due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. the gang member throws hot coffee in the face of a rival, leaving the man burned. possibly blind in one eye. losing both legs hasn't stopped another inmate from being part of a gang either. >> one of wichita's most notorious gang leaders is back in jail. and this time he's got something to say.

wichita, kansas, surrounding sedgwick county, take pride in the wild west roots. law men like wyatt earp spent time here. in the modern age, billy's gang would be seriously outgunned. >> we're at a crossroads in the middle of the country. we're getting not just the west coast gangs, the crypts, bloods, also some of the upper midwest gangs like from chicago and milwaukee and east coast stuff. it is all coming through here. >> in 2007, lieutenant with the wichita police department put a major dent in the area's gang population. he led a task force that landed

dozens of gang members in federal prison. today, he's the sheriff of sedgwick county. >> we did about a year and a half investigation along with atf and fbi, the lead agency on it. we were able to convict about 50 crypt gang members for various charges from distribution of cocaine to rico to rico conspiracies and homicide, just a whole plethora of things. eradicated the crypt gang here, which was the largest gang we had. >> reporter: along with other duties, sheriff jeff easter oversees the sedgwick county jail. most of the nearly 1200 inmates here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. among them a man regarded as one of wichita's most notorious gang members. >> he put fear in people's hearts. you put your head down, you walk by, you know. somebody you don't look in the eye. >> somebody that didn't play. >> didn't play.

>> dean says today, however, he's a different sort of leader. >> proverbs 12 and 1, who whoever loves instruction loves knowledge. he who hates correction is still bad. you got to want to get to together. you can't keep doing the same thing. i had a name out there. you know. my name still throbbing negative light. i'm trying to change that now. i'm put ing forth effort to change that. i want my name to thrive in light, not no dark, you know. >> he said, do you want to spend the rest of your life in jail? stuff i needed to hear. started changing. he helping me out. >> i hate being called c3. i laid my flag down on my own. i confessed it out might have mouth, i'm not -- i'm not gang banging no more. i'm through banging.

>> whoever come up to me what's up, i'm not c3 no more. i'm marquel. >> dean regularly attends church services in the jail's chapel. >> marquel, i've known him for quite a while. pretty wild kid. addicted to gang banging. i first saw him, i knew he was a preacher. i knew he was from the first time i saw him. i believe god is going to give him favor. >> dean's past is very much a part of his present. and could haunt him for rest of had his life. two years earlier, dean was on the wichita pd's ten most wanted gang members list. at the time, he was an active member of the crypts. but a history of violent convictions including multiple counts of aggravated assault and aggravated battery. >> they felt like i had a lot to

do with a lot that was going on, like, and i was only on the run for failing to register. >> dean had gone into hiding after a warrant was issued when he failed to register as a violent offender. a requirement for those with violent convictions in the state of kansas. he says he made it to california, where he began to re-evaluate his life. >> i started to see life what it was, i'm seeing i'm not going younger. i got my kids out here. i was really still a whole lot of guilt, feeling worthless and ste stupid for real. i had hada revelation of god's majesty, unexplainable state of peace. >> one year later, dean was overtaken by u.s. marshals. who arrested him in texas and returned him to wichita. dean received a 20-year prison sentence for theft, assaulting a police officer, and seven counts

of failure to register as a violent offender. >> i was just settling in on the fact, i'm in prison now, let me get my routine together, start knocking out the time, you know. sitting in my cell one day and they came to me with a detainer paper. >> dean was handed charges on a new case. a murder that occurred during the time he was on the run. he pled not guilty. >> i couldn't believe it. i couldn't -- i could not believe it, like, i'm, like, whoa. >> according to authorities, a shooting erupted between rival gangs at a warehouse party. five people were shot. one of them, 27-year-old james gary, was killed. >> evidently they accusing me of shooting somebody. it ain't a lot that could go on that my name wasn't brought up in. no comment. i don't want to comment on that. >> do you know who killed james gary? >> no comment.

>> if convicted, dean could receive a second prison sentence, 50 years to life. gang members accused of violent crimes like dean are segregated in their own housing units. but they're not segregated from each other. >> you can have a pod that can have a handful of bloods, handful of crypts, handful of -- you'll see some beefs they have in the street to bleed over into here, literally, fights will happen. >> s oto, a member of the sorenos agrees. >> it was tough. put the most violent people you say out of society and expect them to be peaceful. not going to happen. try to keep it that way. but there is certain people that don't know how to act.

