i'm lester holt and from all of us at nbc news, good night. due to ma sure subject matter, viewer discretion is advi advised. locked down, in a cell, one comes out, don't look very good. >> weeks away from completing his sentence, an inmate is accused of murder. >> front page news, i am. holy cow. looks like i'm a real topic, huh? >> one month later, an unrelated killing occurs in the jail. >> if you'd ask me a year ago, i

would have said we had a pretty good track record. >> i mean, considering in sacramento, i think, hard to hide. i really don't. >> a large woman with a personality to match loses everything to meth. >> i left my youngest son at the hospital. i was high when my water broke. too scared to call 911. >> an inmate causes a disturbance on the jail's transfer bus. >> thought he was trying to get away, doing something he shouldn't be doing. >> now he vows to cause more problems. >> i'm going to be a hack vok to these [ bleep ]. >> i think he wants to make sure we're doing work correctly. i think he's been trained by the officers. >> super secret cat based intelligence. it's been very successful. invaluable to us. >> you want to sit here and

[ bleep ] with this when you get in trouble? you want to wake up to this? come on. the birthplace of the gold rush, sacramento, known today as the capital of the nation's most populated state, though once regarded as a different capital. >> we were called the meth capital of the country, as, you know, undesirable distinction to be sure, but it really caused us and the federal government to the extempbt they provide grant money to attack the issue. it is not the crisis it has been, but it is making a resurgence.

at the main jail downtown, they are awaiting resolution of the cases. many like patricia struggled with methamphetamine addictions. i'm here for failure to enroll. i mean, considering i'm 6'3", a small girl in sacramento, i think. besides her height, there's one other thing that makes her stand out from the crowd. >> she does a fun nny trick wit her eyes. >> you want to sit here and [ bleep ] with this? you want to wake up to this? come on. you want to be a felon?

>> i've known her probably about four years. i've seen her on and off throughout the years working at this facility here. she's always usually been an inmate worker. she has the heart to where she wants to help people. it's not something we see a lot. >> i love my job. just to be able to be out. a personal relationship with staff. we get to build a trust. takes my mind off being in jail. i should reflecting on my crime. >> inmate workers are not paid, but they do get extra meals, which patricia says is compensation enough. >> these are all mine? yeah. >> some eat a lot more than other breeds of life.

i guess it's a discipline other cultures learn. don't eat all the food. breakfast, five or six trays. dinner, about the same amount. >> she could probably go over 20 trays. i would being like this and she'll be eating still. >> and new is a newby. she is slowly learning how to take them down. >> food was my first addiction. i can honestly say that. i didn't start doing a lot of drugs until 28. >> drugs have been at the root of all her troubles. she has served two prior prison terms on convictions including vehicle theft and assault. she is currently serving time for possession of methamphetamine and failing to report to a drug rehab program that could have kept her out of jail. in addition, she admits to having worked at a debt collector for drug dealers and transporting stolen cars to and from chop shops. >> my part of the deal was to

pick them up and take them to where they needed to be. i got paid a lot of money. >> most of that money was used to support her methamphetamine addiction. >> first time i used meth, it was fun, it was cool. it was the party drug. i went in full force, head first, swan dive in a tub of meth. just, ha, ha, ha. literally, i'll smoke it so much, they'll be loading it through the bowl while i'm still smoking. then soon as i take it out movie mouth, i'm like, oh. it's just [ bleep ]. that's the only way i can explain it when the hulk goes from human to beast. >> i'll be honest, i do eat a lot. when i'm on drugs, obsolete. food? okay. i eat in jail. other than that, it's back to this meth monster. yes. that's what i looked like when

what is coming in. i was literally under 200. when is the last time i was under 200 pounds? like 5, 5 years old? i'm not kidding. >> she says the greatest toll meth has taken has been on her family. she has six children raging in age from 11 to 17, but is no longer in contact with them. five live with her siblings and one with an uncle. she also distanced herself from her brothers and sisters due to shame over her addiction and the crimes she's committed to support it. >> our family is pretty closeknit. my parents died and my siblings are my glue to my life. my family means the world to me, but we've been separated for such a long time. it's been 11 years. 11 years since the last time i've seen them. i pushed them away. i just separated myself. i didn't want them to see me go

