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they go behind the walls of america's prison and jails. the veins that you've never seen. "lock-up raw." every jail we've ever visited there's usually troublemakers and they make for compelling television. >> come over here and do
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something about it! >> some of the reasons we like to cover these stories is because, one, we get a chance to see how the correctional officers control the troublemakers. each facility has a different strategy on how to do that. >> when i get out on the street -- >> resistance. >> but, also, when we spend enough time with them, we get the peel back some of the layers and we find out there's usually a story underneath. and when we travel to a part of the country with a reputation for cowboys, big oil and wicked weather, we not only found troublemakers, but at the tulsa county jail in oklahoma, where most of the inmates are only charged with crimes, and they're awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases -- >> don't play me, dude. >> we meant sergeant virgil colette and he said he understands why some inmates have a propensity for causing trouble. >> some of these people their coping skill is to act out.
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that's the only way they can get attention to get their issues solved. what are small issues to us are large issues for the inmates. if you have somebody controlling you 24 hours a day, seven days a week, telling you when to shower, when to eat, when you can have the phone, when to do everything. we pretty much control every aspect. little things are important to these people. >> one of the hotbeds for trouble at any james is tjail i department where inmates arrive on their arrest. most go through a lengthy process without incident. during our shoot, kenneth witty was. >> reporter:ed for driving under the influence and illegal possession of a firearm. he was already on probation for various drug and firearm charges. >> he fall into the category of someone that just has poor coping skills. >> while waiting to be proces d
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witty has moved a chair to the pay phone so he can sit while talking. usually that's resolved by a detention officer. >> sir, don't sit in the chair while you're on the phone. put it back. >> you want to go to a holding cell? >> this is kenneth witty. he threw a chair across the holding floor so we're taking him to a holding cell. he was agitated and he's one of the ones that doesn't want to do what he's told to do. >> this officer leads whitey to a holding cell and he continues to resist. >> i pushed him into the wall. he continued to resist and we placed him on the floor and we placed him in hand restrantds. >> he continues to struggle all the way to the holding cell. >> we had him lay down where we can is have him stay on his belly and we shut the door for our safety so they don't get up and try to spit on us or kick us
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or whatever they think they might want to do. >> that was eight months earlier. since then, witty had become a well-known inmate at tulsa county but his days here were numbered. he had been convicted on charges of driving under the influence and illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to ten years. during our shoot he was awaiting transfer to prison. >> he had a problem child from the word "go." >> the sergeant supervises the jail's segregation unit where he spent is majority of his time due to a lengthy disciplinary record. >> it's colorful, let me put it that way. >> i need meds. >> mostly, the problems that i've had with him is his disrespect. >> go put ashirt on. >> no. >> he tends to be vulgar. always agitated. he doesn't really listen. he wants things when he wants them and you tell him you got to wait and he starts to scream. >> he goes from zero to 150 in .
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2.1 soakeds. he -- 2.12 seconds. he had no medium ground. >> when it came to speaking with us he took on a different demeanor. >> what's your last name? >> witty. >> it fits me. >> when i first started dealing with kenneth, i found him to be very much like a child. he was very funny. he was very sarcastic. he was very much the clown. but he also, like a child, lacked impulse control. he could act out in a heart beat negatively if he didn't get what he wanted. >> one technique witty used to get his way is known as taking the bean hole hostage. >> bone hole is how we give inmates their clothes, cuff them up. inmates sometimes when they're agitated they'll hold their hostage and we're not allowed to shut it because we could risk
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slamming their arm or hand in the door. >> how many times have you taken the bean hole hostage. >> a few. but the thing is, i take it when i'm trying to make a point. >> we were filming in the seg unit and we started hearing the commotion and it turned out to be kenneth witty holding his bean hole hostage because he wasn't getting toilet paper. >> staff say he remove hed i roll because he was borrowing rolls from other inmates and hoarding them. >> i took two [bleep]ing roms. the other night, snot was running into my mouth and i needed toilet paper. the snot was running from my mouth on to my face. >> come on, whit.