>> some here believe that includes soto himself. surveillance cameras capture him, in his house ing unit, pouring hot coffee in a large cup. he takes a sip of the coffee and approaches a group of inmates, including denel hill, a member of a different gang, the bloods. soto throws the coffee in hill's face and pursues him with a barrage of punches. hill recovers enough from the surprise attack to back away. but soto is soon on him again. with hot coffee in his eyes, hill tries to fight back. only to slip on spilled coffee. in these maximum security housing units, inmates are supervised by deputies in secured observation stations who have called for backups to restrain the inmates. 1:25 after the start of the

fight, a team of deputies swarms the unit. the action is caught on a body camera, worn by sergeant link. >> break it up. >> i had a taser out ready in case he did not comply. deputy took the suspect to the floor. he is complying at this time. >> hill is removed from the unit and escorted by sergeant link and sheriff deputies to the jail's medical clinic. >> we're going to clean you up. >> what is your name, sir? >> darnell hill. >> after medical staff provide initial treatment for his burns, hill is taken to a local hospital for observation. soto injured his thumb and wrist and had them wrapped. sergeant link attempted to find out the cause of the fight and was not surprised by the results. >> they all say, we don't know what happened. they don't want to talk. something between inmates and none of them ever want to talk about it. no such thing as a fair fight in

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no jail, including wichita sedgwick county jail can guarantee a safe haven from violence. so time on their hands, many inmates do all they can to maintain fitness, including jeremy honeycutt, who has not let being a double amputee slow him down. >> i do everything. >> usually because of the time i got in and because my street

resper respect, street cred -- >> over the past 17 years, honeycutt served time on multiple convictions, including robbery, theft, criminal threat, criminal discharge of a firearm, and criminal possession of a firearm. he's currently charged with theft and failure to register as a violent offender, to which he pled not guilty. if convicted, his maximum sentence is nine years in prison. >> sounds crazy saying this, but it is just -- this is -- this is just like what i call home. >> this is -- >> over the years, honeycutt learned how to take care of himself as a disabled person behind bars. >> you got to be prepared for anything. when you're in a fight, you're the underdog, make sure -- anything can happen. they don't come with fists, they come with knives, locks, pipes. and they don't fight fair.

you want to be able to get -- >> for inmates like honeycutt, the jail xliz wicomplies with t standards set forth for the americans with disabilities act. >> they have to be in a room that has a pole next to the toilet, lowered mirror so they can see, and able to get on and off their chair on to the toilet using the sink and such. >> honeycutt says he lost his legs at age 6. he was walking home from school with a couple of friends. >> right between my house and school, saw this train and we decided to jump. and didn't have no signs or nothing. we jumped on the train. i slipped, i fell. i woke up in the hospital and my legs were gone. a lot of surgery, coping with everything in school, going back to school, being made fun of, a lot of altercations with other kids and working myself up through the ranks. >> honeycutt says members of a

gang call the spanish disciples provided protection for him in school. he became a member himself, and discovered that his disability provided no exemption from gang violence. >> i got stabbed five times to my head with a screwdriver. this was sustained from that too. wounds in the back of my head. i got stabbed 12 times in my back, punctured a lung. and that was from a rival gang member. i got a big chunk missing out of my stomach. part of my stomach, part of my large intestine. getting stabbed is worse than shot. it is searing. you feel it go in and out. i would rather get shot than stabbed. >> another gang member, darnell hill, can now have a disability as well. he's recovering in the clinic following an assault by soto. >> the doctor said probably little bit of loss of vision, but other than that, everything is fine. >> two days earlier, surveillance cameras captured

soto throwing hot coffee into hill's face. and unleashing a barrage of punches. with impaired vision and burns on his torso, he had difficulty defending himself. deputies responded within 90 seconds. but the damage was done. >> break it up. >> this eye is swollen. this one had has a lot of coffee in it and some second degree burns on my neck and chest area. part of lifestyle. it is normal. >> i usually heal pretty fast. just a minor setback for a major comeba comeback. >> 13 days earlier, hill was released from prison where he was serving time for burglary. he was arrested on a new charge of aggravated robbery to which