through a bunch of [ bleep ]. i would never disrespect them like that if my father was still here. meth. that wouldn't be on it. that's not just the love i had for my dad but the respect i had for my father. meth, jail. all this right now wouldn't be an option. wouldn't be in play in my life. i know that for a fact. i know that for a fact. >> coming up -- >> i was pretty in shock. i never seen anything like that. hope i don't have to see it again. >> patricia laughs on the outside while suffering from the inside. >> and -- >> i hit a guy one time. he fell back and hit his head. >> an inmate faces a murder charge. flr

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they call california the golden state. the countless number of men and women who traveled here to pursue their dreams. downtown sacramento, many of those dreams hit a wall. one of the great concrete walls is the county's main jail facility. ernest grew up in ohio but came to sacramento after his wife moved here. he says he was hoping to save the marriage. >> she had better things to do than mess around with an alcoholic. what is running wild. i was in california, dude. living the dream. my california dream starting going downhill real fast. >> salmons said his life descended into a fog of drinking, drugs, which led to gambling and crime. >> i didn't care about anything or anybody. i woke up in people's yard. i wanted it, i took it. it wasn't cool, i know, but i

didn't think right at all. >> he was also accident-prone. shortly before his arrest, he broke his wrist then reinjured it when he fell out of a tree. >> it's the little things that count in here. >> he keeps breaking his right foot. >> first time i broke it i jumped off a balcony. six months later, i dropped a manhole cover on it. then i stepped on, rebroke it. came here, fell out of a tree and rebroke it again. >> salmons was first arrested for vehicle theft and receiving stolen property when he was pulled over for speeding on a stolen motorcycle. he was able to bond out, but was arrested five weeks later for a second vehicle theft. salmons pled no contest and was sentenced to serve one year at the jail. >> jail was not my thing. only time i was in here i stayed on restriction.

tried to smoke cigarettes in here. >> salmons got into the kind of trouble that goes beyond cussing and smoking. he got upset with his 54-year-old cell mate. hours later, the cell mate laid dead in the cell. he pled not guilty. >> it was a freak accident. i hit the guy one time. he fell back and his hit head. if i knowed it in my hard i killed it, i wouldn't be fighting it. from what little thing i did for that little hit, i know that ain't enough to kill anybody. >> local press reports say his cell mate was known by friends and family to have limited mobility, mental health issues and was frequently homeless. he was in jail for failure to register as a sex offender. served two prior prison terms

for sex offender. they often make inmates target for violence. >> i didn't know that. that's why i thought maybe i got it. i didn't know any of that. >> salmons does say after about a week together, his celly was getting on his nerve. >> i was losing my mind. you better get in here or this guy is going to get hurt. i thought i was going to get out of the cell. i begged them. i was like, please get one of us out. the deputies wouldn't do anything about it. >> jail officials will not comment on open cases. >> we would love to counter what is being said, but for a number of different reasons, we cannot. it almost seems to give credibility to what's being said, when in reality it would be easy to discount what's being said. >> during their second week together, salmons says his cell

mate soiled himself. >> the guy was just all confused and disoriented and sat on my bad. he's leaking out of his pants. i didn't really lose my temper. i smacked him and he fell back and hit the concrete part, edge of my bunk when he went backwards. yeah he was bleeding. he bled pretty good. i had to change his clothes and change his shirt because he had blood on him. he was talking and everything's fine. >> salmons says several hours later, his cell mate was lying on the floor, but that he often slept on the floor. >> about 3:00 in the morning, i woke up and kicked his feet on the way to the bed. he didn't move. i knew something was wrong. i could feel it. >> salmons says he pressed the cell's emergency call button, but it took some 40 minutes for deputies to respond.

>> i can tell you nothing other than inmates lay all the time for their own reasons. this case was certainly no exception. you have to start with the premise i don't and none of the jail staff wants someone to get hurt. none us would. even if we were lacked any compassion at all, it's a lot of work and a lot of attention nobody wants. the reality is, none of us got into this job because we wanted to see lives end. we wanted to save lives. just because they are inmates, doesn't make us depart from what made us go into law enforcement. >> two of us locked in the cell, one comes out. don't look very good. i'm in here. >> coming up -- >> hiatus for the last two years. >> i do it under the bus but he heard the clank.

