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/s >> announcer: due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> a gang member throws hot coffee in the face of a rival. leaving the man burned and possibly blind in one eye. losing both legs hasn't stopped another inmate from being part of a gang either. and one of wichita's most notorious gang leaders is back in jail, and this time he's got something to say.
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wichita, kansas and surrounding sedgwick county take pride in the wild west roots. law men like wyatt earp spent a lot of time here like billy the kid. billy's gang would be seriously outgunned. >> we're in the crossroads in the middle of the country. we're getting not just the west coast gangs, we're also getting some of the upper midwest gangs like from chicago and milwaukee, east coast stuff. it's all coming through here. >> in 2007 lieutenant with the wichita police department put a major dent in the area's gang population.
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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. we were the lead agency on it. we were able to convict about 50 crip gang members for various charges from distribution of cocaine to ric owe, to rico societies, a plethora of things. eradicated the crip gang, the largest gang we had. >> along with other duties, sheriff jeff easter over sees the sedgwick county jail. most of the 1200 inmates here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial and the resolution of their cases. among them is a man regarded as one of wichita's most notorious gang leaders. marquel is known on the street by his gang nickname, c 3. >> you put fare in your heart. you put your head. somebody you don't look into the eye. >> that was somebody that didn't
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play. >> yeah, didn't play. >> dean says today, however, he's a different sort of leader. >> and it's in prove earns 12-1 whoever loves instruction loves knowledge. but he who hates correction is stupid. >> that's right. >> you got to want to get it together, man. you can't keep doing the same thing. i had a name out there, you know. my name is still thriving in negative light. i'm trying to change that now. i'm putting forth effort to change that now. i want my name as light, not dark, you know. >> it was president c 3 no more, it's market. you want to spend the rest of your life in jail? it was stuff i needed to hear. the word in the bible, he's helping me out. >> i hate being called c-3. i hate that with a passion. i laid my flag down on my own. i confessed it out of my mouth that i'm not gang banging no more. i'm through banging.
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whoever comes up to me, what's up, c 3? new york ci no, i'm not c 3 no more, i'm marquel. ♪ >> dean regularly attends church services in the jail's chappell. >> marquel, i've known him for quite a while. he was a pretty wild kid. addicted to gang banging. when i first saw him, i knew he was a preacher. i knew he was from the first time i saw him. even as bad as he was what he was in there for. i believe god is going to give him favor. >> dean's past is very much a part of his present and could haupt him for the rest of his life. two years earlier, dean was on the wichita p.d.'s ten most wanted gang members list. at the time he was an active member of the crips with a history of violent convictions including multiple accounts of aggravated assault and
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aggravated battery. >> they felt i had a lot to do with a lot of what was going on. 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 reevaluate his life. >> i started to see life for what it really was because i'm seeing like i ain't getting no younger, i got my kids out here. i was really feeling a whole lot of guilt, you know, feeling worthless and feeling stupid for real. i had a revelation of god's majesty. i'm sitting there and i'm talking about i just had an unexplainable state of peace overtake me. >> but one year later, dean was overtaken by u.s. marshals who arrested him in texas and returned him to wichita. deend received a 20-year prison sentence for theft, a
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semi-automaticing a police officer, and seven counts of fail to register as a violent offender. >> i was just settling in on the fact okay, i'm in prison now, let me get my routine together and start knocking out this time, you know. i was 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 has 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, and one of them, 27-year-old james gary, was killed. >> evidently they're accusing me of shooting somebody. it ain't a lot that could go -- that couldn't go on that my name wasn't brought up in. >> were you at the party? >> no, i don't want to -- no comment. i don't want to comment on that. >> do you know who killed james? >> no comment.
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>> 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 could have a pod that could have a handful of bloods, handful of crips, a handful of surenos you'll have some beef they have in the streets bleed over into here. fights will happen. >> soto, a member of the surenos agrees. >> it's tough. you put the most violent people you had to take out of society in a pod and you expect them to live peaceful? not going to happen. >> we try to keep it that way. there's certain people that don't know how to act.
