> it doesn't get no better than asu. nothing else can change. i can't go to pop, so no, no questions. >> all right. thank you. >> now, knowing he will spend his last five weeks at suffolk county in segregation, esdale is led back to his cell. >> he's a player. he's the type of inmate who reads you and if you're afraid of him he'll act tough. if you're not afraid of him he won't act tough. >> i knew it was going to happen. >> he doesn't know where his lies begin and his truths end. very compulsive. he likes to keep himself clean. he will beat up a cellmate because the cellmate doesn't keep the cell clean. that's just his personality. >> this is stupid because i knew

this [ bleep ] was going to happen where i can't leave the box. you know what i'm saying? you take a dog out the cage, he i believe ins, he don't even nibble, he barks because you're so used to him biting instead of looking at the positive sign and saying okay, he barked, he didn't bite for a change. he barked, he might bite, let's throw him back in the cage. that's corny. that's how they lock you in a [ bleep ]ing box. look at this, it's a box. at least i know i'm going to be at, though, right? >> while esdale's near future appears settled, cindy archer's has suddenly taken an uncertain turn. she's just returned from her work detail. >> why do they have your bra bra? >> i don't know? i have no idea. >> when we strip searched her just now we found that there was cigarette residue all over her bra that she discarded of,

obviously, and it's all over the bra. it looks like she may have smoked it. >> that was makeup the from the other day. i don't have no cigarettes, believe me. so i don't know what they're talking about. it was only makeup from the other day that was it. that was it. i don't have nothing, they searched me. i don't have nothing. >> having tobacco could delay archer's release. but since officers have only found residue she will not face any consequences. >> where she's leaving friday we'll probably hold her inside. she won't go back outside until she leaves on friday and that will be the end of it because there is no contraband right now in this bra. maybe she doesn't want to leave. maybe she wants to stay. that might be one of the reasons, too. she's afraid to leave here so she's trying to self-sabotage. >> coming up, big developments for three suffolk county inmates. >> oh, so good! i'll just pres, and you'll save on both. ding! ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, llllet's get ready

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[ bleep ] [ bleep ]. inmates at boston's suffolk county jail often refer to the segregation unit as "the box." but for a handful of inmates time in the box does nothing to deter their behavior. >> i can't help it, man, you know? >> in those cases the jail has one other more drastic option, it can transfer them to another jail in a neighboring county. >> we'll accept inmates from other facilities who have issues in their populations and vice versa. what we try to do is give them a fresh start. we'll send the classification department or send individuals out to different counties where their smoke or drama may not be and they see if they can live in population. because we don't want a large contingency of people in our segregation units. it creates more disciplinary problems and we're trying to keep down the violence. if we can stem some of the violence, we do. >> that step has now been taken

with one of suffolk county's most notorious inmates, daniel esdale. >> mr. esdale was transferred to another facility last week. he was here for a long time and i think sort of taking that known identity for him out of it and placing him somewhere elsewhere he's not so well known will be better for him. it was a win-win for both the department and for daniel because he was -- he's given another shot in another county. >> the suffolk county jail has almost been a second home to cindy archer. but today she'll have another chance to put it behind her. >> i'm leaving. i'm going home. i'm getting discharged. >> are you excited? >> yeah, i'm going do the right thing. stay clean. i'm not coming back here. >> what's the first thing you're going to do when you get outside? >> smoking a cigarette. [ laughter ] okay, bye! >> as she is processed out, she gets to exchange her jail

uniform for the street clothes she was arrested in months earlier. >> my pants fit me! can you imagine? >> let's go. >> you know it! >> bye! i will, yeah! oh, my god! oh, my god! this is the best feeling in the world is to get out of jail. i've been here almost ten months on a year. >> you want to go home? >> yes, yes,sir. oh, i'm going home. >> what's your i.d. number? >> 1003514. thank you! my release papers! thank you. >> thank you. >> okay this is my stuff. i'm going outside to smoke right now. >> archer has arranged to stay with an old boyfriend while she gets on her feet. >> i just got out just now. i'm on my way up there, okay? i'll call you when i get there. please have your phone with you. all right, i'll call you in a

half hour, all right? >> i value my life very much now and my freedom, too. i'm going to have to value it everyday when i'm out there. i think about well, if you do drugs it's only going to last for a minute, you're going to get back to the dope, you're going to have a habit, get another case, be down to the infirmary dope sick looking like [ bleep ]. i have the power to change myself. i just got to stay away from all bad things. >> dan espinoza expects to walk out of jail any day now as well. but his freedom is not guaranteed. authorities might still bring criminal charges against him for his role in a three-on-one fight in the general population unit. but a $750 bail has just been set on his original charges of shoplifting and larceny. and he's got the money. >> i'm going to bail out, hopefully i beat this case. the way most of these cases i

have on my record that i've beaten is people don't show up. hoping that happens. when i beat these cases i'm all done. i think i'm going to try the mundane life. >> but espinoza has tried before. >> when i get to a spot where i think i should be, like i have the house, the car, the girl now and everything's great, that's usually when i pick up. i'll start out smoking weed thinking it's okay to smoke weed once in a while and that progression just leads me back to heroin and once i pick up heroin i just look at everything i have and i go "you've probably got like three or four months before this is all gone" and i can't stop until it's all gone. i've been happy, real happy. but sometimes i like the pain. the box life.

>> an inmate defends himself against the violent attack. >> everybody step into your rooms. >> now authorities want to know if he took it too far. >> that's no longer an assault on you, now you're beating the held out of him. >> while another inmate takes creative steps to send his love to the girlfriend he allegedly accidentally shot. ♪ i understand you're