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due to mature subject matter viewer discretion is advised. . >> give me a wheelchair. >> i'm here as inmate doctor as some type of self-inflicted injury to his left arm. >> an inmate takes drastic action and leaves his cell a bloody mess. while another -- >> you want to explain this while you have a homemade key in your property? >> is found with dangerous contraband. >> having a handcuff key is mainly for my defense. >> looking at probably one of the biggest screwups in the united states sitting here looking at you.
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>> an old-timer counts his lessons. >> i lost my father and sister and my brother and my mother and pretty much my whole family has passed away since i've been in here. >> me being homosexual i'm, like, an outcast. i'm scum of the earth here. >> and a younger inmate looks forward to heating the streets. >> thank god it's over. . 56 state prisons for men one is considered the end of the line. the place male inmates go when other prisoners can't handle
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them. the santa rosa correctional institution located on florida's panhandle. >> pretty much predominantly in here you have two emotions. it's anger and fear. okay? now if you go out there acting like an, you know, you're going to get treated like an [ bleep ] if you step out of line you're going to get put back in line. >> except for a few brief periods jack hill has been in florida prisons since 1977. he's been at santa rosa for the past year. >> the one thing this place will do it will do one of two things. and this is not physical. it's all mental. it will either break you down, you will be filled with hate, anger, you know,son they are way is you try to just, you have to stay focused and after a while that comes a habit. you don't think about it. you see a bad situation you try to steer away from it, you know? >> hill is currently one of the more than 2,800 inmates housed at santa rosa.
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>> we have the largest closed management population currently in the state of florida. those inmates are more assaultive and disruptive than the normal population inmates in the state. the close management inmates have proven an inability disobeying orlandoers from staff and the nonrecentive neness the all live under the most restrictive conditions and some handle it better than others
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>> let me go. >> an inmate was discovered bleeding heavily in his cell apparently from self-inflicted wounds. the inmate now being escorted to medical is armando doctor. serving 15 years for aggravated assault with a weapon doctor has been known to cut himself when under stress. >> watch your head. go ahead close the door. >> go ahead close the door. >> stand on your own. >> clean him up. >> we've got you. >> we'll support you. get your foot down. >> did a 10:00 security check and everything was fine in here. about 10:15, 10:20 we heard some
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>> he's kind of noteded for doing things like this. acting out by cutting himself if something doesn't go right for him. >> inmate doctor is very rooted in reality. and what you saw with the slumped over, his very weak voice, i think it's just manufactured to gain attention and to try to send him to a different environment such as our in-patient facilities. >> while doctor received a disciplinary report for the masturbation incident, he will not receive one for cutting himself. >> we don't usually write d.r.s for self injuries behavior. he'll be seen by a psych and checked out and make sure everything is okay. we'll clean his cell up and they'll send him back down to us. >> i wonder what type of weapon he used to cut himself with. whether it's still? the stall or did he throw it on the way out here. it hasn't been recovered.
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sometimes they'll take their batteries, peel the outside label off, shock them on the ground. make an excellent razor. you still have enough handle left to slice at will. go through the walkway here make sure nothing got thrown out. >> he lost a lot of blood. that's a lot of blood. >> carlton williams, serving a five-year sentence for possession of cocaine and fleeing police, works as a houseman or cell block custodian. >> my job is right now cleaning feces, blood, chemical agents. i volunteered to be a houseman just to get game time. i get ten days of rent four months a year for game time. i have 18 months. i have 11 1/2 months left. when i'm in a cell, a room that has blood or anything that's a danger to me or harm to me i
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always be cautious. i tell myself i got to protect myself and don't let none of this stuff get on me. that's why i have this suit and the chemical agents and gloves and whatever else i need. got to be done if i want my game time. i'm getting it over with. go ahead and get on back to the cell. >> cleaning the blood up. it's a lot. it's a lot. this was the first one i ever did where there was that much blood. so i guess i will be more experienced next time. >> cell's been decontaminated now. it's all been cleaned out and bleached. all the bodily fluids removed. what happens once the inmate is bandaged up by medical he's directly sent back down. now, in doctor's case he won't be sent down. have some i.v. fluids put in for the loss of blood. so he'll remain with medical staff probably throughout the rest of the day and then be returned to us tomorrow. but his cell's been decontaminated and it's ready for him to come back.