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>> some here believe that includes soto himself. surveillance cameras capture him in his housing unit pouring hot coffee into a large cup. he takes a sip of the coffee and approaches a group of inmates including da nell hill, a member of a different gang, the bloods. soto suddenly 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 and burns on his torso, hill tries to fight back, only to slip on spilled coffee. and these maximum security housing units, inmates are supervised by deputies and secured observation stations who have now called for back up to restrain the inmates. one minute and 25 seconds after
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the start of the fight, a team of deputies swarmz the unit. the action is caught on a body camera worn by sergeant link. >> break it up. right now. >> i had a taser out ready in case he did not comply. the 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's deputies to the jail's medical clinic. >> we're going to clean you up. >> what's your name, snir >> hill, darnell hill. >> after medical staff provides initial treatment for his burns, hill is taken to a local hospital for observation. soto injured his thumb and wrist and had they have 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. it wasn't something between the inmates and none of them will talk about it. ain't no such thing as a fair
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fight in here. everybody is going to have an edge somehow. blind siding them, throw coffee in their face, nothing is fair fight. >> coming up. regelio soto and da nell hill all speak out about the attack. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say: if you love something... set it free. see you around, giulia ♪ their competitors' rates
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no jail, including wichita's sej quick county jail can guarantee a safe haven from violence. so, with time on their hands, many inmates do all they can to maintain fitness, including jeremy honey cut, who has not let being a double amputee slow him down. >> i do everything from play basketball to swim to fighting, i do all kinds of stuffer. usually because of my time i got
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in and because my street crew, all that's correct people know not to mess with me. >> over the past 17 years, honey cut has 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 has pled not guilty. if convicted, his maximum sentence is nine years in prison. >> it sounds kind of crazy saying this, but this is -- i mean, this is like what i call home. >> over the years honey cut has learned how to take care of himself as a disabled person behind bars. >> i've lifted weights most of my life. you have to be prepared for anything. when you're going to fight and you're the under dog, you have to make sure to be the aggressor. in prison anything can happen. they don't come with this all the time, they come with knives,
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they come with locks, they come with pipes. they don't fight fair. you have to be able to get on if it comes down to taechlt for inmates like honey cut, the jail is supplied with standards set forth by the americans with disabilities act. >> they just have to be in a room that has a pole next to the toilet. they have to have a lowered mirror so they can see, and able to get on and off their chair onto the toilet, use the sink, and such. >> honey cut says he lost his legs at age 6. he was walking home from school with a couple of friends. >> the train tracks were between my house and school so we saw this train and decided to jump. they didn't have no signs or nothing, so, we jumped on the train. i slipped, i fell. and i woke up in the hospital and my legs, they were gone. a lot of surgeries, a lot of dealing to cope with everything in school, going back to school, being made fun of and get ing into a lot of altercations with other kids and basically working myself up through the ranks.
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>> honey cut says members of a gang called the spanish disciples provided protection for him in school. he eventually 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. i got other wounds in the back of my head. i got stabbed 12 times in my back, punctured a lung. that was from a rival gang member. i have a big chunk missing from my stomach where i was shot, they had to remove part of my stomach, large intestine. being shot is worse than getting stabbed. i'd rather get shot than stabbed. >> another gang member, danel hill can now have a disability as well. he's recovering in the jail's medical clinic following an assault by rival gang member, regelio soto. >> the doctor said probably a little bit loss of vision, but other than that everything is fine. >> two days earlier,
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surveillance cameras captured soto throwing hot coffee into hill's face, then unleashing a barrage of puniches. he'll have difficulty defending himself. deputies responded within 90 seconds, but the damage was done. >> break it up. break it up. >> this eye is swollen. this got a lot of coffee in it. i have second degree burns on my neck and my chest area. it's part of the life-style. it's normal. i usually heal pretty fast. just a minor set back for a major come back. >> 13 days earlier, hill was released from prison where he was serving time for burglary. after seven days on the outside, he was arrested on a new charge of aggravated robbery to which
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he has 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, things just happen some time. i don't know what it was for. comes with the life-style. 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, but some make it and some don't. >> hill receives daily treatment for his burns in the jail's medical clinic. >> you're 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 been really tough. he's acting like it doesn't hurt him at all. he's saying he doesn't care. he's tough. i don't know how he's doing it, but i couldn't. >> it's a lot worse than i
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thought. how are you doing? >> my burns are worse than you thought it was? >> not the burns, but just getting beat up and all. >> the doctor is the jail's medical director. >> did you pass out at all when this happened? >> no. >> okay. the degree of piz burns now 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 about his right eye which took the brunt of the coffee. >> is your right eye blurry? 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 it's not reacting very well right now and that's a result of the trauma from getting hit. >> can you see okay out of this eye? >> yeah. open up this one for me, both eyes.