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on the steps of the capitol building in sacramento, a 3,500 pound bronze replica of the california state seal. it was forged by inmate welders at san quentin from 1952. of the jails in prison that offer vocational trading, welding has always been aamong the most common about. 20 miles south of sacramento's downtown jail sits its branch facility. it's here inmate welders carry on the tradition. >> you get that 9:00 to 5:00 job feeling like you're back on the streets working a job. i've been on a hiatus the last ten years doing nothing. at 52, i guess it's time i start doing what i should have probably been doing years ago.

>> overton is serving one year on his laters conviction, possession of a firearm by a felon. >> i haven't been in this jail since '90 something. i thought i would never see the inside of this one again. >> he served time in jail several times over the past 25 years on multiple counts of forgery, identity theft and drug possession. >> i've got the experience of welding. keep a job and get money put away finally instead of screwing around like an idiot like i have been a few years. >> the more experienced inmates take on jobs for outside clients such as this custom made steel firing. it helps pay for the program and the special training they receive.

inmates welders do a lot of work for the jail itself, including fabricating, installing the steel cages used in the transport advance and buses which they themselves ride from court and between facilities. one of them has just arrived from the downtown jail. a large group of inmates transferring. >> typically move about 35 inmates a day. the classifications vary. within the bus we have tanks. we have one three-man tank. that's how we separate the inmates. like different holding tanks. smaller and mobile. >> still, the 40-minute drive from the downtown jail to the jail can be daunting. >> there are two deputies assigned and we have a capacity of 51 inmates. learning to deal with 51 inmates with only your partner is the big task. we've had fights in the back.

there is not a whole lot we can do while traveling and driving. we will not stop and enter the tank. we'll drive to the nearest location. that could potentially be a 30-minute fight. >> at the center of attention today is a man serving one year of possession of controlled substance. he is in protective custody because he dropped out of his gang. >> they are lower than low. most of those guys are either gang dropouts. they've been convicted of sex assaults on children. so the other inmates are, you know, see them as people they want to assault. >> i just dropped out so i could do my time and that's it.

i'm pc. do your time. sad thing is you're doing your time with child molesters, homos, dirt bags and all kinds of garbage on that side. >> hard to deal with that? >> not really. i stay to myself all the time. even on the street. >> bobbadilla is in a holding cell. he was caught trying to smuggle an electric shaeffer under the bus. >> it's perfectly okay for them to have them and use them while in cells or living facilities, but not okay to have them on their person. they're not for them. they're for the whole pod. >> i was getting ready to get on the bus. i put it in my underwear pocket. i threw it under the bus. he heard it. >> i heard a thud. i asked him what that was.

he admitted he had thrown the shavers. he apologized. i said, light get through this. >> as bobadilla was about to board the bus, he dotted underneath it. >> he's trying to do something he shouldn't be doing. i run off the bus. i come around the corner and i seem him with the shaver in his hand. he had gone to retrieve the shaver. whatever process told him it was a good idea to crawl under the bus to get the shaver. he turned it over and we had a conversation about why that wasn't a good idea. we were able to transport him down here without incident after that. >> his actions resulted in a decision to place him in the jail's highest security housing unit. total separation where he will be confined in a single person's cell, 23 1/2 hours per day. >> hang on tight. >> i don't want to go there. i'm better off in the dorm.

