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>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> an agitated inmate takes severe measures to get staff's attention. >> where is the lieutenant at? i don't believe this. mayberry just swallowed one of the arms off his eyeglasses. >> i've been told there are some crazies here, and there's some dangerous people, and they're looking at me like i'm a weakling. >> a young first-timer is found
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unconscious in his cell. >> jarrett. >> administratively segregate the due to his enemy status. >> i've done a lot of things in my life i'm not proud of. >> from the seawall to historic downtown landmarks, charleston, south carolina, is a picture of southern charm. not everyone displays southern hospitality. for some, that could meantime at the county jail, better known as the sheriff al cannon detention center. >> get your right foot up. >> most of the 1,300 men and women incarcerated here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial and the resolution of their cases.
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each one entered the jail through the intake department. >> take your shoes off. >> it's a steady flow from body search to fingerprints. >> all right. you're all done. >> and a booking photo. and for those who will be here for a while, the important step of determining where to house them. >> i'm officer teagarden. i'll be doing your classification interview. >> william jarrett began his stay here in a unit largely considered the most desirable, minimum security, general population. there are no cells, so inmates feel less confined and have more privileges. but 16 days in, jarrett requested a transfer to protective custody or p.c. >> there were some older guys that were creeping me out and making advances on me. so i told sergeant that those guys were bothering me. the woman at the desk was like, do you need p.c.? i was like what is that? >> she said, do you need it? >> i said, i guess so.
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and then i get here, and i mean my anxiety is provoked by being in small places. this is a really tiny room. >> jarrett says he didn't realize the protective custody comes with some of the same retrikzs placed on inmates who violate rules. both are confined to single-person cells 23 hours per day, which staff say is the best way to protect p.c. inmates. >> it's a safety issue. we still have to make sure that everybody in here is safe. that's our job. >> jarrett says this is more protection than he can handle. >> last night i had a really bad anxiety attack to where the nurse had to come. i started crying because she was asking me all these questions, and like i was so confused. >> this is jarrett's first time in jail. he was arrested in an abandoned movie theater often inhabited by the homeless. >> i'm charged with burglary in the third, which is entering a premises with intent to commit a
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crime. >> jarrett has pled not guilty but admits to being in the theater. he said he was robbed on his way home to atlanta and had nowhere to go. the police report said he was found sleeping in the box office. >> call it hobo hotel. i decided to go in there. it was a lot warmer than being outside. >> but jarrett denies another allegation in the report, that he vandalized the building. >> there's some graffiti in there, and they charged me with that even though it's obviously old. so they're charging me with stuff that's just -- i mean they have no proof at all that that was me. >> as he awaits trial or a possible plea deal, jarrett says he now wants out of protective custody. in the meantime, he says he copes the best he can. >> i do yoga and tai chi. see, i'm a buddhist. i firmly believe every affirmation and belief that the buddhist philosophy teaches. that's what's been keeping me pretty calm, the yoga mostly, and then i can meditate. >> but some here take more
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extreme measures to cope. officers have been called to the intake department where an inmate just returned from a visit to the hospital after swallowing a foreign object. now he's done it again. >> mayberry just swallowed his glasses arm, and he just got back in the door. he's refusing to go on suicide watch. >> you're going to have beat my ass. i'm tired of this [ bleep ], man. >> calm down. >> why are y'all taking me off my medication that is doctor prescribed for me. the doctor here said they can't afford the medication. >> you see that? he swallowed the arm? >> he swallowed the other side of this. >> where is the lieutenant at? i don't believe this. mayberry just swallowed one of the arms of his eyeglasses. >> what's going on? >> i just had inmate joseph mayberry, he broke off one arm to his glasses and swallowed it.