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>> his left eye will heal fine. he's seeing well out of it so we're not overly concerned about it. it's the eye he's having loss of vision in that we're more concerned about. can you see light? >> looks like two. >> you can see a finger. >> yeah. >> he's going to need some close follow-up with the eye doctors to make sure his eye heels appropriately and we give him the best chances to have a full function down the road. >> this doesn't even hurt? >> no. it's just a burn. >> despite his injuries, hill says he will not press charges against soto. >> can't tell. tale that will follow you. pressing charges gets you in trouble. it's just the way it is. comes with the life-style. >> what i know about life-style there is usually retaliation. >> could be. >> danel hill. you don't know the man you threw
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hot coffee on and beat up? >> no. >> following rules laid out by the surenos regarding media, soto agreed to speak with us only in the presence of a senior gang member who would monitor the interview to ensure that he would not reveal any confidential information about the surenos. the senior member requested anonymity. >> can you tell me why you would walk up to a complete stranger and throw hot coffee on his face and beat him up? >> no. i can't talk about that. >> why hot coffee? >> i think it's still the same subject. >> why not just walk up and punch somebody? >> still -- just jail stuff. not minor, but a misunderstanding between two
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parties. >> but you don't know him. >> i was with him in the pod for a couple 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 in disciplinary detention where he will spend up to 23 hours per day locked in a single-man cell and lose most privileges. this is the 6th time soto has been in detention during the 16 months he's been here. >> two for battery, two for ag battery, and one for i guess advancing aggressively towards a deputy, which i think that one was b.s. >> 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
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to the jail and ordered 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's a big difference between one or the other i would think. >> coming up. >> i see you have some ink on your stomach. can i see it? >> deputies take a hard look at regelio soto. and. >> y'all got this thing in here you're not going to snitch on nobody. >> pastor tina's sermon hits a nerve with marquel dean. preserv, sweeteners, flavors, or colors. panera. food as it should be. ♪ some things are simply impossible to ignore. the strikingly designed lexus nx turbo and hybrid. the suv that dares to go beyond utility. experience amazing.
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powerful gang leaders says he has 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. 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, you know. i guess they just seen -- found out that a gang member was there, you know. they pinned it on me. but i sat in here for a whole year. >> man, he hit the ground and the lord said you spun outs of it. >> during that year dean got to know pastor tina who predicted
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what would happen with this case. >> because god sets you free. i prayed for him. when 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 went on as usual. thank god, we prayed, cried, whole nine years. true enough, several months later he got released. god let him go. >> she got a word from god that i was going to go home. i was sitting here not knowing if i was ever going home. that case ended up getting threw out and i went home. >> let me tell you, if you stand up and profess you belong to god and walk out these doors and walk away from god, i guarantee you, i'm going to see you back because the devil is going to do everything he can to bring you back into bondage, and that's what happens over and over until you get sick and tired of being sick and tired. >> after his release, he attend pastor tina's church on the
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outside and even did some preaching. >> god always had his hand on this young man, did you he didn't know it. god began to speak in him and groom him and get him ready and he did what he's supposed to do, he got out of here and he came on to church and pastor put him to work. he was at the church. he preached at my church. holy ghost moved in there so much, tore the place up. and i think part of it scared him. because after you preached that sermon, you left the next week. but check this out. god knew he was going to do it because before he left, what did the lord tell you? he told you that if you go back out there -- >> yeah. >> 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, i fell back and the same thing, the street life, you know what i mean?
