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 acures in the jail. >> if i asked me a year ago, i would have said we have a pretty good track record. >> 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. >> my first thought was he's trying to get away. now he vows to cause more problems. >> i'm just going to be a havoc to these [ bleep ]. they want to play games, i can play games. >> 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 the extent they provide grant funding and such 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 jones oversees the two large facilities that comprise the sacramento county

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. >> besides her height, there's one other 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 you share. growing up, we made enough to share with everybody. 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. >> she's 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 as soon as i take it out of my 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 i was 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 chifrn -- children ranging 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 close-knit. 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 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. and dad? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico!

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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. i was out here running wild. i was in california, dude. living the dream. mychal cal dream started 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'd walk up in people's yards. 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. that was two years ago. 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. cussing peopleut to trying to smoke cigarettes in here. >> salmons got into the kind of trouble that goes beyond cussing and smoking. he admits to getting upset with his 54-year-old cell mate and striking him. hours later, the cell mate laid dead in the cell. and salmons was charged with murder. he has 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 heart 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 offenses involving minors. the kind of charges that often make incompetent mates targets for violence. >> i didn't know that. until i got my discovery. that's why they thought maybe that's why i did 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'm going to beat the [ bleep ] out of 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 nothing 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 get off my bed. i smacked him, got him pretty good with the palm of my hand. 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 sitting here talking and everything was 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 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 lie 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 or killed. 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 mean that we depart from that drive that 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. holding me for a murder charge.

>> coming up -- >> call that a hiatus for the last years. >> an older inmate hopes to forge a new life. >> then i realized, daye it under the bus. but he heard the -- >> 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 among 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 latest 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. one extra thing to help me on the outside. 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 fire pit. the income helps pay for the program and the special training that 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 ja. large group of inmates transferring. >> typically move about 35 inmates a day. the classifications vary. within the bus we have tanks. they're at least a two-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.

>> the most daunting struggle, 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 here tank. we drive to the nearest secure location, which is either one of our jails. that could potentially be a 30-minute fight. >> at the center of attention today is a man serving one year for possession of a controlled substance. he is in protective custody because he dropped out of his gang. >> protective custody incompetent mates, they are lower than low is their philosophy. 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 out his latest infraction. he was caught trying to smuggle an electric shaver on 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'm like i'm liable to get searched. 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 let's get through this. >> as bobadilla was about to board the bus, he darted underneath it. >> he's trying to do something he shouldn't be doing. this is a very bad situation. i run off the bus. i come around the corner and i see 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. >> 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 -- >> 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 hell. i'm going to kick my door. flood my cell. i'm going to be a havoc to these [ bleep ]. they want to play games, i can play games. coming up -- >> this is a write-up for disobedience. 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 all his problem is. >> and -- >> hard having to read this again. it ain't so easy either. >> salmons makes front page news. the second killing rocks the jail. the future isn't silver suits and houses on mars,

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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. >> everybody looks forward to coming out, use the phones, talk to their loved ones and stuff shower time. getting your coffee. >> salmons started out as an average inmate celled with another inmate. no underlying reasons to be separated. now he's 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. >> 23rd is the prelim. that's where it's set. we got to start picking our jurors and stuff 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 how i'm doing again. >> salmons spends most of his free time talking to his many siblings in ohio. >> tell daddy love him. 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 homicide, there had only been three foirds at the main jail in its 26-year history. the last was five years earlier. >> homicides in our jail are extremely unusual. you think you've got a bunch of criminals in there, that would happen. it really doesn't. if you asked me a year ago, i would said we have a good track record. if you do consider the 700 people are eligible for bail and of those, the 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 ithe past wld have gone to prison and dramatic increase in mentally ill population.

>> we need to improve upon lowering the level of potential violence, perhaps we didn't ask for this problem, perhaps we didn't contribute to it, perhaps it's simply because of the different inmate population and mentality health issues, but it is our issue. it's not only incumbent but our obligation to try to figure out 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 i wanted to be put in the 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 had a lot of issues, you know? it's just a strae 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 rewarding to see her excited. and i know that they're re 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 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 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. walked right out. 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

rehabilitation facility on her latest conviction of methamphetamine possession. >> describe what you're like when you use meth. >> 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 family is 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 -- >> leo stands for law enforcement officer. he knows his role. >> the stealthy cat. the 70-pound dumbbell. >> keep the look, you know what i mean. >> and bobadilla's shank keeps everyone on their toes. >> i'm going to flush it. so 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.

and an airplane hangar serves as the supply warehouse. it's staffed by inmates working under the watchful eyes of more than just deputies. >> my first interaction was weird to see 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. >> leo stands for law enforcement officer. he knows his role. he checks us out. the other cats wander around doing their own thing. i think each cat has his own territory. leo is the one in control. i will see him here most of the ti. 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. it's been 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. [ bleep ] [ inaudible ] >> 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. >> if i go back to t-cell, bro, i'm raising hell. >> this is a write-up for being disobedient. pounding on the door. yesterday my cell got raided. they gave me another couple of write-ups. looks like he's got too many write-ups to keep track of.

>> write-ups left and right, bro. >> for what? >> for being an idiot. acting up. just being an idiot. for being disobedient. not giving a [ bleep ]. that's all it is. >> serving one year for possession of a controlled substance, obadilla has caught the attention of other inmates. >> what about obadilla? how is he doing in there? >> his name is polka dot. >> he wants to come out of the closet, that's all his problem is. >> john gomez and justin richmond are housed one floor below obadilla. >> i'm sorry, sweetie. >> 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.

boom, somebody says one wrong thing. >> i don't know why everybody [ bleep ] i'm gay, i'm not. you know why? it's reverse psychology, that's all it is, a 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 tang 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. [ inaudible ] >> 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 sharpened 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. there's a fine line. he's got like 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.

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♪ the rio cosumnes correctional center near sacramento, robert overton, 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'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 wanting to run 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. i would go as far as saying because you want any way 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 ti in an enclosed wreck 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. i'm just like you, it makes you feel less of a 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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