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we just had him return from the hospital for swallowing objects, and when we went to put him on suicide watch, he did it again. i'm going to talk to the housing lieutenant now. he may have to go back to the hospital, so we'll have to get a team together while we wait for ems to get here. >> i broke the arm off and swallowed it. >> mr. mayberry just came back from the hospital. he swallowed a pen earlier. he was just coming back, and he's going to be placed on suicide watch. and mr. mayberry basically told her he was not going on suicide watch. >> i've had it. i'm ready to be beat down, anything you want to do. >> i don't want to beat you down, mayberry. there's no reason to. >> suicide watch can be especially stressful for inmates. they are stripped of all their clothes and required to wear a thick, tear-proof gown. they're placed in empty cells and are under direct observation
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24/7. >> i've been here ten months, man. >> i've been here 20 years. >> you've been watching football with a bunch of women walking around. my gown won't even fit around me, man. >> stop that. >> i ain't stopping nothing. >> as per policy from the jail, he has to go in the suicide gown, and it doesn't matter if he is mentally ill or he can be stable. that's the policy. >> mayberry says he was not intent on suicide, but getting his medication changed. >> you say you can't afford it. i just swallowed the glass thing, and you all still don't want to give me my medication. come on, man. what do they make the medicine for? >> on the outside, mayberry had been taking a specific form of medication for his schizophrenia, but the jail was unable to provide him with the same kind. >> our medical department supplies the medications, and
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most of them are generic brands. it's a cost-savings because it's the county taxpayers that are bringing the money in to operate this facility. we always look for ways to reduce costs without taking away from the services that we provide. >> you don't see things i see. you've known me for a while. you know what i've been going through. >> i think mayberry, he's actually not a bad inmate at all. he basically wants his medication to be right. >> you keep pushing a dog into the corner, one day the dog is going to come out of that corner and bite you because you pick on him. he's going to come out of that corner after a while. >> nobody wants to cause harm to you at all. >> you've personally been good to me. but it's these other people, man. >> trying to help you the best i can. but i can't prescribe medication. >> the state hospital for prisoners, you all won't even
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send me there to get my medicine straightened out. it seems like that's what you all would do is send me to just care. >> just care is a nearby mental health facility. the jail refers some inmates there for treatment, but only when there's room. >> availability access is limited, and there's not a lot of bed space out there, and it's a waiting game. that could take four months. >> ready? >> but for now, mayberry is headed back to the local emergency room to be treated for the eye glass arm he swallowed. >> you're not going to give us any troubles, right? >> i'm not going to give you any trouble. >> we appreciate that. we're going to do the same to you. >> coming up -- >> you gonna change or not? >> the special operations group takes step to make joseph mayberry comply with orders. and william jarrett makes a new friend. s fit well.
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>> it's been a long night for both staff and one inmate at the sheriff al cannon detention center. earlier -- >> i just swallowed a glass thing, and y'all still won't give me my medication. >> joseph mayberry swallowed the arm of his eyeglasses because the jail would not give him the same medication his doctor prescribed on the outside. emergency room doctors were able to remove it, but now there's another problem. >> i want wearing that [ bleep ]. >> i tried to talk to him. the lieutenant tried to talk to him. there was just no giving in. >> mayberry refuses to exchange his clothes with the tear-proof gown inmates are required to wear. it's to ensure they won't harm themselves. >> he has to go into that suicide gown. based on what he has done, he has to. there's no choice. >> officers from the special
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operations group are called in whenever an inmate refuses orders. they are armed with less than lethal weapons, including o.c. gas or pepper spray. >> you can spray me. i still ain't giving you my clothes. >> you going to change or not? >> no. >> hey, change out, man. >> nope. >> just change out. >> this is for you to put on, but i need what you have on. >> no. >> if they're not going to listen, then we're going to raise the level. he refused, so my operators used a flashlight as a distraction. and at that point, we have to go ahead and use the o.c. spray. >> when you decide to come out, you let me know, all right? >> mayberry seems to have little reaction to the spray, so officers continue to wait. >> he has had an opportunity to sit down and let the o.c. take effect, and he can think about, you know, how much the pain is. >> mr. mayberry, you ready to