>> i have to protect my officers. okay? >> that's okay if you get me a bunky, okay. >> hang tight. >> i got kids, man. >> i don't want you to lose your mind. >> i'm not going to lose my mind. >> if i go back to t-cell, i'm breaking out. i'm going to kick my door. flood my cell. i'm going to be a havoc to these [ bleep ]. i can play games. >> this is a write-up for disobedience. yesterday my cell got raided so they gave me another couple of write-ups. >> he fulfills his promise, but finds himself on the receiving end of other inmates' taunts. >> he wants to come out of the closet. that's his problem is. >> and --

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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. officials in texas are inside the downtown main branch of the sacramento jail county system, salmons is housed in a total separation but hasn't lost his sense of humor. >> how's my hair? >> total separation is total separation. you're by yourself. you move by yourself. you're transported by yourself. you have no more contact with an inmate except talking through a door. >> salmons and other t-sep inmates are only allowed to come out 30 minutes a day. >> shower time, getting your coffee. >> salmons started out as an average inmate celled with another inmate. no underlying reasons to be separated. he is accused of killing his cell mate. he cannot have another cell mate. >> salmons says he struck his 54-year-old cell mate with an open palm after the inmate soiled himself and sat on

salmons' bed. salmons says he has no idea how the man died a short time later. at the time, salmons was nearing the end of a one-year sentence for vehicle theft. >> we've got to start picking our jurors out. >> salmons must remain in jail awaiting trial for murder. if found guilty, he could get life without parole. >> i had those pigeons to come back to. every time i seen them, makes me think there's robin coming to see him again. >> salmons spends most of his free time talking to his many siblings in ohio. >> give him a kiss for me. keep an eye on the court dates. you'll see it on the computer. love you guys. be praying for you. all right.

>> one month after salmons' cell mate died. another inmate is charged with the murder of his cell mate. prior to these two suspected homicides. there had only been three murders at the main jail in its 26-year history the last was five years earlier. you think you've got a bunch of criminals in there, that would happen. if you asked me a year ago, i would said we have a good track record. if you do consider the 2,700 people are eligible for bail and average bail is $460,000, we have serious criminals in that jail. >> jail officials say violence increased over the past five years due in part to two factors. a recent law that requires county jails to house convicted felons who in the past would have gone to prison and dramatic increase in mentally ill population. >> lowering the level of potential violence, perhaps we didn't ask for this problem, perhaps it's simply because of

the differenting inmate population and mentality health issues, but it is our issue. it's not only incumbent but our obligation how best to address it and minimize it and reverse what is hopefully not a trend. >> front page news, i am. holy cow. looks like i'm a real topic, huh? >> now a local newspaper has run a front page article on the recent deaths. salmons agreed to an interview and is the focus of much of the article. >> that sucks, man. that's pretty painful. that's not the way wanted to be put in a paper. even though i look good, it's not how i wanted to be in the paper. story is i killed a guy and they are trying to say i'm a murderer and i'm not. it's hard living at once, man, having to go back and read this

again. it ain't so easy, either. the guy has a lot of issues, you know? it's just a strange way how things happen. i'm the one that's going to have to suffer for the consequences, whatever they may be. i'm not saying i murdered him either. i'm not going to say that. i can't. i know i put my hands on him and i didn't put my hands on enough to kill anybody. i thought being honest with the people, you know, honesty's the best policy. i guess you just got to know when to be honest. i knew there was going to be a lot of questions. i didn't think i was going to get charged with murder. >> g-55.

>> in another part of the jail, the mood is considerably lighter. thanks to recreation supervisor. n-31. >> our goal is to keep these guys active. keep them focused on things that are positive. 0-73. 0-73. thank you. we are like in between the deputies and the inmates. we are here to relieve the stress and anxiety these guys go through. and to hopefully it saves a lot of paperwork. what i mean by paperwork, i mean a lot of fights. o-65. close. >> he goes above and beyond his call of duty. when it comes to making us feel not so locked up. >> the purse for today's game is a candy bar.

>> the next one. i-18. >> bingo! >> wait a minute. hold on. >> i'd like to thank the county jail. >> you got it too? okay. >> drew's never seen me pull my eyes out. he was trying to avoid it. >> that was a good one. >> you need to throw your board away. >> just for that, you didn't win. >> i was pretty shocked. i'd never seen anything like that. hope i don't have to see it again. >> thanks a lot, girls. appreciate it. thank you. >> it's very important to see her to be excited. and i know that they're here for a reason, but i'm hoping that they learn something and when they get out, that they would do better. >> for patricia, doing better might mean reconnecting with her

children and siblings. she says she has avoided them the past 11 years due to her voracious addiction to meth and subsequent crimes that brought her to jail and prison. >> i have absolutely no relationship with any of my children. i would be surprised if any of them remember who i am. >> five of her children live with her siblings and with her uncle. the birth of her youngest son haunts her. >> i left my youngest son at the hospital. i was high when my water broke. too scared to call 911. i was going to have the baby right there in the house. somebody heard my yelling and called the ambulance. i went to the hospital and had the baby. was threatened by the police. i couldn't take him because he was born with traces of meth. soon as i came to, i noticed i wasn't pregnant any more. first person i called, my connect. i need you to come to the hospital and [ bleep ] me up.