he pled not guilty. hill says he was in soto's housing unit for two days before the attack. >> i didn't know him. i've never seen him before. in a gang, just things happen sometimes. i don't know what it was for. comes with the lifestyle. i think that every day this is going to be it. i don't know if i'm going to live to see the next day. some make it and some don't. >> hill receives daily treatment for his burns, and the jail's medical clinic. >> just having fun now. >> stop it. >> i'm trying to clean it. we don't clean it, it could get infected. >> i know that burn is going to take a long time and he's being really tough. he's acting like it doesn't even hurt him at all. he's saying he doesn't care. he's tough. i don't know how he's doing it. i couldn't. >> worse than i thought. >> how you doing?

>> pretty bad. >> my burn is worse than you thought it was? >> not the burns, just getting beat up and all. >> the doctor is the jail's medical director. >> did you pass out at all? >> no. >> okay. >> the degree of his burns are first and second degree. it looks really bad, but the reality of it is that's probably no worse than someone who goes out in the sun for a very long time and gets a really bad burn. the first and second degree burns usually will heal without leaving a mark in most individuals. >> the doctor is more concerned with hill's right eye, which took the brunt of the hot coffee. >> can't see? >> it is all blurry. >> open up a little bit. >> he did have some significant injury to his eye. without a microscope, you can see the burn on his eye. his eye is extremely dilated and not reacting very well right now. that's a result of the trauma from getting hit. >> can you see okay out of this eye? >> yeah. >> this one for me? both eyes? >> his left eye will heal fine. he's seeing well out of it.

we're not overly concerned about it. it is the eye he's having loss of vision in we're more concerned about. >> can you see light? >> looks like two of you. >> you can see a finger? >> yes. >> he'll need close follow-up with the eye doctors to make sure his eye heals appropriately and we give him the best chances to have full function down the road. >> this doesn't even hurt? >> no. >> just a burn. >> despite his injuries, hill says he will not press charges against soto. >> can't tell. pressing charges will get you in trouble. just the way it is. comes with the lifestyle. >> what i know of that lifestyle, there is usually retaliation. >> could be. >> donnell hill. >> who? >> donnell hill. >> all right. >> you don't know the man you threw coffee on and beat up?

>> no. no, i don't know. >> following rules laid out by the sorenos regarding media, he agreed to speak with us, only in the presence of a senior gang member who would monitor the interview to make sure he would not reveal any confidential information. the senior member requested anonymity. >> can you tell me why you walked up to a complete stranger and throw hot coffee on his face and beat him up? >> no. i can't talk about that. >> why the hot coffee? >> i think we should change the subject. >> not just walk up and punch somebody? >> just, you know, jail stuff. misunderstanding between two parties. >> you don't know him?

>> i was with him in the pod for a couple of days i'm pretty sure, a few days. >> the district attorney could decide to file criminal charges against soto, with or without hill's cooperation. jail officials have also given him 25 days from disciplinary detention, where he'll spend up to 23 hours per day locked in the single man's cell and lose most privileges. this is the sixth time soto has been in detention, during the 16 months he's been here. >> two for battery, two for ab battery and one for, i guess, advancing toward a deputy, i think that one was bs. >> 6 1/2 years earlier, at age 16, soto attacked another rival gang member, but with fatal results. he stabbed a man 79 times and was sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for murder. soto has been transferred back to the jail in order to challenge that sentence under

provisions of a new state sentencing law. he doesn't believe his disciplinary record in jail should affect the outcome. >> fighting doesn't mean i'm going to kill somebody. there is a big difference between one or the other. >> coming up, i see you got some ink on your stomach. can i see it? >> deputies take a hard look at soto. and -- >> you got this thing in here that you're not going to snitch on nobody. >> pastor tina hits a nerve with marquell. hashtag "no sleep." i got it. hashtag "mouthbreather." yep. we've got a mouthbreather. well, just put on a breathe right strip and ... pow! it instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than cold medicine alone. so you can breathe ... and sleep. shut your mouth and say goodnight mouthbreathers. breathe right.