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>> a lot of what isn't necessarily always seen on our show is all of the other stuff that's going on. the one officer in seg is dealing with all the other inmates in that unit. and there's a tremendous amount to do. he wasn't saying he wasn't going to give him the toilet paper but before he could leave to get it he had to shut the bean hole door. >> the deputy comes over to assist with the situation. >> whitt, put your arm in there. >> i need a roll of toilet paper. >> i've been asking for toilet paper all day. why do i have to be. one that waits. >> if i could get some toilet paper would that do for now. >> my allergies have been killing me for the last four days. i've been blowing my nose every 15 minutes. half a roll or something like that. >> all right. i'm going to close it up and i'll go get you some paper. >> appreciate it, man. >> all right. >> i don't want to remind you i
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don't want to seem like i'm going over you. this is your pod. he's one of your more troubled ones. more verbal ones, you know what, let's go ahead and do it now so you don't have to waste your time later. >> i'm going to give this to you. no issues for the rest of the night, right? >> i'll be on my bed. >> you do that. >> we have to be here, right? that's aonly way you get any respect around here. >> that's all you got? >> that's right. >> appreciate it. >> no problem. all good now! >> my nose is dry. >> he's going to remain in seg. i'm not going to deal with him anymore. i do not have the time to. >> witty says causing problems for saf is just part of the natural order. >> it's like cat and mouse. your job is to stop us. >> i like your haircut.
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>> thank you. thank you . coming up, what did you do to break out of a window. >> kenneth witty commits a criminal act inside the jail. and another tulsa troublemaker performs another unauthorized plumbing job. quit smoking. it's a non-nicotine pill. chantix reduced the urge for me to smoke. it actually caught me by surprise. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix. don't take chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these, stop chantix and see your doctor right away as some could be life threatening. tell your doctor if you have a history of heart or blood vessel problems, or if you develop new or worse symptoms. get medical help right away if you have
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one of the most common phrases we hear. you have to give respect to get respect. at the tulsa county jail, in inmate says he's given up on that concept. >> i've been this this county almost two years now and they just, when you're respectful and things like that they take advantage of you. >> he had recently pled guilty to shooting with intent to kill. he was awaiting transfer to prison to begin a 12-year sentence.
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we first encountered him as he was being transferred to a new housing unit. >> we happened to be following a mental health staff member one day as she was visiting the segregation unit and as we were heading toward medical, we saw inmate chairs being brought down. and from that moment, things just kept spiralling. >> he began to threaten that he was going to with you you know, do whatever he could to manipulate his housinging to get put back to where he wanted to be. >> i'm going to have to cause havoc down here. they might as well put me in mitchell. >> he's a may nip lay tore. he does supervisor shopping. this he doesn't get what he wants on one shift with a certain supervisor he'll kwat for a shift chain and then he'll start the same thing and put a spin on it. approach it a different way to get the shift supervisor that's on to move him to where he wants to go. >> we're going to have some problems down here. >> no, we're not, mr. chairs. if. >> so now he is administratively
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confined to segregation until he leaves and he's angry about that. >> according to staff he had recently come from a segregation unit where even though he was confined to his cell 23 hours a day he had friends that looked out for him. >> those guys over there that feed me, basically. he wants to eat good and get commissary and talk all night and basically, have fun. >> okay, then i'm going to find a new cell for you? >> why? >> because you're telling me you're going to break stuff. >> yeah. >> all right. >> i'll break it. >> i'll find a new cell for you. >> quit. >> he just broke it. >> he broke the metal part on the sink. >> i'm kind of filming him on an immediate yum shot and the next thing i know he has the bottom of the sink off and it threw me for a loop because, you know, it just happened. it happened in a matter of less
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than ten seconds he had that sink apart. >> they will find a place but you have to give us a limit bit of time. we have to practice our patience. >> yes, we can. we will figure this out but you're going to move cells in just a minute. >> what cell? >> 14. >> i don't want to be in none of these cells here. >> the things you're doing right now are causing you to move cells. and you know that. >> really, chairs? >> chairs actions would get him moved but not to where he wanted to go. >> come on. cuff up. >> all right. >> are they putting me back in