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comply? >> no. >> no? okay. >> mr. mayberry, you ready to comply yet? >> no. >> why not? >> i want to talk to the lieutenant. you made a deal. i want to talk to the lieutenant. >> after you change, you can talk to the lieutenant. >> you promise me? >> yep. >> we went back in and asked him again, and he decided to take off the sneakers and the pants and the shirt, and we gave him the gown. we took him in the shower, told him how to wash away some of the o.c. spray. >> coming through. >> when we place somebody, we strip them down, we put them in that green smock and put them in a room by themselves that they have nothing. it may seem inhumane to keep somebody that way, but what people need to understand is that it's for their protection. we're not in their heads. we don't know what's going on. we don't know what they're thinking. and this protects the inmate, and it protects us from any
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litigation because we can show that we did everything we possibly could to protect the inmate from harming themselves. >> mayberry has now been back from the emergency room for 24 hours. >> they would have to do major surgery, but it got caught in my throat. so they put me to sleep and went down there and pulled it out. i was doing good taking my medication, and they brought me here. when i got arrested and came here, they took me off all that medicine, and i haven't been right since. >> amy, who has requested that we not use her last name, is the jail's mental health supervisor. she says inmates like mayberry must often accept generic brands of the medicines they took on the streets. >> some of the challenges we face having more mentally ill coming into the jail is resources. it costs a lot of money to get medications. it costs money for our office to be adequately staffed, for us to have enough psychiatrists' time. we're looking at 20 hours a
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week, and we treat about 350 people. >> i told them, i said, look, if they don't want to pay for it, my parents will pay for the medicine and bring it down here to y'all and give it to y'all. >> many years ago, we did accept outside medication, but some people were bringing in medications that weren't the real medication. they were bringing in capsules that maybe had other substances that were not the actual medication. the dosages were wrong. the prescription bottle wasn't current. it became too much of a liability to accept medications from the outside. >> like jails and prisons across the country, charleston county faces an epidemic of rising health care costs and an ever-increasing inmates suffering from mental illness. the problem began decades earlier with the start of a systematic shut-down of psychiatric facilities throughout the nation. over the years, more and more of the mentally ill have found themselves in jails, unable to address all their needs. >> hey, man, how are you doing?
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>> all right. >> everything good with you? good, man. >> thanks, man. >> al cannon has been the sheriff for charleston county for more than a quarter of a century. he's witnessed the problem from its early days. >> you go back to the late '60s, early '70s, the psychiatric community was moving away from institutionalization. so what was supposed to follow along with that was commune-based funding for community-based programs. those programs did not follow. so you've got some real challenges there, and a lot of it has to do with, okay, you're not putting people in psychiatric facilities like you used to. so more often than not, law enforcement ends up having to deal with society's failure to really fully address that issue. >> mayberry says he's been suffering from mental health disorders, including schizophrenia, since age 12. as an adult, he's had a number
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of minor convictions for crimes such as larceny, public intoxication, and disorderly conduct. but 15 years earlier, he was convicted of his most serious crime, aggravated sexual battery and attempted rain. rape. he served five years in prison but says he was wrongly convicted and took a plea deal out of fear. >> i had a public defender, and he said, look, they're going to try to give you 20 years for the abduction, 20 years for the kidnapping, and 20 years for the attempted rape. i said, okay. i took the plea bargain. >> since his return home to charleston, mayberry has had arrests for failing to re-register as a sex offender, and that's what's let to his latest arrest as well. >> i didn't know about the sex offender has to register and not live by a church and couldn't go to shelters like that. i didn't know nothing about all that. >> mayberry says bouts with homelessness and periods off his medication have led to his failure to keep current with the
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sex offender registry. he is now awaiting a court hearing to find out if this latest violation will result in additional time in jail or prison. >> i would rather die than go back to prison. >> coming up. >> i'm not going to be okay. i'm going to keep passing out until i can get back up there or somewhere else. >> william jarrett 'struggles continue. ed on your good driving. you sell to me? no, it's free. you want to try? i try this if you try... not this. okay. da!