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inside the jail -- ♪ church service is under way. and one inmate volunteered to lead the prayer. >> put a word in our heart that will give us a different outlook on life. draw us closer to you. >> marquell dean says he's left gang banging behind him.

>> in jesus' name, amen. >> dean had recently been sentenced to 20 years in prison for theft. assaulting a police officer, and seven counts of failure to register as a violent offender. while in prison, he received a new charge of first degree murder, for allegedly shooting a man at a warehouse party. dean was transferred back to the sedgwick county jail, to stand trial in the neighboring courthouse. eight years earlier, he faced a different murder charge. also for allegedly shooting a man at a party. >> nobody ever said i shot or did anything. they just seen -- found out a gang member was there, you know, they pinned it on me, but here for a whole year. >> many hit the ground and the lord said you just spun out of it. >> during that year, dean got to know pastor tina, who predicted what would happen with this case. >> because god sets you free.

>> i prayed for him. i laid hands on him. the spirit of the lord said, you will not do the time they're trying to give you. and service wept nt on as usual. and then several months later, he got released. god let him go. >> she got word from god i was going to go home. i was sitting here not knowing if i was ever going to go home. that case ended up getting threw out. i went home. >> let me tell you, if you profess you belong to god, you're going to walk out the doors and walk away from god, i guarantee i'll see you back. because the devil going to do everything he can to bring you back into bondage. and that's what happens over and over and over until you get sick and tired of being sick and tired. >> after dean's release, he attended the church on the outside, and even did some preaching there. >> one of my star students, because god always had his hand

on this young man, he just didn't know it. but god begin to speak it and god begin to groom him and get him ready and he did what he is supposed to do, got out of here, and he came on the church and pastor put him to work. he was at the church, he preached at church, tore the place up. and i think part of it scared him. because after you preached that sermon, you left the next week. and -- but check this out, god knew he would do it. what did he tell you in if y? if you go back out there, the very thing he delivered you from, you will be ensnared by it again. >> yeah. >> did not the lord tell you the truth? >> yeah. >> lo and behold, you know, i fell back and the same thing, just street life, the gang lifestyle, it got me.

>> though pastor tina predicted the dismissal of dean's earlier murder charge, she's less certain this time. >> marquell is on another journey. this time i think he'll settle it. didn't get it right the last time. >> you standing there looking stupid. >> dean said he's innocent this time as well. but he would never identify the real killer. even if he knew who it was. though he says he has shed gang life, he cannot violate the long-standing code against snitching. pastor tina says that's a code whose time is up. >> you got this thing in here that you not going to snitch on nobody. you come in here, you know whatever the case may be, i'm giving you a scenario, you got in a situation, situation went bad, your friend shot the dude, you didn't have plans of shooting anybody, and because you're with him, you come to jail. i tell you all the time, you

better be glad, praise god he saved me first. other side be glad i was never with you in the crime. if it went down and you shot him and i didn't, i'm going to sing like a mockingbird. you better understand something. because you so busy trying to hold it down, you going to do 25 to life and probably the one that shot him is going to get out in about four years. >> as far as snitching and telling, yeah, look, somebody killed my mom. i'm not going to tell on him. you hear me? that's -- i promise you, why do i need to bring somebody else down? >> justice. >> no. i don't know what -- for real, i don't know what justice is. i know what just us is because i've been -- it has been against the system against me, justice against me my whole life. i don't understand justice. >> why shouldn't a person who killed james gary go to prison

for the rest of his life? >> god will work it out. and they will have to deal with somebody eventually. >> coming up -- >> i can hear something going on in the bathroom. i look in, i can't see anything there was a curtain half pulled. sounds like they're fighting. >> the deputy reports a fight. and says one of the combatants is jeremy honeycutt. i should take a closer look at geico... you know, geico can help you save money on your homeowners insurance too? great! geico can help insure our mountain chalet! how long have we been sawing this log? um, one hundred and fourteen years. man i thought my arm would be a lot more jacked by now. i'm not even sure this is real wood. there's no butter in this churn. do my tris look okay? take a closer look at geico. great savings. and a whole lot more.