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the gang life-style. it got me. >> though pastor tina predicted the dismissal of dean's earlier murder charge, she is less certain this time. >> marquel is on another journey, but this time i believe he's going to sit a little minute because he didn't get it right the last time. he walk off and leave you standing. >> dean says 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 still cannot violate the long-standing code against snitching. pastor tina preaches, that's a code whose time is up. >> i want to talk to you about that because y'all got this thing in here that you're not going to snitch on nobody, you know what i'm saying? you come in here, both y'all on the case. you know, whatever the case may be, i'm just giving you a scenario. you got in a situation, your friend shot the dude, you had no plans of shooting nobody but he shot him. because you're with him you come to jail.
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we're quiet because i don't want to be labelled as a snitch. i tell you all the time, you better be glad, praise god, he saved me first. the other side be glad i was never with you in a crime because if it went down and you shot him and i didn't, i'm going to sing like a mocking bird. you better understand something. i'm going to tell you something, you're so busy trying to hold it down, you're fixing to go do 25 to life and probably the one that shot him is going to get out in four years. >> as far as snitching and telling, yeah, i mean, look, somebody killed my mom. i'm not fixing to tell on them, you hear me? i promise you, why do i need to bring somebody else down? >> justice. >> no, it ain't -- i don't know, for real, i don't even know what justice is. i know what just us is because i've been -- it's been against the system being against me, justice been against me my whole life, you know? so, i don't understand justice. >> why shouldn't the person who
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killed james gary pay the price for that? go to prison for the rest of his life, why not? >> god will work it all out and they will have to deal with somebody eventually. >> coming up. >> i could hear something going on in the bathroom. i look in, i really can't see anything because the curtain is half pulled. sounds like they're fighting. >> the deputy reports a fight and says one of the combatants is jeremy honey cut. no, i'm good. come on, moe. i have to go. (vo) we always trusted our subaru impreza would be there for him someday. ok. that's it. (vo) we just didn't think someday would come so fast. see ya later, moe. (vo) introducing the all-new subaru impreza. the longest-lasting vehicle in its class. more than a car, it's a subaru.
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i'm dar a brown with the hour's top stories. thousands of demonstrated gathered in new york city in a march of solidarity in support of muslims in response to president trump's travel ban. new york mayor bill da blaz yo was in attendance. president trump could potentially do another round of interviews monday for the national security advisor role left vacant by the resignation of michael flynn. it is unclear whether he would interview new or existing candidates in this next round. trump held several interviews sunday at mar-a-lago. now back to "lockup."
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>> announcer: due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> after surenos gang member threw coffee in the face of danel hill, staff decided to update their intelligence files on him. when it comes to gang members, that usually involves documenting tatoos. >> most gang members are proud of their tatoos. it means something to them and their fellow gang members. >> they could represent anything from which subset of the gang one belongs to to past criminal acts. today deputies will have a closer look at soto's ink. >> he told us had he was a south side sureno. and he has the ss tatoo on the back for south side i'm guessing. that's a 2009 picture so who knows what he has now. >> he's probably been updated since then. >> sergeant wood son and corporal simmons then pay a visit to soto's cell to see if
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he has acquired any new tatoos and if he will consent to having his tatoos photographed. >> i see you have some ink on your stomach. can i see it? >> how long have you had that? >> awhile. >> awhile? okay. i've seen this stuff on your back. i just hadn't seen that. you want to tell me about it or is it just art? just art? >> uh-huh, pretty much. >> all right. no problem. >> pictures of those in booking? >> you'll let me take a picture of your stomach? >> do i have a choice? >> yeah, you have a choice. >> get dressed. i'll take you down there. >> put a shirt on, if you would.
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>> i was surprised when he said you can go ahead and photograph my tatoo? >> most are proud of their tatoos. some will say yeah, some will grin and say no. >> while deputies photograph soto's tatoos in the booking area, corporal brown searches his cell for gang correspondence, weapons or other contraband. >> when they searched the cell last time, they found a homemade weapon in a dor ito's bag underneath the desk. >> soto is serving 50 years to life in prison for the murder of a rival gang member. he has 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
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innocence. >> my main witness in my case said that everything happened in under a minute. so, that was about one or 1.5 times per second or something like that. but, yeah, i don't know, that sounds to me a little outrageous to tell you the truth. i guess that's all the evidence put it. >> cool, thank you. >> the crime occurred when soto was 16 years old. >> 50 years to life so it's a mandatory of 50 years before i can see the parole board. it was mostly just shock. i was kind of numb. i lost everything. my immediate family is still there, but all the other ones, friends, chance at life maybe, sometime having kids. know what it feels like to have a job, a family of your own. i mean, i lost all that.
