due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> locked in a cell. one comes out. don't look very good. >> just weeks away from completing his sentence, an inmate is accused of murdering his cell mate. >> front page news, i am. holy cow. looks like i'm a real topic. >> one month later, an unrelated

killing occurs in the jail. >> if i asked me a year ago, i would have said we have a pretty good track record. >> 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. my first thought he was trying to get away trying to do something he sunt be doing. >> now he vows to cause more problems. >> i'm just going to be a havoc to these [ bleep ]. >> i think he wants to make sure we're doing our work correctly. i think he's been trained by the officers. >> super secret cat-based intel. it's been very successful. been very invaluable us to. >> you want to sit here and

[ bleep ] this. will you get trouble? you want to wake up to this? come on. the birth place of the california gold rush. sacramento is best known today as the capital of the nation's most populous state. though it was once regarded as a very different sort of capital. >> about ten years ago we were called frequently the meth capital of the country. it's an undesirable distinction, to be sure. it caused us and the federal government to attack that issue. it's not been the crisis it has been. in the last year or two, meth is making a resurgence in sacramento like it is in many neighborhood. >> sheriff scott jon oversees the two large facilities that comprise the sacramento coty

jail system. at the main jail downtown, most of the inmates are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial and the resolution of their cases. many like patricia have struggled with methamphetamine addictions. >> i'm here for failure to enroll in a drug program. they put a warrant out for my arrest. i may be considered the only 6'3" small girl in sacramento, i think. it's harder to hide. so i really don't. >> there is one thing that makes her stand out from the crowd. >> she also does a funny trick with her eyes. >> you want to wake up to this? come on. thank you.

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. make sure we share. . 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.

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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. and being wrote up for cussing people out, 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. and striking him. hours later, the cell mate laid dead in the cell. salmons was charged with murder. 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. i just got my discovery. they thought 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 said i'm going to beat him 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 bed. he's leaking out of his pants. i didn't really lose my temper. i told him to get off my bed. 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. so he had to change his clothes and because he messed himself 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

my way to the bathroom. 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.

they're holding me for a murder charge. >> coming up -- >> hiatus for the last two years. >> ara older inmate learns to weld and hopes to forgery a new life. >> then i realized i might well get searched when i >> i heard a thud it. asked him what that was. >> trouble on the transfer bus.

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. 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 vans 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. each of them at least 2-man tank. 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 al 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 secure 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. >> protective custody inmates, the inmates philosophy is >> 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. while staff sort outer his latest infraction. 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 took it out of the toilet paper roll. 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. my first thault, >> he's trying to do something he shouldn't be doing. this is a bad situation. 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. we'll see, but >> i have to protect my officers. okay? >> that's okay if you get me a bunky, okay. >> hang tight. >> i got kids, man. i do not want be living with weird os. >> i don't want you to lose your mind. if i go back to t set, bro, i'm ratesing hell flood my cell. i'm going to be a havoc to these [ bleep ]. i can play games. >> this is a write-up for disobedience. and pounding on the door. 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 -- >> hard having to read this again. >> salmons makes front page news. the second killing rocks the jail.

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viewer discretion is advised. officials in texas are mondays main branch of the skroom jail to me earnest is housed in the t accept unit but he hasn't lost his sense of humor. >> how is my hair. >> total separation is what what exactly what tis you move by yourself. you are by yourself, transported by yourself. you have no contact with any other inmate except for maybe talking through a door. >> sal mans and other inmates are only allowed out 30 minutes a day. >> everyone looks forward to coming out shower time getting coffee. >> sal mohns started out as average inmate celled with another inmate, no underlying reasons to be separated. now he is accuse of killing his cell mate which he will be a

total separation inmate he cannot have another. >> sal month says he struck his 54-year-old inmate after his with open palm. but he says no idea how the man died a short time later. at the time sal mohns was nearing the end of a one-year sentence for vehicle theft >> the 23rd is the prelim. that's where it's set where we got to start picking our jurors and stuff out. >> salmons must remain in jail awaiting trial for jury. if found guilty he could get life without parole. >> and then i had knows pigeons to come back to my window. and every time i seen them it makes me think you know it's robynn -- there's robynn and mark coming to see how i'm doing again. >> salmons spends most of his froh time talking to his many siblings in ohio. >> tell dad i love him when you see him give him a kiss for me. keep an eye on the court dates

you'll see it on the computer. love you guys. you too be praying for you all right. bye. >> one month after his cell mate di another inmate was also arged with murder of his cell mate. toprior t two suspected homicides there had only, three murders at the main jail in the 26 year history. >> homicides in our jail are unusual. intuitively you think you got a bunch of criminal that is happens. well it doesn't. if you'd ask me a year ago i would say we had have a good track record. if you do consider only 70 oh people in the 2200 people facilities are only eligible for bail and of those the average bail is $460,000 we have serious criminals in the jail. >> jail officials say violence increased over the past few years due in part to two factors process. a recent law requiring county jails to mouse thousands of convicted felons who in the past would have gone to prison, and a dramatic increase in the

mentally ill population. >> when you we need to improve upon exploring the level of violence and potential violence in the main jail. perhaps we didn't ask for it or do anything to contribute it. perhaps it's simply because of the ditching inmate population and mental health issues and circumstances beyond our control. but it is our issue. it's not only incouple botany upon us it's our obligation to try and figure out how best to address it, how to minimize it and how best to try and reverse what was hopefully not a trend. >> front page news, i am. holy cow. looks like i'm a real topic, huh? >> now a local newspaper runs a front page article on the deaths. salmon has agreed to an interview and is the focus of the article. >> that sucks. that's pretty painful. that's not the way i wanted to be put in no paper even though i look good. it's now how i wanted to be in the paper.