where's the baby? i don't know. i didn't ask you. i need you to come pick me up. in the hospital, i didn't let them know i was leaving. they didn't discharge me. year later, my sister has pictures of him posted on facebook. and doesn't call me to tell me you're stupid, how dare you. calls me to tell me, look how pretty he is. he looks just like you. and he does. >> she recently missed an opportunity to avoid more jail time when she failed to appear on her latest court ordered facility. >> a monster. that's my nickname on the street. meth monster. it's terrible.

my focus is meth. meth, meth, meth. if you got it, i want it. if i ain't got the money for it, i'm taking it. for no other reason just to get high and stay high. my flame's a strong, strong family and it's obvious because they're still all together. i'm the one that left. i'm the one that still thinks it's okay to hide behind drugs. this jail to me is safe. my family tells me, we're so glad to see your name up there because we know you're cool. they're right. >> coming up -- >> he is a law enforcement officer. he knows his role.

>> the stealthy cat. the 70-pound dumbbell. >> and bobadilla's shank keeps everyone on their toes. >> i'm going to flush it.

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a few have been unofficially adopted and stay in the warehouse. only one is considered king. he is a 20-pound maine coon named leo. he reigned here the past five years. >> he snows his role. he checks us out. the other cats wander around doing their own thing. i think each cat has his own territory. i will see him here most of the time. when we do our rounds and start taking stuff to booking and other areas, i will see leo in that area. he's not just confined to this area. leo is all over the place. he wants to make sure we are doing our work correctly. i think he's been trained by the officers. >> it's super secret cat-based intel. very successful.

invaluable us to. >> leo's stealthy ways aren't necessary when it comes to 0 bobadilla. he calls plenty of attention to himself. >> he has been confined to a total separation since trying to smuggle an electric razor on to the bus from the main jail downtown. he's proven to be a man of his word. >> i'm raising hell. >> this is a write-up for being disobedient. yesterday my cell got raided. they gave me another couple of write-ups. too many write-ups to keep track of. for being an idiot. acting up. just being an idiot. for being disobedient. >> serving one year for possession of a controlled substance, he caught the attention of other inmates in the unit. >> what about bobadilla?

how is he doing in there? he just wants to come out of the closet. >> john gomez and justin richmond are housed one floor below. >> i'm sorry, sweetie. >> both men say they are gay and suspect bobadilla is, as well. >> we're in a situation where we meet people in here. we are depressed, stressed, our family members are getting hurt or whatever. we're locked up. this is how we pass our time we just start talking [ bleep ] to each other. we are having a bad day. someone says one wrong thing. >> i don't know why [ bleep ] think i'm gay, but i'm not. it's reverse psychology. that's all it is, manipulation.

they want you to think you're gay, but you know you're not. later on, you'll buy into it. next thing you know, you're growing your hair taking hormones. that's how they turn you out. i'm not stupid, bro. >> stop talking, polka dot. >> he is a real disaster waiting to happen. >> he wants to kill me. he wants to stab me, he said. he does. ain't nothing he can do in here as far as that goes. >> you are going to kill us? >> he showed me was a toothbrush, white one. it was sharpened at the end. he did show me. >> it's a toothbrush. as a matter of fact, i'm going to flush it so i don't get in trouble.

that's what i did last night before i went to bed. he's not accepted his whole life. he's hurt, he's broken inside. i have a heart. i understand. i put it like this. we weren't created for this. this building was created for us because we're criminals. so, we have to roll with it, you know what i mean? if we can't do the time, don't do the crime. >> coming up. >> failing them twice would be committing a type of suicide in my life. huh-uh, we don't even have a samoan word for suicide. we don't [ bleep ] believe in that. >> patricia mulitauaopele and ernest salmons face the uncertainty of the long rhoda head. >> it does put suicidal thoughts in your head. you want anyway for it to be over. you want it over.

