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that's their money over here. that's how they pay their debts. if they don't pay, this is what happens. a fight breaks out. >> we got a 1010 in progress. it's a fight. >> a fight breaks out over snacks, but officers want to know if there was something else behind it. >> you're considerably bigger than this individual, and he's
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coming into your room and saying, "give me your" -- >> that don't mean nothing when you're in jail, miss -- excuse me -- >> sergeant wilson. >> that don't mean anything when you're in jail. >> what is on your face and why? >> tooth paste. >> an open transgender inmate who escorts on the street chooses general population over protective custody. >> normally they're in the closet. >> you try and hurt me, i'll hurt you first. >> you bitch. >> oh, we going to hurt each other. that morning at breakfast, i noticed he wasn't at his table. i went to wake him up and heard the officer say, "he's dead, he's dead." >> an inmate is found dead in his bunk, and as his cell mate comes under scrutiny, rumors spread like wildfire. >> they said that he was stabbed. >> with his spoon in the heart.
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♪ >> that's just like unidentifiable. like really? >> it's been said that if nothing else, jail provides three hots and a cot. the sheriff al cannon detention center in charleston, south carolina, is no exception. there are about 1,300 men and women incarcerated here. most are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. keeping them all fed requires an inmate kitchen staff to work nearly around the clock preparing 3,900 meals per day. mohammed abdullah is a cook on the afternoon shift. >> work seven days a week. we work eight hours a day. we go in at 1:00. we're usually back between 8:30 and 9:00. 8:30, 9:00. the benefits of that are you don't have to lay around all day. your bones aren't getting achy.
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you're constantly working. working in the kitchen keeps you alert and aware of things going on around you. you get to eat good, you know. make sure the food is hot and warm. that's the rice right there. gourmet. professional, i cooked it. that the patties there. i cooked those, too. they're going to want seconds of those, i guarantee you that. >> although abdallah takes pride in his work, he may be overestimating its appeal. >> the food here sucks. >> man, i can't wait to get some pizza when i get out of here. >> it's all disgusting county food. >> but there is an alternative to the complimentary meals served in the kitchen. >> canteen! >> every thursday is canteen day. >> it's like christmas to them. honey buns, chips. i guess they don't get none of that stuff on their lunch trays or what not. for them to get that, they're happy. everybody excited when it comes in. >> in addition to snacks, inmates can purchase canteen items such as toiletries, clothing, radios, and writing
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supplies through debit accounts funded by friends or family on the outside. >> it's really exciting to me because i've never been to jail. i've never been in any trouble. so me coming inside the jail, this is my first time basically seeing the inside of a jail. >> michael wilkerson has been driving to jail every thursday for the past six months. >> can i see your band? >> yes. >> he works for an outside vendor that runs the canteen service. >> this is a three hour and 30-minute ride every thursday. i like talking to them, seeing what they're going through, asking what they're here for. sometimes you're scared of the charge they have. other than that, i love this job. i love it. >> there's also a dark side to canteen day. >> canteen is usually the worst day in the unit. that's when the most fights will happen. >> canteen is money here. when you need something, you trade it with canteen. >> they don't have access to paper money. that's their money here. that's how they pay their debts. that's how they collect debts. if they don't pay, this is what happens. a fight breaks out.
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>> they start fighting like right in front of us. it's shocking to see them fight over honey buns and stuff like that. >> we'll follow. >> 1010 in progress. it's a fight >> tactical officers from the jail's special operations group have been called to a fight shortly after canteen distribution in a maximum security housing unit. >> there's two of them fighting. i got them separated. this one and the one on the corner. >> officers assigned to the unit manage to separate the combatants seconds before the team arrives. >> turn around. >> one individual inmate received a canteen. another individual came out of the room to try to steal it from him. that's when the fight broke out. >> the fight was between sheldon kelley and another man who declined to be on camera. >> that's what started everything. about $50. the stuff is overrated. it's overpriced. a bag of chips, those kind of chips on the street would probably be 50 cents a bag, two for a dollar.