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>> few things inside the sheriff al cannon detention center help pastime faster than being an inmate worker. >> i'm in al cannon because you can distinguish what it is. other days, you can't distinguish what it is. you're just eating it. >> deangelo toomer is a worker. >> he's administratively desegregated due to his status. he does have several enemies, nine in the facility. he's been fairly quiet since he's been in a1 -- b.
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>> most of toomer's enemies are from his affiliations with gangs. he's in on a charge of first degree burglary. toomer says regardless of what happens with his case, he wants to change. >> i've done a lot of things in my life i'm not proud. i've lived the life of gang banging and all. first, i regret these. i regret these so much, the tattoos. i studied a lot of things in prison trying to find inner peace because i was trying to change myself. so what i tried to do to keep myself sane, tried to stay out of trouble as much as possible. >> i see how he's interacting with the other inmates. he's definitely got a leadership style. it's a shame that he's in jail because i'd like to think that maybe he can do something better with his life. >> that's a whole lot of good
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meal here. >> toomer, who has served time in both prison and jail on a variety of other convictions, has befriended a new arrival in the unit, william jarrett. >> he's a good kid, but he has some issues. >> while toomer is in segregation, jarrett is in protective custody. but they share the same unit and restrictions, such as 23 hours per day in their cells. >> in this unit, i have been told there's some crazies and dangerous people, and they're looking at me like i'm a weakling, and the first chance they get, they're going to strike because that's how it is in jail. >> i tried to pass some things on to him, but he's very emotional. i just saw him over there crying. he would go to prison, and he would started crying, show feeling and emotions, he would be a prey. basically stay to yourself. mind your business. don't deal with nobody. >> right. >> and another thing. please, if you're going to cry, just go in the room or go in the shower and put your head under the water. >> jarrett requested to be in protective custody because he
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says some older inmates were making some advances toward him in general population. but he says he didn't know protection equates to confinement. >> i have anxiety disorder. i've been diagnosed, and i take trazodone for it, which is an anti-anxiety, and it's also used to help me sleep because i don't sleep very well. they just haven't been able to get it for me. i've tried since the very first day i've gotten here. >> jarrett says his small cell makes him feel claustrophobic and has caused him to pass out. he wants to get back to general population. >> this is a request to be removed from protective custody. for classification, we have to research this inmate to find out what type of person he can be around that he won't feel intimidated. >> from what i understand, he's new to the system. he has a tendency to suffer from what i've been told with anxiety attacks. we're not trained in any way to deal with him, but sometimes just talking to someone helps. >> are you going to be okay?
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>> no. i'm not. that's the thing. i'm not going to be okay. i'm going to keep passing out here until -- until i can get back up there or somewhere else, somewhere, somewhere other than in this room. i'm not going to be fine here. i mean do you know anybody that has anxiety? >> not personally. >> i mean that's the thing. people just don't understand it. it's real. >> oh, no. i'm not saying it's not. trust me, i'm not saying it's not. there's 1,200 inmates here, and we can't just concentrate on william jarrett. >> this is like punishment. >> it's not punishment. >> i get one hour of rec from where i was coming from, from saying i needed help. >> unfortunately this is the way it's going to be until classification changes you. i'll classification later and see if they're going to move you
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because they got your request. we'll see what happens then. so are you going to be able to hang in there? >> i don't know. it's unpredictable. it really is. the anxiety attacks just come. sometimes they just start from nothing. i mean -- >> yeah, i understand. i understand they're real. >> he has to realize it is jail. you just keep an eye on him to make sure that, you know, nothing does, you know, really, really upset him or he does try to do anything to himself. >> coming up. >> jarrett, what's up? what happened? what happened? >> staff rush to william jarrett's aid. and -- >> mr. toomer is in segregation. he threatened to stab one of our officers. >> i never made no threat to anyone. it lets you earn cash back twice. once when you buy and again as you pay. it's cash back then cash back again. and that's a cash back win-win. the citi double cash card. the only card that lets you earn cash back twice on every purchase
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hillary clinton and bs bernie sanders did not materialize. instead, sanders apologized and called for an independent investigation. and jeb bush is turning up the rhetoric against the republican presidential front-runner, telling a group in new hampshire today that, quote, donald trump is a jerk. now, back to "lockup." >> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> inside the sheriff al cannon detention center, inmate exercise is limited to what can be done in open-air rec yards. technically, inmates are not supposed to exercise anywhere else, though it's the type of minor violation some officers might let slide if it's not causing a problem. but today, a pair of cell mates has kicked it up a notch. >> you workout lovers, you're going to love this.