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after soto threw coffee in the face of hill, the staff decided to update their intelligence files on him. when it comes to gang members, that usually involves documenting tattoos. >> most of the gang members are proud of their tattoos. they mean something to them and their fellow gang members. >> they can represent anything, from which subset of the gang one belongs to do past criminal acts. today, deputies will have a closer look at soto's ink. >> told us he was a south side soreno. and then has the ss tattoo on the back for south side. i'm guessing. but that's a 2009 picture. who knows what he has now. >> updated since then. >> sergeant woodson and corporal simmons pay a visit to soto's cell to see if he has acquired any new tattoos. and if he will consent to having the tattoos photographed. >> i see you have some ink on your stomach. can i see it?

>> sure. want me to get up? >> yes. >> how long have you had that? >> a while. >> a while. okay. i was 17 -- i've seen this stuff on your back. i hadn't seen that. you want to tell me about it or is it just art? >> just -- >> just art? >> mm-hmm. pretty much. >> okay. all right. no problem. >> is there any way we can get a picture of those? >> you want to let me take a picture of your stomach? >> do i have a choice? >> yeah, yeah. you got a choice. >> i don't care. >> said he don't care. >> get dressed. i'll take you down there. >> throw a shirt on if you would. >> i was surprised, were you? >> no, i wasn't surprised. most of the gang members are proud of their tattoos.

a lot of them will just say yeah. and some of them will grin at you and say no. take him downstairs. >> okay. >> while they photograph his tattoos in the booking area, corporal brown searches his cell for gang correspondence, weapons, or other contraband. >> they search the cell last time, they found a homemade weapon, in a doritos bag, underneath the desk. >> soto is serving 50 years to life in prison for the murder of a rival gang member. he's been transferred back to the jail, in order to challenge that sentence under a new state sentencing law. according to authorities, he stabbed a man 79 times. soto still maintains his innocence. >> main witness in my case said that everything happens under a minute. so that was about one or 1.5

times per second or something like that. but, yeah. i don't know. sounds to me a little outrageous. i guess that's all the evidence pointed at. >> all right, cool, thank you. >> the crime occurred when soto was 16 years old. >> 50 years to life. it is a mandatory minimum of 50 years before i see a parole board. mostly just shock. kind of numb. i lost everything. my immediate family is still there, but all the other ones, friends, chance at life, you know, sometimes having kids. nobody likes to -- what it is like it have a job, a family of your own. i lost all that. >> soto did not testify in his trial. and like other gang members, says he wouldn't have named the murderer even if he knew who it

was. >> not bringing other people down, you know, i didn't want to be put in that position. >> even if it meant the rest of your life in prison? >> i'm still trying to fight that. i hope it doesn't mean that. but -- >> back at soet ytsoto's cell, search turns up no contraband but soto may have problems to come. it is still too soon to know if he'll be criminally charged for attacking hill in full view of jail surveillance cameras. but the cameras cannot see every part of the jail. and deputies say another gang member has just used that knowledge to assault an inmate. deputy brent, assigned to the unit, says she didn't see the fight, but definitely heard it. >> i could hear something going on in the bathroom. i look in, i can't see anything, there is a curtain half pulled. sounds like they're fighting. >> deputy brent ordered the men

to stop, and come out from behind the curtain. the gang member involved was double amputee jeremy honeycutt. he said he and the other inmate who did not wish to be identified were only arguing. >> just words. most of the time it is words. people fight with words. >> deputy brent asked both men if they were fighting. >> the other guy says they were. honeycutt denied it all. >> i didn't touch him. >> he didn't hit you? >> no, he did not. >> no. >> so what are you guys upset about? >> he called everyone in the pod a -- i had words for him, he had words for me, talking [ bleep ]. he had words for everybody in the pod. >> honeycutt has done a lot of time in this facility. he knows how to get around the system. >> sergeant tucker reviews the surveillance footage. honeycutt is seen following the other inmate into the bathroom. >> we cannot film inside the bathroom because we cannot put cameras on people when they're changing or going to the

bathroom or anything like that. >> so theoretically if someone was going to plan a fight, the best option to not get caught would be going to the bathroom? >> that's correct. >> i need you to put your initials there saying you don't want a hearing. >> sergeant tucker offers honeycutt 15 days in disciplinary detention for starting the fight. but honeycutt oscar siexercises right to refuse. though he risks more time in detention if the hearings officer determines he did start the fight. >> i'm innocent. evidence speaks for itself and they don't have any evidence. i expect to be found not guilty on this one. i didn't do nothing. so -- >> coming up, marquell encounters an olded aer have ta adversary. scandal alert! flo likes dairy?! woman: busted! [ laughter ] right afterwards we caught her riding shotgun with a mystery man. oh, yeah! [ indistinct shouting ]