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>> coming up. >> medical has been notified and is en route. >> officers rush to armando doctor's cell for another emergency. >> i was likedom hoe did it again. >> and -- >> that's made out of metal. that's a homemade cuff key. >> a cell search leads to big trouble for one inmate. and now telcos using hp big data solutions are feeling the love, too. by offering things like on-the-spot data upgrades -- an idea that reduced overcharge complaints by 98%. no matter how fast your business needs to adapt, if hp big data solutions can keep wireless customers smiling, imagine what they can do for yours. make it matter.
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my name is christopher. >> they call me 100. >> we going to go ahead and drop out a new song. hear the beat. hand it out. ♪ if i had a hundred grand, lord that's all i need for one big chance ♪ i'll be good if i had a hundred grand ♪ ♪ lord, i might go off the deep end and go blow it on a sweet can ♪ might be just enough to keep the law off my back and keep me out of trouble, the promise i made my mama ♪
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if i don't do that i don't know how to hustle ♪ ♪ hundred grand smoke it like a chimney, better hope before i get a chance to spend it ♪ ♪ if i, if i had a hundred grand, lord, i might go off the deep end and go blow it all this weekend ♪ >> hey, school, baby. >> hey. i know. >> at the santa rosa correctional institution in florida, dreams of what could be run through the imaginations of many. but less so for those who have already spent decades on the inside. >> to be honest with you, probably looking at probably one of the biggest screw-ups in the united states sitting right here looking at you. >> i've been incarcerated since
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i was 18 years old. when i was 18, i did a burglary. received a maximum sentence. >> convicted of burglary and assault and although he received a life sentence, he has been eligible for parole three times. >> i've been on parole and violated and i'm back. let me say something about parole real quick. i've heard people say this a lot of times. man, you get parole? what are you doing back? you know? how did you come back? how did you mess up? you know? when you're on parole, you actually live under a more stricter environment than you do in prison. okay? you get a traffic ticket on the street, say you run a stop sign. you're going to pay your little ticket and go about your way. that's not going to happen to me. me, they're going to send me back to prison. you live with a lot of pressure. >> these days hill lives with a little less pressure than
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roughly one-third of santa rosa's inmates. he is housed in a general population unit where there is more freedom of movement and privileges. >> see this right here? nectar of the gods. that's nectar of the gods. can't get beer, but you can drink coffee. >> borrowing coffee from a neighbor is considerably more difficult if not impossible for the 1,100 inmates housed in close management unit. >> both of you, step over here one at a time. >> turn around. >> they're in confinement for violence or other serious rule violations and are subject to frequent cell inspections for weapons, drugs or other forms of contraband. >> turn around, back in the cell. >> we're going to conduct a routine cell search on a couple cells up here in wing one. >> every shift has to shake down a certain amount of inmates every day, and this is what we're do. go in there, have them cuff up. they'll submit to the restraints.
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place them in the shower. go through their belongings in the cell. control the contraband in the institution. we'll go up and pick a number that's random. it kind of keeps them on their toes, because if we were to go in and start searching from cell one all the way down, then the others will know, hey, we're going get searched next. let's get rid of our contraband. doing it at random gives us a good chance to find something if they got something up in there. >> this one. this is not right. feel this one. feel that one. here. go ahead and open that one. yeah. that's soap. >> what is that? >> whoa. whoa. >> there we go. >> let me see that. >> what do y'all have?
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>> man, that's a cuff key. that's a homemade cuff key made out of metal. that's a homemade cuff key. this right here can get somebody killed. this is why we do our shakedowns and do them at random. if they knew we were coming, we would have never found this. it would have been gone. they would have flushed it. this right here is very serious. >> the key has been discovered in the cell of inmates lionel bowden and fausto duran. but it was in bowden's deodorant container. >> if we can't find this, no telling what would have happened. we don't know as of now what he was planning to do. >> bowden is serving a 21-year sentence for armed armory. a close management inmate for almost a year after having been caught with a shank. >> yep. look. it fits in here perfect. the dimensions are just right, because it fell over a little bit, but it fit in there.
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you want to explain this? why you got a homemade cuff key in your property? >> nothing to explain. if you found it in my property, you know. >> okay. >> i can't explain it. >> why did you make it? >> in case i need it. >> need it for what? >> i don't know. there are things out there. some things might happen at certain times, i might need it. i might -- i might be in -- >> you're going to escape with it? is that what you're going to do? >> hell, no. why would i want to escape? >> okay. i'm going to have you write a statement out. you understand? go ahead and house him alone immediately go ahead and put him on heightened security. okay? >> later, bowden explained he made the key from a battery.