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>> david ratliff junior and joshua rat ahar have used a ripped up mattress cover, and a canteen box filled with books to create their own weight machine. >> you all ready? this is the bowflex in prison. >> while the workout rates highly on the creative scale, it doesn't take long for staff to spot the goings on, and the gym is about to go out of business. >> step out. all this is contraband. >> what is? >> everything i'm taking out of this room. >> contraband? tore up blanket, tore up mat cover? water bottles. >> they're going to be charged by the count for destruction of county property. they didn't deny it. they'll be reprimanded and probably lose four hours rec.
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that's about the most. and they'll pay for the destruction of the property. >> it is the type of violation joseph mayberry has no chance to commit, even if he wanted to. he is on his third day of suicide watch after swallowing the arm of his eyeglasses. confined to a stripped down cell with only a tear-proof gown for clothing is a hard existence and not all that easy for the officers assigned to watch him. >> i came in and relieved an officer this morning. so i have to sit here to watch him and make sure he doesn't do anything to harm himself. >> it is draining whenever you have to put individual officers on active suicide watch inmates because it's one-on-one. it's 24/7 constant observation. our basic policy for suicide watch is 15-minute checks, and they never lose sight of them. they actually keep notes. they put it in the log. that way we've got a track record of what he's doing, if he's being complaint, you know, if he's eating his food.
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is he drinking? those are the things we're keeping track of. >> number two, you ready? >> yeah. >> on her shift to watch mayberry, officer lombardi fills the time by reading to him. >> i already felt some compassion for him coming in to be in a little room day after day after day with very little interaction. and i read to him some articles from a "time" magazine, and several people came up afterwards saying thank you because other inmates were listening. so it was kind of nice to feel a little bit more needed than just sitting there watching somebody. >> mayberry says he has suffered from mental illness since age 12. he is representative of a problem that is draining finances and resources from jails and prisons nationwide. >> some of them, i think, got in the system really early on and just have stayed in the prison system instead of getting any kind of care for their symptoms. >> dr. elizabeth leonard is the jail's psychiatrist. >> i think there's a lot of people that are behavior problems in the jail that it's
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just made it worse and exacerbate their already underlying illness, being in a stressful, close proxmation to other people. the whole system is helping prop gate another type holding ground or treatment facility for the population that can't get into the mental health center. >> william jarrett says he suffers from an anxiety disorder, which has been made worse by his 23-hour per day confinement in the small protective custody cell. >> i seriously cannot make it in here. it doesn't work for me. >> classification officers reviewed jarrett's request to be moved back to general population. officer chamberlain hopes he has found a temporary solution. >> i got permission to move william jarrett to another room. so he's going to be in a slightly bigger room. it's not that much bigger, but it's better. it might be a little psychologically better for him. mr. jarrett, are you ready for your move? all right. got all your stuff?