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my cell? >> you can't handle medical. you trash my medical cell you'll be in i holding cell until i can find one. >> mr. chairs broke the sink and had some metal parts that he was probably going to hurt himself or something with. so they decided to place him in what we call a suicide cell. that's different from suicide watch. just a cell where there's nothing to harm himself or others or break apart or do anything like that. we typically have to do that with those that become a behavior issue and tend to act out a lot. >> what is going on? >> i don't know, man. >> what is this? what is this? i don't know, man. >> he tried to hide a piece of the snooing what is this? -- this is -- >> something like that could be used as a pep. this kind of show what is the staff has to go through on a
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daily basis. these guys are pretty good. if they want to cause harm, they have a lot of time to figure out ways to do it. and that, for me, was a reminder of just how easy somebody could be hurt -- >> what were you doing with the pipe? >> i could do a lot with that pipe. i wasn't doing nothing with it. >> really? you just wanted it as a month m month momento. >> he would smile. it was like he knew what he was doing. >> what pod am i going to? hell no. kwlooish can't why can't i go back to 11? >> with limited housing options, chairs weapons provided a dilemma. he could not be in general population due to his behavior and when more pressing needs came up for the stripped-down
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cell he was in the only option left was to move him back to his wrij natural segregation cell, the one place he wanted to be. >> they put me back in my same cell. >> wow. so the squeaky wheel really does get the oil. you know that expression? >> yeah. >> is that what your whole intent was? >> yeah. it was okay. then i would probably still be in medical right now sitting in that same cell, waiting. >> chairs would not be a problem for staff much longer. two days later, he was transferred to state prison to serve his sentence. coming up -- >> they hate me because of my tattoo. the punk ass police screwed up. noeking, knocking, knocking. >> an intoxicated satanist shows his sensitive side. [ male announcer ] hey, look at you!
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>> we're going to take you -- the take of the selfie! >> but one morning, we arrived at the jail to discover whitey had been more trouble than usual. he used a food tray to smash his cell window after the officer hunt told him to wait to take a shower. >> inmate whit says when i can i go to my shower and i talked him welcome well, i'm not quite sure if you had your shower yet and i can't go by your word. let me talk to my partner and i'll get back to you. i'll be back in 30 minutes. >> he said, it's another 30 minutes. i have to verify you haven't had a shower. >> i'm standing here with dry hair and a dry towel telling you i need a shower. >> i can't go by your word. i'm not going to have you take two showers when everybody else in the facility has had one shower. >> i blew up. i didn't even see it coming. i walked back to the end of my rack and i grabbed my tray off the floor and picked i up and,
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boom. >> how long did it take you to break the window? >> about four hits. >> i'm chunky with little arms, like a yosemite sam figure bout the mustache. there's a lot of strength. in a little guy. >> whitey was charged with a felony for destruction of county property. he was later found guilty and given a one-year sentence that would run concurrently with his ten-year sentence in prison but a new cell didn't correct his behavior. >> have a seat right here. >> a few days later he was given a 15-day us is his phone and commissary privileges. >> eight rolls of toilet paper. multiple crushed pills. dried out orange peels and banana peels. >> what do you do with the banana peels? >> it's herbs on my food.
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the unofficial line is you got to have something to smoke in here and it works. >> i've been in a lot of jails and prisons and blompbt i have heard of people smoking banana peels before and i've heard of orange peels and i think people will try to smoke anything if they think they're going to get a little buzz or a high off of it. >> whitey kept the staff an our team on their toes during our shoot. but then he showed another side. >> when we're filming with inmates, we also do what we call a sit-down interview and that's where we really learn who this person is. when it came to kenneth witty. because he always had and give me a hard time throughout the whole thing. i'm never going to get a serious answer. we were setting up and he was still playing the clown and joking around with everybody as we got everything prepared.