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>> soto did not testify in this trial. and like other gang members, says he wouldn't have named the murderer even if he knew who it was. >> you defend yourself. but as long as you're out bringing other people down, i depth want to be put -- didn't 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 soto's cell, corporal brown's search turns up no contraband, but soto may still have problems to come. it's still too soon to know if he will 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 who was assigned to the unit says she didn't see the fight, but definitely heard it.
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>> i could hear something going on in the bathroom. i look in, i really can't see anything because there is a curtain kind of 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 that he and the other inmate did not wish to be identified were only arguing. >> just words, most of the time in here it's words, you know what i'm saying in people will 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 hit him, i didn't touch him. >> he didn't hit you? >> no, he did not. >> and, so, what are you guys upset about? >> well, he called everyone in the pod a bitch. he had words for everybody in the pod. >> to me honeycutt has done a lot of time in this facility and he knows how to get around the system. >> as sergeant tucker reviews the surveillance footage, honeycutt is seen following the
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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 somebody was going to plan a fight, the best option to not get caught would be going into the bathroom. >> that's correct. >> i need to you put your initials right there saying you want the hearing, the bottom line there. >> sergeant tucker offers honeycutt 15 days in disciplinary detention for starting the fight. but honeycutt exercises his right to refuse and to defend himself in a hearing instead, though he risks more time in detention if the hearings officer determines that he did start the fight. >> i'm innocent. evidence speaks for itself. they have no evidence, so, i expect to be found not guilty on this one. i didn't do nothing, so. >> coming up. marquel dean encounters an old adversary. >> your mama doing all right? haven't seen her in a while.
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inside the sedgwick county jail, housing units occupied predominantly by gang members are often hot beds for sudden violence. marquel dean is considered to be one of wichita's notorious gang members. he says that's all in the past and his unit has been down right amiable. >> i have me, some hot chili and cheese cooking on the hot pot. throw that all on here. >> dean combines a variety of snacks purchased from the jail commissary to make a platter of jail house nachos for the other men in the unit. he eninvites deputy matthias to join him. >> you crunch it down like a poud er? >> not like a powder, they're just in big chunks. i crunch them down smaller. >> wouldn't call myself a
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foodie. i love food. being in the jail 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. >> okay. >> what you're about to see is some real, real nice coming to fruition. a little bit of nothing is going to make something. you dig what i'm saying? >> just the things that they can make in the time that they spend with it shows their creative sides. >> i'm going to let my fellas try that out, let me know what y'all think. hole on, hold on. wait. >> in jail, dean says he knows how to interact with staff without being perceived as a snitch. >> even when you chew it, you sit back like this. [ laughter ] >> we ain't going to be talking about no crimes or cases, you
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know. we ain't fixing to get deep. of course, they are -- you know, i oppose them and everything, but at the same time, though, not fixing to just be starting no issues with the guard just because they a guard. that's stupid. that's going to make my time hard. >> you take it easy. you, too. >> this is a controlled environment, you know what i mean? out there, i don't got to deal with them. in here i have to deal with them. so, 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. >> you remember me? i looked in here and i thought, man, i know you. you're market, aren't you? >> yeah. how are you doing? >> good, 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 marquel dean. >> it 's been a long time sincei talked to you, probably when i was in the gang unit. >> he used to work the beat,
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work the streets out there. that was the arch nemesis out there. man, it's awkward for real. he's one of them, you know -- yeah, i don't sit well with them. i don't hold no hate or nothing against him no more or nothing. it's just an uneasy feeling. you can never lose that, i guess. >> well, are they treating you all right in here? >> yeah, man, you know. >> it's jail. >> yeah. you know what i'm saying? i stay out of the way. you know what i mean? i stay out of their way so i don't have to -- >> your mama doing all right? i haven't seen her in a while. >> mom is working. >> mr. dean was a gang member at a 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 marquel was allegedly had done at the time we were looking for him. >> your mom didn't know where
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you were, was worried to delgt we were going to do something when we found you and all that stuff. it was a bad deal. >> yeah, she was real worried, man. choices and decisions i >> all right. >> like with most gang members. if you get them one-on-one, it is ant actions like that. if you get more than one, two or three, it is the bravado stuff and won't talk to you. or if they have something to say, it is not very friendly. so it is all about respect. if you interact with folks like that in a respectful manner, they deal with you in kind. >> coming up -- >> no incident took place. no fight took place. i never touched him. he never touched me. >> you're going to serve him no matter where you are. >> yeah. >> that's the assignment upon your life.