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got your mattress cover, blanket, towel, wash cloth? okay. come with me. you're going upstairs, 2114. >> right now he's staying in p.c. status until that's taken care of by the classification unit. >> this is a two-man room, but he's going to be the only man in there. it will be bigger than the other one you were in. are you all right with this one? >> for now. how hard is it to switch me to off p.c.? i mean -- >> that's up to classification. that's not up to us. all right. you take care of. >> the cell downstairs has a cut in the wall, and that gives the appearance of it being shortened whereas this one is more rectangular. he's by himself. he sees there's two bunks in there. that gives the impression that it's bigger. so he'll probably be a lot happier up here. >> do you think you're going to hear anything more from him tonight? >> oh, god, i hope not.
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i like to think he'll give it the night at least. i don't want to minimize what he's going through, but he's minor compared to a lot of the other people here who do have worse problems than him. >> less than an hour later, jarrett is found by a unit officer unconscious on the floor. >> jarrett passed out. >> we were coming up and checking on one of the new inmates who happened to be a door down from him and walked by. i looked in his room, saw him laying face down. >> jarrett! jarrett. >> me and the nurse went in there and checked on him, said his name, patted him a couple times. he was unresponsive, so i called the medical emergency over the radio. the sergeants came, nursing staff, other officers. >> jarrett. jarrett. jarrett. what's up? what happened? what happened? anything hurt anywhere? >> just my face. i don't even know how long i was out honestly.
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>> what's the status now? is he conscious now? >> he's conscious. he's talking to him. >> how long has he been in that room? >> probably about an hour. he said he thought a bigger room would help. i guess not. being in jail the first time. >> what happened the last time you passed out? >> yesterday, i don't even know what happened. i don't remember anything from yesterday. >> did they take you to medical? what did they say? >> they gave me some medication that i -- >> something for your anxiety? it's not helping? >> i was taking trazodone as needed, and now they have me taking something i don't even know what it is, every few hours. i would sleep for a little while, and that's it. >> according to the jail's mental health supervisor, there are several reasons, jarrett is unable to have the same medication he takes on the streets. >> we try to treet anxieties through antidepressants. the anti-anxiety medications, there are several reasons people don't get those.
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of course they are expensive. it would be a significant portion that would request those. the other important reason is they are schedule 2 narcotics and widely abused on the streets, widely abused in correction settings. >> those jarrett said he is suffering from anxiety in his protective custody cell, staff say they can never be sure. >> if you see an inmate requesting to move a lot, you kind of have a feeling that they're trying to manipulate the system. in this gentleman's case, initially it appears that way, that he's trying to manipulate and get where he wants to be. if he doesn't feel safe or he's having a lot of anxiety and being in a housing unit and he feels threatened, protective custody may be the place for him. >> the protective custody unit is in the same wing and follows the same restrictions as administrative segregation or add-seg. deangelo toomer had been in ad
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seg but now he's been transferred to an even more restrictive setting. >> mr. toomer apparently last sunday, he had threatened to stab one of our officers. apparently this was a verbal threat. however we do not take those threats lightly. >> i never made no threat to anyone. if i'm going to do anything to anybody, first and foremost, i'm not going to threat. i'm not going to talk about it. i'm just going to do it. >> coming up. >> i've been hearing you've been affiliated -- >> what is that? >> deangelo toomer meets with a gang investigator. and -- >> around 2:00, he had a medical emergency. >> william jarrett passes out.