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inside the sedgwick county jail, housing units occupy predominantly by gang members are often hotbeds for sudden violence. marquell dean is considered to be one of the most notorious gang members. he said it's in the past and his unit is amiable. >> over there cooking on the hot pot. throw that on here. >> dean combines a variety of snacks purchased from the jail commissary to make a platter of jailhouse nachos for the other men in the unit. he even invites deputy matisse to join them. >> you crunch those down like a powder? >> not like a powder. just in big chunks. >> i would call myself a foodie. i love food. being in the jail, i noticed that they take five, six simple

ingredients, put it together and make one meal. just like the nachos. >> this right here is going to all come together. what you're about to see is something real, real nice come to fruition. a little bit of nothing is going to make something. dig what i'm saying? >> just things they can make in the time they spend with it is -- shows their creative side. >> try it out. >> oh. >> in jail, dean says he knows how to interact with staff without being perceived as a snitch. >> even when you chew it, sit back like this. mm. >> we ain't going to be talking about no crimes or cases or, you know, we ain't going to get deep. of course they are, you know, i

oppose them and everything. but at the same time, though, nothing to just to be starting issues with the guards just because they're a guard. that's stupid. that's going to make my time hard. >> take it easy, man. you too. >> this is a controlled environment. out there, i don't got to deal with them. in here, i got to deal with them. i'm going to make my time as cool as can be. >> dean's cool is put to the test when he receives a visit from an old adversary. >> remember me? i looked in here and i thought, man, i know you. you're marquell, aren't you? >> yeah. >> how are you? >> hanging tight. >> sheriff easter is the former wichita police lieutenant who headed a task force to put 50 gang members in federal prison. and pursued cases against dozens more, including marquell dean. >> it has been a long time since i talked to you, probably when i was in the gang unit. >> mm-hmm. >> he used to work the beat, work the streets out there. that was the arch nemesis out

there. awkward for real. he's one of the ones, you know, yeah, i won't say it well with him. i don't hold no hate or nothing against him no more. but just uneasy feeling. can never lose that, i guess. >> well, are they treating you all right in here? >> you know. >> it is jail. >> yeah. know what i'm saying. i stay out the way. know what i mean? i stay out their way. >> mama doing already? i haven't seen her in a while? >> yeah, mom's working. >> mr. dean was a gang member at a very young age. and had numerous interactions with him, got to know his mother through that time as well. had different interactions with her because of some of the things that marquell was allegedly had done at the times that we were looking for him. >> mama didn't even know where you were, was worried to death we were going to do something when we found you and all that

stuff. just a bad deal. >> yeah, she was real worried, man. >> yeah. >> choices and decisions i made. >> yeah. moms will be that way, though. >> they will. i can't blame her. >> forever. >> yeah. >> all right, man. >> good seeing you. good luck to you. like with most gang members, if you get them one-on-one, it's interactions like that. if you get them with more than one or two or three of them, then it's usually the bravado stuff and won't talk to you, or if they do have something to tay, it's not very friendly. so it's all about respect. if you interact with folks like that in a respectful manner, they usually deal with you in kind. >> coming up -- >> no incident took place. no fight took place. i never touched him. he never touched me. >> jeremy honeycutt mounts a defense. and -- >> you're going to serve him no matter where you are. >> yeah. >> and that's the assignment upon your life. >> mar kwrkts ushlths el hears