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the rio cosumnes correctional center near sacramento, robert overer ton serving one year for possession of a firearm by felony works hard to stay fit. he does push ups with his own jail house crafted blocks. >> just for to get depth in push ups. i don't think any of these are the bible. that would be -- what's the word, blasphemous. got to keep the chuck ladell look, you know what i mean? >> overton spends most of the days in the welding shop which he hopes will provide him the skills to stay out of the jail for good. >> it's like a sanctuary. i don't have to put up with the b.s. if i'm over here doing stuff, nobody bugs me. >> during breaks it's another quick workout. a previous inmate welder forged his own creation, a 70-pound

dumbbell. >> this is my gym while i'm over here. it's not so obvious. when i'm done i move this back over here and i go back to doing work and nobody is the wiser. i'm 52. i figure i got another 50 in me, i hope. i try to take care of myself. if i do, i'm trying to make this next 50 better than the last, changing everything up a little bit, being there for my kids, my grandchildren, just be a grandpa. >> with six children, 40 year old patricia mulitauaopele might become a grandparent herself some day, but her addiction to meth and the prison in jail stays that have resulted from it have kept mulitauaopele away from both her children and her siblings. >> i need my family. i pushed them away. as much as they wanted to be a part of my life, changed all my phone numbers, changed the address. i pushed them away. now i don't want to. failing them twice would be committing a type of suicide in

my life. uh-huh, we don't even have a samoan word for suicide. we don't believe in that [ bleep ]. it's not our life to take. but that would be how intense it would be for me to disappoint my siblings. >> mulitauaopele has been in the jail for the past five months for failing to report to a drug rehabilitation program. but now her judge has given her a second chance. she will soon be released on probation on the condition she reports to the program. >> no more drugs, no more [ bleep ]. no more running in the street. this monster will be put in a cage forever. i'm done. i don't even know why i went this far. >> ernest salmons has been asking how things went this far as well. he was nearing the end of a one-year sentence for auto theft when he was charged with murder of his cell mate. >> last week my year was up, but also starting into this case

itself, you know. we're not even into the trial days of it, but i would have been released last week and going home. and i'm still, you know, praying and hoping that something in that autopsy comes out, something to save me, dude. i can only hope and wish, you know. i really don't -- i didn't -- i didn't murder that guy. waiting for court is the hardest part of it all really. not seeing the end to it, not seeing the daylight at the end of the tunnel, as they say, it does put some suicidal thoughts in your head. if goes for saying because you know you want anyway for it to be over. you want it over. i do. i can't stand it. i sit there and make all the jokes i can make throughout the day. just hides it a little bit deeper for another day.

i miss my kids every day i wake up, i think about my kids. i can't look at pictures of what i had out there. the last i received anything was a picture from my youngest daughter. she drew me a flower with a happy face on it. that meant more to me than anything else that i've got in here. >> salmons is allowed out of his cell 30 minutes a day, but is a total separation inmate, he is always alone. he spends some of his time in an enclosed wrek yard. >> get in the place, play basketball with myself. i wasn't allowed to play with anyone else. i have no human contact. it messes with your confidence, messes with your self-esteem. i don't know if i'm acting right. i don't know if i'm what these people are saying i am and i'm human. like you, it makes you feel a less person.

makes you feel less everything, you know? i feel like a caged animal. >> isn't it crazy freedom is something you look forward to? looking at the train sitting there makes me think of going home, going back to ohio. i want to go back home. that's where i was supposed to be when i came in here, you know?

/s >> a recent law brings a wave of felons to the county jail, creating challenges and threats. >> we're seeing greater propensity for smuggling, greater propensity for assault on officers and staff which we didn't see before. >> a family man gets a decade in jail for manufacturing weapons. >> they're called home grown guns, you can legally make for yourself. you just can't sell them. and that's where i went wrong.