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but when we both finally sat down and it was one-on-one, i was stunned. he became this very calm, somber, self-reflecting person who was very honest. >> roughly, i've spent over half of my adult life locked up. i was running the streets. i learned to pickpocket and steal from stores. i didn't have time to actually sit here and say, i'm going to be a doctor when i grow up or anything. i want to be a astronaut. i was never i believe to think about nothing like that. >> he said in his early teens he joined one of tulsa's street gangs. >> i was about 12 and a half or almost 13 and i learned how to sell drugs. learned how to serious lay provide for myself. i had girls. guns, clothes. i've been stabbed, shot, and training inially i'm tired of it. where has it gotten me? nowhere. >> they label med as a "problem
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inmate." it is hard. but what can i do about it besides try to change my behavior? >> we're thinking about letting him out but that's going to be dependent on my interview with limb. we'll start with that. >> during the course of our shoot, sergeant colette who runs the segregation wrun it in felt it was time to give him a chance to prove himself. allow him back into general population. where he would have more privileges and opportunities to interact with other inmates throughout the day. >> your behavior is not exactly been stellar. okay? let's not beat around the bush on it, all right? we're willing to give you a 72-hour trial in a pod if you want to go to a pod. >> i'd love to go back to the pod. i mean -- >> 72 hours, trial basis. remember my rule of engagement? >> if i got 72 hours if anything
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happens in 72 hours i come right back. >> uh-huh. and how many shots of redemption do you got with me? >> probably one. >> that's right. >> so you chill out. put a mouth filter on. you know you need one. >> i do. >> as many issues he's had, he's never assaulted a staff member. that's the big thing i look for. if he assaults a staff member, then he's one of our true bad people that need to be in seg. >> trial basis he knows that if he goes, this is it. the last hurrah. he loses he loses everything. he comes back in here he gets absolutely nothing. he gets a roll of toilet paper, a blanket, a mat and his toothpaste and toothbrush. that's it! >> why are we doing this? this kid seems something to reach for as a goal. if i can stay out 72, okay, well
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i stayed out of seg for 72, maybe i can go longer. and it becomes a game to them and they get preoccupied with it and all of the sudden we changed our direction mentally with these inmates mentally for looking what i can do to get in trouble to -- i've made it this far and i'm out of seg let's see how far i can go without going ban in and he's well aware of the fact when he comes back in he'll lose everything. >> you said "when?" >> yes, i said "when." i give him a month. i hope he proves me wrong. i give him about 30 days and it will be all over with. coming up -- 666, i got an upside down cross. demon pride on my neck. >> the challenge of being a satanist in the heart of the bible belt. and -- >> these are going the other way. he's more than nervous. >> kenneth whitey's saga in
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during our extended stay shoot at the tulsa county jail, one newly-arrested inmate caught our attention because he appeared to be anything but religiously conservative. >> we were filming in the booking area of the jail and i saw a guy with 666 written across his head in tattoos all over his face and he looked like he might be an interesting candidate for lock-up. >> dude, i'm not on [ bleep ]. i'm not on nothing, dude. i'm not. >> he was being pretty loud and it definitely casing commotion back there. i wasn't sure what was going on. >> roger wood had been arrested on a charge of public intoxication. >> i haven't been drinking, i haven't. and you're judging me, dude. >> i'm not. >> because of what i look like. >> tracy came over to me and said -- there's a very interesting looking guy who's being booked in right now. >> i kind of noticed he latched on to brian. he was looking for someone to hear his story so first he. >> they were trying to pick on me, below. they hate me because of my
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tattoos. these punk ass police. knocking, knocking, knocking. >> he was acting out and he was squaring or being belligerent at the arresting officers. >> you arrested me for no reason. >> but it was his looks. >> i'm a satanist. >> we're this tulsa, oklahoma, and we're at the heart of the bible belt. this man with all these tattoos attributed to satan all over his face and neck and he was just acting in this very bizarre way. >> got to have an answer. why am i so fascinated by these things? >> who cares what they think? they'll never understand me. >> malice makes me this way. malice! that's what makes me this way.