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>> you have to roll it so you'll be able to grip it. >> yeah, but the dimensions right, though. >> yeah. somebody told me. make them at one point in time. >> the cuff key -- >> $25. >> all right. look. this is what we need to do. go with him and get the balanced property packed up. we're going to ship him over and place in heightened security single cell over there. get him out, his stuff packed up and get him out of here. >> sometimes the risk has to be taken, though. if i make it and get caught, i get the consequences and have to accept the consequences. >> place you on heightened security. go ahead and move you out of the dorm. all right? appreciate your honesty with that. you want to make any other comments? >> no. >> turn around and cuff up.
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all right. back out. kneel down. black box. >> the black box is a security device placed over bowden's handcuffs to cover the key hole to prevent him from tampering with the lock. >> you understand you're being placed on heightened security, this will be required every time you leave your cell. right? >> yes, sir. >> him having a handcuff key is pretty scary. he can turn around, hurt a staff member or being on a transport try and escape on the transport. there's been officers in other states that have gotten killed because of inmates escaping and they've had handcuff keys. we don't want that to happen. coming up -- lionel bowden answers to authorities, and -- >> i know i'm a man but i consider myself a woman. >> an inmate deals with his identity. >> inmate was sentenced as a
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come on. >> like all prisons, the santa rosa correctional institution near pensacola, florida, has strict codes of conduct for inmates. >> this facility keeps tight reins on this inmate population, because if you continue to allow little violations, then they turn into big things and with this caliber of population, we have to handle it this way. >> more than three quarters of santa rosa's inmate population are serving time for violent crimes including assault, rape and murder, but even those convicted of non-violent crimes are expected to follow all the same rules and protocols. >> they nitpick about every little thing. they're so by the rules here. walk a narrow line. if you do anything outside of that, this is where you end up, in confinement with nothing.
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>> tell me about your headpiece. >> my headpiece? this is just a t-shirt, really. this is illegal. i'm not supposed to be wearing this, really. >> jurez williams has been at santa rosa seven months. >> i've been incarcerated three times all for the same thing. violation of probation and prostitution. >> williams says he began turning tricks at 12 years old and has been arrested eight times for prostitution. >> prostitution, when you first catch one it's a misdemeanor. after the third one, they upgrade it to a felony. that's what happened with me. what the judge told me, if i get caught again for prostitution, it would be a five-year sentence. >> i can't help it. i cannot help it. if someone gave me like $1 million right now and told me
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you don't have to do this no more, i think i would just upgrade everything i have and continue doing what i do. >> williams's many mug shots offer a glimpse of his life as a transgender prostitute. >> i'm addicted to it. i don't know why. that's all i can say. >> one time he was even mistakenly booked into a county jail as a female. >> i'm a male but i consider myself a woman. on the street i live my life as a woman. my name is sharoyal taylor. i was taken hormones on and off on the streets. i plan on eventually getting the whole surgery done if i make enough money to do it. >> but williams' preference to live as a woman makes no difference at santa rosa. >> inmate williams was sentenced as a male, sent to a male facility here at santa rosa. so that's the way he's treated, as a male inmate. >> though he has spent time in
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various jails and prisons, williams finds santa rosa especially hard to deal with. >> i have to deal with a lot of negativity about me being who i am. so with me being homosexual, i'm like an outcast compared to everyone else in here. it's like -- i'm like scum of the earth here. out of all the times i've been in prison, i've never been through this much crap. >> currently, williams has little if any contact with other inmates. he is housed in a single-man confinement cell. >> an inmate, i'm supposed to write a request form for me and make an attempt to escape. >> why would an inmate write that? >> i have no idea. they either didn't want me in the room with them or didn't want me in the dorm. could have been anything. >> the anonymous letter stated that williams was going to kill two correction officers during his escape attempt. williams believes he was framed, but was placed in confinement pending an investigation.