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>> inside the sheriff al cannon
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detention center, deangelo toomer is awaiting trial on a burglary charge. he has just been sent to disciplinary segregation for allegedly threatening an officer, who had ordered him to take down the pictures on his cell wall. >> i came to lockup for refusing to obey, and then another officer, he tried to come up with another charge 25 minutes later, saying that i allegedly tried to threaten him, which is bogus. >> after speaking to other staff members, the disciplinary committee felt they could not substantiate the teat and dismissed it. >> they just wanted me to escort you out. >> but toomer still received ten days in disciplinary segregation for refusing orders. the incident also prompted sergeant kitchings, one of the jail's gang investigators, to check in with toomer, who stated that he wants to stay out of trouble and no longer involve himself with gangs. >> we believe he's afill yaiate
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with a gang. >> he has a six-point star. it's a common symbol used by the gangster disciples to represent their gang. >> toomer says the tattoos represent a clothing line he likes. >> what's this clothing line you like? >> he has a line called the famous f. >> you mean travis barker? travis baker, barker, him. >> i didn't nope he had a clothing line. >> he does. >> i knew he was a musician and had a plane crash. >> i liked it. i just put it on. it was something at the time when i was in prison, i think i was high as hell, and i put it on me. >> now, the f could be for a clothing line like he said or -- >> actually, i called you up here to clarify some information i've been receiving. >> okay. >> i've been hearing you've been
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affiliated with gangster disciples. >> what is that? >> you know what it is. >> i've heard of it. >> where did you hear of it. >> just prison, street. i try to stay clear of foolishness, you know. >> no gang affiliation at all? >> none. >> none? so what's up with that six points on your right arm. >> that's a famous -- that's what you call it, travis baker, a drummer. >> i never heard of it. >> yeah, travis baker. he's a pop drummer. that's his famous f. he got the clothing line. i like the style of clothing. >> you like the style? >> yeah. >> later, toomer said he didn't appreciate the line of questioning. >> i don't question you about your way of life or what you believe in. if i see a mason ring, i don't ask you about the brotherhood. i don't ask you about that. six point stars, f's, i mean christian, star of david. i mean -- >> not christians.
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>> star of david. >> jewish. >> same difference. they're christians however you look at it. they're christian. star of david. >> a few days later, toomer would no longer need to explain his tattoos to staff. he reached a plea deal to lower his first degree burglary charge to third degree burglary and was sentenced to time served. now his release is imminent, and he says he won't be back. >> i'm no better than you and you're no better than me. if i can do it, you can do it. right? i'm a couple steps ahead of you. >> yeah, yeah. >> you got a lot of catching up to do. but if you put your mind to it, you can do it. >> yeah. >> right? >> yeah. >> a short time later, toomer is changing back into his own clothes and about to take the eight-mile walk home. he says he made a decision to not ask anyone to pick him up. >> good luck to you. >> i just really want to like, you know, stop and smell the roses, you know, as i'm walking
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to my destination. i can actually pinpoint and plan what i'm going to do. my main thing is making my mark on this world, period. >> toomer leaves behind first-time inmate william jarrett, who 24 hours earlier said he fainted in his cell. now he's in the medical unit for a four-hour observation period after he was found passed out again. >> he around 2:00 had a 37-e, wip is a medical emergency. we're going to check in with him, see what happened, and go from there. >> so what happened today? so another medical emergency. >> i guess i just -- i mean i blacked out, and i guess i just fell backwards and hit -- >> yeah, i see you hit your head a little bit over there. they bringing down here, keep a watch on you, see what's going on. >> second time. >> you feel it's better in here. >> it's better definitely in here. >> it's more open, and it's not quite as confined for you? is that what it is? >> yea.
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>> yeah. ? >> when you're done wither hoo, they're going to put you back into a 1 b. >> i guess so. my chest going in and out, and having heavy breathing, and this is like i'm just blacking out completely. >> staff questioned whether jarrett's fainting spells are part of a plan to get out of protective custody and back to general population. >> this is bull [ bleep ]. that's not what i'm doing at all. i can't force anxiety. it just comes. >> so far, he's been cooperative, and we're still working to find out what's going on with him. why don't you go ahead and uncover. we're going to throw the mat on the bed. we need to do an ekg and get one more set of vitals on you, okay? >> he is almost at the end of his four-hour observation. at the end of that, we will call and report, and all decisions will be made using that information that we collected during the four hours.