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inside the sedgwick county jail, jarrell has been placed on involuntary lockdown because deputies say 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 on disciplinary detention. the lieutenant who will conduct the hearing has just watched surveillance of the fight that occurred behind a curtain. >> it shows one of them gets up, goes into the bathroom. and then he follows in his wheelchair. you can't quite see them fighting. you can see shoulders moving. like punches being thrown but the curtain is in the way. you can't physically see it.
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but you can tell that like i said, from the way the shoulders are moving, the punches are being thrown. >> he says they were only arguing and that it never got physical. >> it looked like they served you a notice for battery. what can you tell me? what are you big to tell me? >> no incident took place. no fight took place. i never touched him. he never touched me. >> okay. well, basically, the evidence, it shows that punches are being thrown that i can see. the deputy writes in her report that you were involved in a physical altercation from what she saw. >> she didn't see nothing. i mean regardless, i don't have no bruises. no physical altercation took place. verbal, yes. physical, no. from the video it shows punches are being thrown. so at the present time, i'm
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going to uphold the sanctions. all right. so 15 days from today would be december 26th at 2:00 in the afternoon. since you're in the best cell possible, i'll leave you there. have you got any questions? >> no. >> hunnicut will spend the next 16 days on disciplinary, he will lose several privileges and be in there 23 hours a day. >> i just want to get back to my routine. >> i've been trying to get it sideways. >> part of the routine is being in church. >> 2 timothy 2:11, this is a faithful saying. if we die with him, we shall also live with him. >> pastor tina first took him under her wing eight years earlier when he was on a murder charge. she said she felt god plan to
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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. dean says regardless of how it turns out, he has given up gang life. >> this time i think he got it. the last time when he was here, he almost had it. this time, he done found out there age nobody but him and god. >> my mind is made up. i'm not going to gang bang anymore. all of that is over with. there ain't no ifs, ands or buts. >> we have to be aware that there is an enemy that we're dealing with. god is raising you up for such a time as this. the enemy is trying to snatch the young people.
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this place is full of young people with that sick mindset. >> yep. babies. >> you are going to serve him no matter where you are. >> yeah. and that's an assignment upon your life. my very ministry is around right now. youngsters in gangs, they're around me right now. sometimes i get so mad. because i see myself. i see what i used to be. i be wanting to explain to them. it is like you can't do no talking to them. i think of myself. it was hard to talk to me, too. that's what i'm praying about. show me how to get through to them. >> dean is serving 20 years for theft, assaulting a
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a police officer and failing to register as a violent offender. if found guilty of murder, he could be facing 50 years to life. >> they're trying to throw the book at him. i don't feel he has to worry about it. he is going to do some time but i don't believe he's going to do all the time they give him. i think he'll be okay if he stays the course and does what he's supposed to do. i think he'll be out before he knows it. the pulpit is still open. i'm waiting for you. >> amen. love you. >> i love you too. >> precious father, in the mighty name of jesus. we give you the praise and glory for this time. we honor you for this moment. just to come before you.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. it just comes from my imagination. just whatever i imagine, i can put on the paper. >> an inmate with incredible artistic abilities is charged with a terrible and tragic crime. while another inmate's seeming obsession with jail food causes problems. >> he's hungry. he doesn't see anything but the food. whatever's in his way, he will try to go through to get to it. >> and -- >> we both kind of agreed on this open relationship type of deal.
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