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>> sometimes it is hard for us as security to be able to determine which has validity and which ones not. that's why we take them serious when they have to do with anything about escape or staff safety. >> but within a few more days, williams can put his current troubles behind him. he only has one week left on his sentence. >> this is a release handout, letting you know all the things i have to do, if i have to go register as a convicted felon in the county i'm going home to, and right now i'm just -- overwhelmed with excitement. i just want my freedom. i want to see my friends. i want to see my family. so it's kind of hard being, like, enclosed in here by myself, and i just want to go -- ah! hey. coming up -- >> all right, guys. get him up in the wheelchair. >> armando doctor causes another emergency response. and later -- >> what were you planning to do with the handcuff. >> lionel faces a disciplinary
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prisons like the santa rosa correction institution in florida can be dirty places. blood, sweat, feces and urine are part of the fabric of life here. the task of cleaning that fabric, the inmates, falls squarely on 18 inmates who work in the laundry facility. among them is michael jacobs. >> we operate eight to ten hours a day. different things. fight, stabbings, a lot of stuff goes on here in santa rosa. it's a level 6 facility. >> some of the worst laundry comes from the close management units. >> violent inmates back there. you know what they're capable of. it's just a place you don't want to be. florida's most troublesome inmates all in one building. >> the most hazardous laundry is washed separately from all the rest. >> these yellow bags right here, these are the ones that usually come in, we usually don't open them until we stick them into the machine, you know?
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this is daily. the blood and stuff from cutters and suicide. >> armando doctor, the close management one inmate, recently contributed to the latest load of yellow bag laundry when he deliberately cut himself inside his cell. the damage was so severe, he needed a transfusion to replace the blood he lost. two days later, he's cut again. >> doctor is laid out down there in the floor. appears inmate doctor has a self-inflicted injury to his left arm. came up, unresponsive laying on the floor. forced to do a life safety check. now he's setting up for restraint. medical has been notified. >> he's been doing this quite a while. probably about his fifth time he's cut. we've had to pull him out and deal with him this way, and it's getting to be about a monthly thing. >> what's going on with you? why you doing this? >> i tried to talk but nobody wanted to listen.
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>> who'd you try to talk to? >> sarge. >> did you talk to mental health? >> i tried. he ignored me. >> did you declare a psychological emergency? >> yes, sir. i'm in fear for my life. >> from who? >> the sergeant threatened me. >> looks like you should be in fear of life of yourself. >> nurse in the building's see if we can get him up into the wheelchair. >> work with me. get on your feet. watch your step, backing up. >> while inmate doctor made serious allegations, mental health staff say this is not the first time. after several evaluations, they say doctor has ulterior motives for cutting himself. >> he's noted for doing something like this if something doesn't go right, but what he's
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doing is not related to his mental health. it's, in my opinion, it's more manipulative. he's trying to get out of something, or he's using us as a way to manipulate the system. so we want to keep an eye on the cutting, because we don't want anyone to die, which he really doesn't want to die. but he could accidentally do it. >> it's a new cut. it's not the same cut as his old, as the previous one. it's a new cut on his left upper bicep up here that's fairly deep. >> ultimately it's for some type of secondary gain. he's going to continue to do it until he gets what he wants. no way of telling. i don't know what it is he's trying to get out of it. >> she's threatening me. >> before doctor can be brought back to his cell it has to be cleaned and disinfected and once again that job falls to houseman carlton williams.
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>> he did it again. they should have known that from the get-go. he was trying to prove a point. >> this time officers have retrieved the object doctor used to cut himself. >> actually looks like a piece of razor blade. actually had a touch of his chin. >> after the cleanup, correction officers removed all things from his cell to prevent another cutting incident. >> moving his property is not for punishment but for his own protection. it's kind of going to be up to him now how far this goes. we're trying to protect tim and have to take it step by step. >> doctor will remain under observation for security and mental health staff and given back his mattress once it's determined safe to do so. >> watch your head, doctor.
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lay down. don't want you to get up i. told you -- >> i know you're going to be good. >> we're not going to leave you unattended. we will come by and check on him. my staff has been instructed. they're very good at what they do and they will make sure that he stays safe and we'll not allow him to seriously get hurt. coming up -- >> first time i cut i was in my teens. >> armando doctor explains his actions. but then is confronted by correction staff. >> you said to me you got me. you got me. your exact words. you got me. why you going to tell them on camera something different? i walked up and caught you red-handed with it. for over . [ alex ] transamerica helped provide a lifetime of retirement income. so i can focus on what matters most. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real.