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>> this was not his first arrest. now 31 years old he had numerous days in jail and prison since age 18 on convictions ranging from assault to burglary. >> i always wanted handcuffs off. >> are you drinking today? >> no. >> i just ain't brushed my teeth in a week, bro. >> all right. did you walk through the metal detector and have a seat on the front? >> can you get me a sack lunch? >> in a second. >> walk through there. >> through the metal detector. have a seat on the front row. >> after being searched, it was time for wood to have his booking photo taken. >> you saw to take a picture? >> look at the camera. >> right there. >> and then when i saw him having his intake photo taken, he rolled his eyes back this his head. i said, we have something here, visually. the story was yet to be told but i felt visually, we're good. >> but woods time in booking was
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not complete. as he awaited his cell assignment he grew agitated and threw a chair at another man in the waiting area. officers subdued him and took him to a holding cell commonly known as the drunk tank to sober up in isolation. >> when we visited with wood the next day, we confirmed it was okay to have filmed him and he agreed to talk with us about what brought him to this point. >> tell me this. what's your future? >> i just want a life like everybody else. be able to, you know, want to be able to own a nice car, a real nice house and instead of living in the projects. >> i was pleasantly surprised by the sober roger. he was so outlandish the night before when he was intoxicated that when he sat down to have the interview, he was very calm. >> i'm a satanist.
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you know? everything about the christian bible. i don't believe god is real. >> how did you find this believe system some. >> well, i got tired of my dad and everything. me and my dad have the bestest relationship in the whole wide world and he likes to preach so, i mean, he's a southern baptist. i turned into a satanist. i didn't tell my mom and dad about it or nothing and i went ahead and they found out one day especially when i got the ta toos. i can't come home because -- he's missed. >> 666, i got a upside down cross. demon pride on my neck, you know. i got them all over me. i got 38 of them. >> you live tulsa, oklahoma, in the heart of the bible belt. >> uh-huh. >> and you walk around like this? >> oh, yeah. i like it. >> why? >> because it's different from everybody. it just helping me be myself and
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it's lonely. i hardly can talk to people and man, i want to talk to somebody today and you never get to talk to people because no one wants to hang around you because of what you look like. >> i would die for these tattoos if i have to. they are my religion but i have to be respectful of my religion. i got to stand up for it. >> more than anything, he was kind of a sad guy. and he had gone to such great lengths to have this very scary expeer your a exterior. when i talked to him about his future, he wanted these typical things like a house and car and i said, don't you want to get married? children, marriage, anything? and his response was very sad. >> no. >> why? >> i'm not going to get married. >> why?
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>> because i'm afraid of my feelings getting hurt. if she dumps me then i'm like -- oh, man! >> so you're this hard-core guy who is a satanist but you don't want to get married because you're afraid of getting hurt? >> you can't find a nice satanist girl is this. >> i've been looking all over the place and haven't found one. >> maybe tulsa, oklahoma, is not the place. >> i'm beginning to think that. want to get out of here. >> he got out a couple of days later. and then he was sentenced to time served. >> are you going back to prison? >> no. >> you are? >> all right. bro, i'll keep in contact with you, bro. >> sign your bond. take care of yourself and don't come back. >> all right. y'all, take it easy. >> coming up, kenneth whitey winds up back in segregation.