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inside the sedgwick county jail, jeremy honeycutt has been placed on temporary lockdown because deputies say that 24 hours earlier, he got into a fight with another inmate. he is about to have a hearing on the matter, which could result in him being taken off lockdown immediately or spending up to 25 days in disciplinary detention. lieutenant walker wi, who will conduct the hearing, has just watched surveillance footage of the alleged fight, which occurred behind a bathroom curtain. >> one of them gets up, goes in the bathroom. then mr. honeycutt follows in his wheelchair. then you can't quite see them fighting. you can see shoulders moving like punches being thrown, but the curtain's in the way. so you can't physically see it, but you can tell that, you know, like i said from the way the shoulders are moving that punches are being thrown. >> i think they should pretty much find me not guilty, but

we'll see what happens. >> honeycutt says he and the other inmate, who asked to remain anonymous, were only arguing and that it never got physical. >> it looked like they served you anoti notice. what can you tell me or what are you willing to tell me? >> no incident took place. no fight took place. i never touched him. he never touched me. that's point blank what it is. >> okay. well, basically the evidence is a review of the video shows that punches are being thrown by the shoulder movements that i can see. the deputy writes in her report that you guys were involved in a physical altercation from what she saw. >> she didn't see nothing. i mean regardless, you know, she's just at the desk the whole time. the beat officers clearly point that out. i didn't have no bruises. no physical altercation took place. verbal, yes. but physical, no. >> okay. all right. like i said -- >> i mean that's -- >> from the video, it shows both

shoulders moving on both gentlemen like punches are being thrown, so -- at the present time, based on the deputy's report, i'm going to go ahead and uphold the sanctions. so 15 days from today would be the december 26th at 2:00 in the afternoon. and then since you're already in the best cell possible, i'm going to leave you there if that was one of your questions. >> nah. >> you got anything else? >> nah. >> honeycutt will spend the next 15 days on disciplinary detention. he will be confined to his cell 23 hours per day and lose several other privileges. >> it don't really bother me. i just want to get it over with, you know, get back to my routine. >> because y'all been trying to get it sideways. >> part of marquel dean's routine is attending church services with pastor tina. >> this verse out of timothy, chapter 2, verse 11. it says this is a faithful saying. if we die with him, we should also live with him. >> pastor tina first took dean

under her wing eight years earlier when he was in jail on a murder charge. >> if we are faithful, he remain faithful. >> she says she felt god planned to let dean walk free, and he did a year later when the charge was dismissed. >> he cannot deny himself. >> but now he's back facing another murder charge, though dean says regardless of how it turns out, he has given up gang life. >> this time i think he got it. i think he got it. the last time when he was here, he almost had it. this time, you know, he found out there's nobody there but him and god. >> my mind is totally made up that i'm not going to gang-bang no more. like that's it. that's over with. all of that is over with. you know, it ain't no if, ands or buts or maybes about that. >> i told you there's an enemy, and we have to constantly be aware that there's an enemy we're dealing with. god is raising you for such a time as this because the enemy is trying to snatch the young people. this place is full of young people with that sick mindset. it's a sick mindset.

>> yeah, there's a few of them around in the pod. babies. >> yes. you going to serve him no matter where you are. >> yeah. >> and that's the assignment upon your life. >> my very ministry is around me right now, you know. >> mm-hmm. >> young, young -- some youngsters, some young fellas in the streets and gangs, you know what i'm saying? they're around me right now. sometimes i get so mad because i see myself in them. you know what i mean? i see what i used to be in them, and i be wanting to explain to them. but it's like -- it's almost like can't do no talking to them. you know what i mean? i think about myself like it was hard to talk to me too, you know? and that's one thing i've been praying about, like, lord, show me how to get through to them, you know? >> dean is already serving a sentence of 20 years for theft, assaulting a police officer, and failure to register as a violent offender. if found guilty of murder, he could receive another 50 years to life. >> they're trying to throw the

book at him, and i understand that. but i don't feel he has to worry about it because he's going to go do some time. but i don't believe he's going to do all the time they're trying to give him. i think he's going to be okay if he stay the course and do what he's supposed to do. i think he'll be out before we know it. the pulpit is still open and waiting for you. >> amen. >> love you. >> love you too. >> precious father, in the mighty name of jesus, we gave you praise and glory for this time. we honor you for this moment just to come before you.

>> 1025, all available respond to the area. >> members of the jail's most predatory gang set their sites on vulnerable prey. >> i slammed the door. >> the jail officials are determined to show who is in charge. >> this is my jail, ain't nobody in here going to run nothing in here but me. >> smeared feces all over his body and the walls and doors. >> another inmate has an apparent breakdown.