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nothing changes here. every day is just like yesterday and tomorrow's going to be the same as today. about only thing that changes here is the faces. after a while even the faces begin to be the same. you know? you know, that's one of the thing about doing time. nothing changes. >> jack hill finds working out to be the best remedy to the monotony of his life here at the santa rosa correction's institution. >> out here on the track, some guys get into the basketball. me, i'm mainly, i get into dips, pull-ups, push-ups, stuff like that. everybody's got their own little way of getting tension and aggravation -- this is your
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stress release right here. >> hill has spent most of the past 35 years in prison. besides a few releases on parole, he's had a couple of others of his own making. not long after his conviction for burglary and assault, he was participating in a work release program and escaped. >> working outside. i met a girl. you know? you get to thinking with the wrong head, not thinking like you should. remember, now, you've got a young kid whose never had serious contact like that. she says i love you. i don't want to you leave. okay. let's go. right? jump in the car, we didn't come back. that was my first escape, big escape. i got caught that night down the road. a real crash dummy. >> a year later hill was back on work release. met another girl and hit the road again. >> from that point on until they got me, it was rock 'n' roll, i was on the road almost a year. the first one, went to texas. you know? loved texas. went to vegas.
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left vegas. went to california. left california, went back to vegas. went to florida. left florida, come to california, then to alabama and s.w.a.t. team got me. >> hill's escapes were from another florida prison. no one has ever escaped from santa rosa. but escape was one of the first things that crosses the minds of the staff. when they discovered a homemade handcuff key inside lionel bowden's deodorant container. >> handcuff key is like you know, mainly for my defense. you know? >> having a handcuff key is not really unusual, but sometimes it's necessary. you know. theoretically speaking, you know?
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>> serving a 21 year sentence for armed robbery. says this isn't the first time he's received a disciplinary report, or d.r., during his time in prison. >> i've had possession of a weapon d.r., possession of a handcuff key. several disrespect d.r.s. a couple fight d.r.s. since incarcerated, i still combine four of them to fines. >> caught with the cuff key, already when he was in this unit. now he must face the institutional classification team, or ict. who could change his status from close level management 2 to level 1, the highest security level in the entire prison. >> you're currently in class management 2. classification officer is recommending upgrade to class management 1. >> what were you planning to do with the handcuff key?
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>> sell it. >> had you sold one before? >> yes, ma'am. >> how much do you make for a handcuff key? >> about $15, $20. >> you do realize the danger that represents in a high security facility for $15 or $20, not only to you but to other inmates and staff as well? >> yes, sir. >> you realize the consequences? >> yes, sir. >> bowden will wait outside, but it only take as matter of moments for the classification team to reach a decision. >> inmate, the institution classification team, we're going to recommend upgrading close management one. this recommendation goes to said classification, and they have the final decision. we're also approving a two-year visitation suspension. is there anything else you'd like to tell us?
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>> no, ma'am. >> already considered a high security inmate, an upgrade to level one means that bowden's existing privileges and movements will be even more restricted than before. armando doctor has been a close management one inmate at santa rosa for the past several months. >> i've had him for years since i've been here. it's been a constant struggle but he is one of the more extreme cases we've dealt with as far as the constant cutting and misbehavior. >> doctor's arms have only begun to heal since two cutting incidents weeks earlier. >> i wasn't thinking at the time. i was aggravated. angry. i couldn't think of anything else. >> i've done it periodically off and on over the years, but i
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felt that, you know, the situation, it got too tough, that i couldn't deal with it and i might have retaliated physically. so i took the critical retaliation out on myself. >> doctor says his squinting is the result of being poked in the eye while in the infirmary. one of several allegations he has made against staff. >> doctor's allegation against staff was never found warranted. it was checked, but unfounded. he was wanting to be moved out into the dormitory. so he was using those allegations against staff to try to dictate where he could live. >> while staff denies injuring him, doctor has been injuring himself since childhood. >> the first time i cut i was in my teens. growing up in foster care, i felt they had done me wrong taking me away from my family. you know? i wouldn't talk to nobody. i had a lot of good people that
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actually tried to take care of me, but my main problem was i never opened up, because at times when i tried, something always happened. so i always kept closed, and due to the fact that you're not my mother, you're not my father. you're not nobody in my blood line, i wouldn't talk and i wouldn't try to be a part of the family. >> since his latest cutting incident, doctor is moved back into his cell and not received any further sanctions, because the prison does not issue for self-injuries. >> he's got full property back, and he's allowed all of his outside activities. seen by mental health recently the last few days. he's been doing pretty good. real quiet since he came back this time. no issues out of him. >> but the incident that apparently triggered doctor's cutting was a disciplinary hearing and given additional time on close management level one for masturbating in public. doctor still denies doing so.