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>> so have you been feeling okay since you've been back here? a little dizzy. >> yeah. >> you haven't blacked out or anything else, right? >> no. >> looks normal. >> okay. >> all of his tests came out good. his ekg was normal, and he was cleared to go back to his unit. >> do you feel going down there today and spending some time down there helped you any? >> not really. >> no? >> it really accomplished nothing. >> no? when did you say you think your mom is going to be able to bail you out? >> saturday. >> all right. let's go back in. >> though jarrett might be out of the jail in a few days, he uses the computer kiosk in his housing unit to once again request a transfer. >> i put it to attention to sergeant price, explaining the whole situation, how i got on p.c. without actually being told where i was going and just
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asking for another unit, because this is not what i wanted at all. i didn't want to be locked up. >> coming up, the jail makes a decision on william jarrett. and -- >> hey, how you doing? >> joseph mayberry makes contact with the one person who matters most.
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>> inside the sheriff al cannon detention center, sergeant price has just received another request from william jarrett to be moved out of the protective custody unit. >> and here it states again, i'm having multiple anxiety attacks that result in myself blacking out. this is due to the small rooms that i'm locked in. please return me to general population. with this inmate's personality, it's very possible that he's going to have problems in any unit he's placed in.
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>> we're going to go ahead and go this way. >> given that, sergeant price has decided to move jarrett back to general population, but to a differentharassed. >> a huge improvement. i should be fine for a couple more days. i'm just looking around. everyone seems all right. no one really making any threatening faces at me or anything. >> how do you think this whole experience has altered you, if it has? >> i never really gotten in trouble until this. it's made me see that -- like i thought i had hit rock bottom before in the past. now this is like a whole new rock bottom. it's the worst experience i've had in my life. >> for joseph mayberry, it's day seven on suicide watch after swallowing the arm of his glasses. he did so after becoming upset that the jail could not provide him the same medication he used to take on the outside.
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>> certainly swallowing all of those items that he has swallowed, he's certainly at risk to cause him some great bodily harm to himself. we're concerned, and we want to get him to a treatment facility to where he can get the treatment that he needs. >> mayberry is in jail for failing to reregister as a sex offender. convicted 15 years earlier, mayberry insists he did not commit the crime and was pressured into signing a plea deal to avoid decades in prison. >> how are you doing in there? >> as well as can be expected, i guess. i sleep a lot. i think about my mom. >> being on suicide watch, you know, you can't have a lot because we've got to take precautions. but they can use the telephone at the discretion of the supervisor. sometimes he needs somebody to talk to is what it seems like to me, and he does want to talk to his mother quite often. his mother kind of cheers him up. >> hey, baby girl. how are you doing?
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my mother is my best friend. we're closer now than we ever have been before. she told me, i got your back in this. my mother tries her best to look after me, and she loves me more than anything in this world. when are you coming to see me? >> he loves hi mom a lot, and it seems like he's a big kid when he's on the phone with his mom. also she gives him money to go to the canteen, which makes him pretty happy too. >> our detention staff, they don't go to school to be true mental health counselors. however, we work with mental health and we learn with some of their training that they give to us on how to address or how to approach certain mental health inmates. it is a strain on our staff because they know that they are very unpredictable. we've had officer assaults because they just weren't anticipating that the inmate was quite calm and has been. then all of a sudden that one day, it was like a light switch. >> we're escorting mr. mayberry to the shower. he's in the shower right now. give him an opportunity to completely shower, and then
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we'll escort him back to his room. we're just here so he doesn't take anything, swallow anything, because he's been doing that lately. >> but this will be one of the last showers mayberry will have on suicide watch. the jail's mental health supervisor has finally received word that a bed in an outside treatment facility has become available. >> joseph mayberry is going to be going to one of the state hospitals for psychiatric reasons, and he should be going there within the next couple of days. how does that make you feel knowing you're going to be in a hospital? >> it makes me feel better because i'll get some medicine. this whole thing was about medicine.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. that's their money over that's their money over here, how they pay their debts. if they don't pay, that's what happens. a fight breaks out. >> in progress is a fight. >> come on. >> a fight breaks out over snacks, but officers want to know if there was something else behind it. >> you're considerably bigger than this individual, and he's coming into your room and saying, "give me your" -- >> that don't mean nothing when you're -- miss --

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