the story is i killed a kwie and they're trying to say i'm a murderer for it. and i'm not. it's hard living it once, man having to go back and read this again it ain't easy either. the a guy has a lot of issues you know. it's just a strange way how things happen. i mean, i'm the one that's going to have to suffer for it, the consequences whatever they may be. i mean i'm not sitting here saying that i murdered him either. i ain't gone a sit there and say that. i can't because i mean like i know i put my hands on him and i didn't put my hands on him enough to kill anybody. i thought being honest with the people, honesty the best policy. but i guess you just got to know when to be honest. i knew there was going to be a lot of questions.

but i didn't think i was going getting charged with murder. >> let's see what we got here. g 5 a. g 55. sfl in another part of the jail the mood is considerably lighter thanks to recreation supervisor andrew fields. >> n 31. n 31. >> our goal is to keep these guys active, keep them focused on things that are positive. >> 073. >> wait what -- o 73. thank you. o 73 thank you. >> we're kind of like in between the deputies and the inmates. we're here to relief the stress and the anxieties that these guys go through and hopefully it saves a lot of paperwork. and what i mean by paperwork, i mean a lot of fights. >> o 65. omt 65. >> he es 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. >> i 18. >> bingo. >> whoa, wait a minute hold on let's see. >> i'd like to thank the sacramento county jail. >> andrew has never seen me put my eyes out he's been trying to avoid it. >> that was a good one. >> he won't never look at me the same way again. he is like you need to throw the board way. >> just for that you didn't win. >> i was pretty shocked. i 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 rewarding to see her -- to be excited. and i know that they're in 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 addiction to meth and the subsequent crimes that brought her to jail and prison. >> i have at absolutely no relationship with any of my children. i would be surprised if any of them remember me. >> five of her children live with siblings and one with an uncle. the birth of mere youngest son still haunts her sfl. >> 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 me 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 you were -- he was born with traces of meth. as soon as i came to i noticed i wasn't pregnant anymore.

first person i called my connect. i need you to come to martinez county hospital and pick me the [ bleep ] up. >> well where is the baby. >> i don't know i didn't know can ask you to ask about the baby come pick me up. at the hospital didn't let them know i was leaving. didn't even zarj. walked right out. a year later my sister has the pictures of him posted on facebook and doesn't call me to tell me you stupid, how dare you. calls me to to tell me look how pretty it is. he looks just like you, tita. and he does. >> patricia recently missed an opportunity to avoid more jail time when she failed to appear a court ordered rehabilitation

facility on the latest conviction of methamphetamine possession. >> describe what you're like when you use meth. >> a monsters. that's my nickname on the street. meth monster. it's terrible. my focus is meth, meth, meth. and if you got it, i want it. if i ain't got the money for it, i'm taking it. . for no other reason tan just to get high and stay high. my family is a strong, strong family. and it's obvious because they're still altogether. i'm the one that left it. i'm the one that still thinks it's okay to hide behind drugs. this jail to me is safe. my family tells me it was so glad to see your name came up in jail. because we know you're cool.

and they're right. >> coming up. >> leo stands for law enforcement officer. he knows his role. he is the one standing by and checks us out. >> the stealthy cat a 70-pound dumb bell and his shank keeps everyone on the jail. >> i'm going to flush it so i don't want i don't get in

trouble. located in the heart of one of the nation's richest agriculture areas, sacramento county's branch jail was once a world war ii army base. old barracks house inmates. a hangar serves as the supply house.

it's staffed by inmates working under the watchful eyes of more than just deputies. >> my first interaction was weird to sea a cat here in the compound. >> staff say about 20 cats live on the jail grounds. 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 eachthink at 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.

either that or he's been paying attention. >> 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. and pounding on the door. yesterday my cell got raided. they gave me another couple of write-ups. too many write-ups to keep track of.

i'm getting write ups left and right. for being an idiot. acting up. just being an idiot. for being disobedient. >> serving one year for possession of a controlled substance, obadilla has caught the attention of other inmates. >> what about obadilla? >> his name is polka dot. >> he wants to come out of the closet, that's all his problem is. gone gomez and justin richmond are housed one floor below >> they are housed one floor below obadilla. >> i'm sorry. >> both men say they are gay and suspect he is as well. >> [ bleep ]. >> we're in a situation where we meet people in here and we're depressed, we're stressed, our family members are getting hurt or whatever. we're locked up. so, this is how we pass our time. we [ bleep ] we're filming [ bleep ] we're having a bad day. somebody says one thing.

>> i don't know why everybod bleep ] i'm gay, i'm not. you know why? it's reverse psychology, manipulation. they want you to think you're gay but you know you're not. but, you know, later on you'll bite into it and then the next thing you know you're growing your hair and taking hormones. and that's how they turn you out. i'm telling you, i'm not stupid, bro. >> stop talking, [ bleep ]. >> cell 9 is a disaster waiting to happen. he's waiting to explode. >> you're polka dot now. >> he wants to kill me. he wants to stab me, he said, he does. ain't nothing they can do in here as far as that goes. >> you gonna kill us? >> when he showed me -- it was a toothbrush, a white one. it was sharp at the end. he did show me. >> man, i have a toothbrush. matter of fact, i'm going to

flush it so i don't get in trouble. that's what i did last time before i went to bed, made me a nice little shave. >> i'm not saying i'm better than him, i'm in here, too. he's got [ bleep ] ten write ups. it seems to me he's not been 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

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be the you who talks to your dermatologist about stelara®. the rio sum miss correctional centerr sacramento robert overton serving one year for possession of a fearm 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 get to be away from everybody. 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?

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