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>> i'm a muslim. and we cannot carry ourselves in that manner. if we are alone and we have our thoughts to ourselves, that's another thing. but to openly do that, you know, it goes against what we believe in. so i had to leave that alone. >> don't tell them things that aren't true. >> sergeant was standing by and remembers things differently. >> i walked up to you, your privates were in your right hand, you dropped it and it slid on the floor. and you said to me, you got me, sarge, you got me. your exact words. you got me. why you going to tell hem on camera something different? i caught you red-handed with it and you said, you got me. yeah, you did. yeah, you did. >> i'm the officer that wrote the disciplinary report on him for the lewd and lascivious
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behavior. i physically saw him doing. by the time i caught him, you got me, sarge. i'll sit down. i'll back away. listen to him telling you the opposite putting me out there on the front street knowing i was the one that caught him. he knew what he did. it didn't make me angry. i expect these inmates to be truthful and treat me the way i treat them. i don't treat them with disrespect, i expect them to do the same for me. it's a respect issue for me. do that right in front of me, it kind of struck a nerve. coming up. >> thinking what my dad told me back year ago. he said, don't never give up. >> jack hill's personal pledge. and jurez williams celebrates freedom. >> let them know that bitch back. back for her crown. n't breathe through your nose... suddenly you're a mouth breather. a mouth breather! how do you sleep like that? you dry up, your cold feels even worse. well, put on a breathe right strip and shut your mouth. cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip, and pow!
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escapes from prison work release programs, jack hill has spent the majority of his adult life behind bars. those years have been further tarnished by his many losses. >> i lost my father, my grandfather, my grandmother, my great-grandmother, my great-grandfather, you know. i lost my sister. i lost my brother, i lost my mother. my aunt and my uncle. yeah. pretty much my whole family's passed away suns i've been in here. i used to take and mail them letters. i took them for granted and i used to take visitations for granted. now i don't have neither. >> hill says his late father's advice is what keeps him going. >> i think about what my dad told me back years ago. he said, don't never give up. whatever you do, son, don't never give up. i think of the fact that my mother passed away while i was in here. and my goal, my goal is to win
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my case and have expiration of sentence stamped, done in full and lay it on her grave and say, momma, i've done it. i've done it. i'm home. >> hill will eventually have another chance to fulfill his goal when he becomes eligible for parole again in the future. but for jurez williams, who has spent seven months here for felony prostitution, the time is now. >> my last day and the sentence, i'm getting ready to go home. i'm so happy. i'm trying to contain it right now. >> did you sleep last night? >> no. not at all. i've been up all night and all day. >> santa rosa correction officers will accompany williams to the pensacola bus station and stay with him until he boards a bus for home. >> how's it feel walking out of here? >> like heaven.
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like heaven. ready for my freedom. it's been seven months without it. >> okay. >> you're going to receive $50 when you get on the bus. count it out for you. 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 dollar. you'll receive that when you get on the bus. meantime, i'll keep it. with your paperwork. >> williams is given state issued clothing but it probably won't compare to the outfit he was first arrested in. >> what were you arrested in? >> some hot shorts and a pair of snow boots and a leather jacket and a nice bra. that was it. >> so what are you thinking about those? >> i guess i like them. >> are you going to be wearing that on the street? >> no way. not at all. i would not wear this on the street. i have clothes at home.
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so, this is -- i'm going to do the trash and burn them as soon as possible. >> williams and another released inmate, are loaded on to a transport van. within minutes are outside the confines of santa rosa. >> we're out of here. >> oh, thank god it's over. >> you never really appreciate the small things in life like the trees and the grass. until you get out of places like this. >> at the bus station, williams make as phone call to his sister. he has big plans. for his first night home. >> i'm in, girl, just got to the bus station waiting on my bus. i'm going to need a bottle of ciroc and a fresh pack of newport 1000s.
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my -- i need a french blade to cut my legs. an eyebrow archer. oh, yes. and oh, lashes. i need my lashes. i want you to put up on facebook, i want you to -- let them know that the bitch is back. she's back for her crown. the bitch. she's back for her crown. yeah. and -- yeah. that part. so, wait, wait. at the end of it, let them know about al. >> all aboard.
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