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>> at the tulsa county jail, kenneth whitey was regarded by staff as one of the jail's better-known troublemakers and we got a small taste of that ourselves. >> kenneth was always messing with me and in one way or another, whether it be that i was doing a walking shot and he would start off on a nice pace and i would be backing up and then he'd slowly start to increase his speed and i would try to stay with him. >> you're going to have to learn to back up faster, brian, for real. >> come over here. >> start running. >> he would laugh. >> it didn't bothd they are me because it's part of his schtick
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and i went with it. >> right here and we're playing hand ball. if your camera gets broke i want y'all to sin waivers so we can't held liable because i know that's spenive. >> he would go out of his way to prevent us from doing what we needed to do so he could be very exhausting for me. >> susan is going to be mad about that. >> and i did 2350i7find myself number of occasions, chastising him and trying to keep him in line. he was like a wild puppy and i had to come on like this mom figure sometimes and say, stop, you need to stop. >> uh-oh, mother heard that one. i'm not disrespecting nobody. >> he wanted some can dad shots so i'm showing him my finger that's [ bleep ]ed up. >> since the day he arrived, whitey had proven to be a hand handful for detention officers. >> model inmate. i'm a model -- i'm not even a
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model inmate. i'm a model criminal. >> but during the course of our shoot in tulsa, whitey was given a chance to be, if not a model inmate, at least one that could live outside the confines kocon disciplinary segregation. >> when sergeant colette let whitey out of segregation and back to general population -- >> 72 hours, trial basis. you know my rule of engagement. >> if anything happens in 72 hours i come right back. >> uh-huh. >> he said 72 hours. if you keep your nose clean then we'll see what happens. but if you don't, you're back in here for the rest of your stay. and so we visited with whitey. 72 hours later and he was very proud of himself. i made it through the 72 hours. everything is good. >> how are things going for you in general population? >> it's come. i'm done with my 72 hour trial period so i'm going the raise some hell today. >> we looked at each other.
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wait, wait, young that's what sergeant colette meant. >> remember what he said. >> he said i had 72 hours as long as i made it 72 hours in general population i get to stay. if i got in trouble i had to go right back and i wasn't getting out. i made it my 72 hours so i can raise hell now. >> if you get in trouble you go back to seg forever. >> not necessarily. >> i think that's -- >> this wasn't the deal. that's not the deal that i -- >> i found that cop comical in compete whitey fashion that he would look at that word for word 72 hours and thought once that 72 hours is over everything is back on. >> that wasn't -- you guys heard wrong. >> whitey held his destructive side in check when sergeant colette came to the unit later that evening he found whitey's actions a bit suspicious. >> interesting. >> what? >> whitey is going the other way. and up the stairwell.
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>> i would say he's a little more than nervous. he's like, i'm getting the hell out of here. >> how are you doing in here? >> i love it. >> behaving or not getting caught. >> a little bit of both. >> at least your honest, that's what i want. >> at least i'm honest. >> i always told you, be honest about it. don't be a fool about it. you think you're aware of the fact by now you won't win in here. >> you can't win. if you win it won't be jail. >> for several days whitey stayed out of trouble and then he did something that surprised everyone. >> i got a call from the midnight shift sergeant and he explained to me that mr. whitey wanted to go back to seg out of fear of either having to get in a fight with somebody or having to fight one of our detention officers or some kind of physical altercation he didn't want to get into.
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>> when we found out that kenneth witty had put himself back into segregation i think we were all a little surprised. obviously i wanted to talk to him as soon as possible. to see what motivated the change. >> what happened? >> i went to visit yesterday and i come back and it was like $50 at the commissary and i could feel myself at that boiling point. instead of fighting with a bunch of [ bleep ] i told them to put me back in segregation. >> obviously, he learned some things that getting in a fight in here won't get you anything than more trouble than what you bargained for. >> he was placed on cool-down status meaning he could return to general population when he felt his anger under control. >> you all right? >> all my stuff in there? >> tell me, tell me, tell me. what's going on? >> i told them i was coming to a breaking point. i'm ready to go back.
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i'm not trying to catch a write-up. >> okay i told him to make sure. it was kind of like a time-out, basically. >> right. >> it was a self-initiated segregation on your part. which i applaud that. imimpressed with your self-cool and your check. the old kenneth has been onlike, y -- on, like, tomorrow. now you're thinking about what you're doing. when you think you're ready you let me know. okay? and we'll put you back out when you think you're ready. >> all right. appreciate it sergeant colette. >> i'll let you out, man. >> all right. >> wow, that's impressive. had that been the old mr. whitey he would have started swinging and word "consequences be damned" he would have done
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whatever he wanted to do. he's come a long way since he has been here. now if he can continue, well, maybe we're on a well on our way to a road to rehabilitation. >> i'm happy to be in segregation with the knowledge that sergeant colette said when i'm calm and ready, i can go back. >> i'm not going to save the world but if i can get one or two of these guys in here to stop and think about what they're doing before they do it, i've done something. >> kenneth is it possible i'm seeing you grow up? >> i think so. >> coming up -- >> a number of emotions that go with this right here. hunger, arousal, love. lust. >> kenneth whitey displays his passion for food and for his new fiance'. >> my one and only baby girl. from this day forward i vow to make you my world. thank you daddy.
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inside the tulsa county jail, kenneth whitey seemed to be adjusting well to general population, staying incident-free for several days. when he felt an angry outburst coming on he requested to return to his segregation cell. officers praised whitey's restraint and told him when he felt ready he could return to general population. whitey seemed consent as long as he had money for the commissary's sugary snacks. >> i noticed tlous his four months his weight gain. he had a great attitude about it. >> it takes a lot of work to be this [bleep]ing vesexy. straight up. >> one item he said he could not resist. >> in all the different jails and prisons we see honey buns. they are a coveted item but whitey loves his more than other
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people did. >> i want cookies. >> kind of like a soaked frosting for the honey bun. once the oatmeal is fully cooked i'll throw in the peanut butter and crumble up the snicker's bar and take the cloefr hivery hilln and place the snicker's throughout it. evenly put it throughout the olt mooel peanut butter frosting and, bam! there's a number of emotions that go with this right here. hunger, arousal. love. lust. >> it's amazing. i can feel the clouds beneath me right now. and my cholesterol building i
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got to do the truffle for the camera. hey, look, when i first came to jail, you could read my tattoos on my stomach straight across. now it's like a banner. >> we would soon learn that his decision to return to segregation rather than lash out at the inmate he had problems with, didn't have anything to do with losing commissary privileges. it had everything to do with not wanting to lose visitation privileges. >> the motivating factor for kenneth to move back into segregation and to stay out of trouble was he had found love. >> i just got engaged like four days ago. >> what? >> yeah. >> oh! >> this girl, amanda. she's coming to see me on
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saturday. >> kenneth whitey. >> we've known each other two inform, three weeks at the most. >> i talked to one of my female friends and he talked to me one time. after that, it was just like love at first sight. the love on the phone more than anything. >> i can get 1015 kenneth whitey for a noncontact visit. >> he called me and said, i want to ask you something. would you spend the rest of my life with me and my exact words were, yes. and. >> i miss you baby, so much. >> mi' amour. from this day forward i vow to make you my world. never again will you fight your battles alone. i'll make you as happy as i can for the rest of my life. i'll buy you a ring and make you my wife. i'll never do anything to hurt you or make you cry. i'm a true soldier and i'm in this until i die. this this moment with tears in my eyes i only have one thing to ask. will you stand by me as i stand
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by you for all the days of your life? you made me the happiest man alive and say you'll be my wife? >> yae, i'll be your wife. >> i love you, amanda. >> i'm going to smear my makeup. >> it's okay, baby. you still leek pretty. >> i love you so much. you're on -- until the day aye die. >> if we just did one of those together. >> are you going to be on time for me or am i going to be on time for you? >> either way works for me. i like both. >> i love you. >> it's hard to do time. i've seen people who just lay down and take whatever the system gives them. and i use comedy to keep that from happening to me. >> can i just get naked for the
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cameras? >> i understand i'm in jail. i understand i'm going to prison. but i might as well have some fun. that doesn't mean i think it's a game and i want to keep coming back. a lot of people would assume that because of my attitude but, no. >> i get assaulted by that. he was totally touching my penis. >> tenkenneth whitey is one of favorites. he was a challenge but you spend a lot of hours in jails and prisons and there's a lot of dark stories and dark information coming at you all day long and to kind of lighten it up and deal with someone like whitey who liked to laugh and smile and give everybody a hard time, i enjoyed our time we were able to spend with him. >> make sure this doesn't go on there. get the camera out of here.
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1 when they tried to beat the odds on the outside, they wound up on the inside. >> in the process of starting the fire my best friend ended up catching himself on fire and he died in the process. >> so they've taken on the roles of jailhouse preacher. >> no matter where we are we need to be serving god. >> poet. >> if i were a free man, i'd whisk you away. we'd be on the lam but on the way.

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