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here it's one dollar a bag. >> make sure you get the canteen. >> mr. kelley had just gotten his canteen and was going to his room when another inmate come out of his room and went over to mr. kelley's room and he proceeded to try to take mr. kelley's canteen. kelly bogged on him, the man threw a punch at kelly, kelly responded with a couple of punches himself. >> this happens every thursday. somebody's going to get their canteen happen. it's just a fact. it happens in jail. either you're strong or you're weak. you show any signs of weakness, someone's going to take your stuff from you. you don't, you stand up, you're respected, it spreads through jail. you can't take his stuff, he's not going to go for that. >> kelly is in jail on charges of carjacking, kidnapping, and possession oa weapon ithe commission of a violent crime. he has pled not guilty. >> i'm not the type of person to go out and look for trouble.
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i mean, my mama always told me, if you look for trouble, you'll find it. >> but kelly has been both accused and convicted of violent acts in the past. at the time of his latest arrest, he was out on bond on charges of assaulting a police officer, unlawful possession of a firearm, and criminal domestic violence, to which he has also pled not guilty. more significantly, when kelly was 14 years old, he killed a man. >> 14 going on 15 years old. i ended up running the streets with my brothers, being young, wild, just growing up too fast for my time. i ended up catching a murder charge by assaulting someone with a baseball bat. he died. blunt force trauma to the head. he ended up dying. charged me with murder, waved me charged me with murder, waived me up as an adult. sentenced me at 16 to years in the south carolina department of correction. i stayed there until my 29th birthday. i pretty much growed up in jail. >> kelly's murder charge was reduced to manslaughter, but he
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still spent 15 years in prison. >> at one point in time, to be honest with you, i didn't care whether i lived or died because i was living that lifestyle and wanted to be out in the streets and doing what i wanted to do but having no sense of purpose. >> if found guilty of the litany of violent crime charges he currently faces, kelly could receive life in prison. for now, he will remain in a segregation cell pending a sciplinary hea on the canteen fight. kelly is confident he will be lation. and sent back to general >> he hit me first. but it wasn't an effective blow. i mean, i'm trained in martial arts. 18 years experience in martial arts. i pretty much know how to defend myself and know how to take a blow and know how to ward off a blow. >> i saw blood on him. >> well, he ran into a few elbows. >> coming up -- >> did you have a poker game that lasted for a couple of days? >> no. >> okay. were there several individuals that were supposed to pay out canteen?
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>> sheldon kelly faces the disciplinary committee. and -- >> protective custody. i can't go in there. >> until you cut the nails and take the hair off, you have to go to a1b. i can't send you to general population. >> jail officials try to find appropriate housing for a new inmate. noticed me in two years. i was in a coma. well, i still deserve appreciation. who was there for you when you had amnesia? you know i can't remember that. stop this madness. if it's appreciation you want you should both get snapshot from progressive. it rewards good drivers with big discounts on car insurance. it's a miracle. i can walk again. go back to your room, susan lucci. it's a miracle. i can walk again. ♪ pressure...
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go irish! see that? yes! i'm gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. >> the scaly denizens of the small pond outside the sheriff al cannon detention center might be intimidating. but they do little to stem the flow and men and women entering the facility. while the inmate population stands at about 1,300, many more are booked into the jail that are soon released. the jail's intake department processes about 30,000 arrestees per year. >> inmates come straight off the street whether they're drunk, high, whatever the case may be. we have first contact with them.
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>> ma'am, i'm a nurse. >> we do the paperwork. we do initial pat downs. any type of contraband that may enter the facility, we should be the first to catch it so it could not be brought into the facility. >> this is what we found when we were doing a strip search. it's a leafy substance. it was inside of her underwear. >> depending on their charges and whether they can make bond, most will be out within 24 hours. today antoine rivers will be assigned to a housing unit and stay until his case is resolved. >> left hand. >> but i'm not a criminal. >> the booking procedure is famili to rivers. he has had multiple stays at the jail. >> ten-plus. maybe once, twice a year. >> i wouldn't say he's a regular, but he's been here enough that i know who he is. >> nothing too major, like a major crime or robbery or something, no. that wouldn't be me.
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>> how do you identify yourself, as gay, transgender, what? >> no. i identify as a gay male. uh-huh. nothing else. a queen in our gay world. >> rivers was brought in on a warrant for a possession of marijuana charge. a short time after he arrived, he was also charged with providing false information to police. >> i gave them a wrong last name. that was it. go ahead and lock me up. you all ain't got the information. >> rivers says he will likely plead guilty and hope for the best. >> any history of epilepsy or diabetes -- >> no. >> ever been in a mental institution? >> no. >> ever contemplated suicide? >> no. >> you have people who come in with various personalities, you
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know. they dress according to how they feel. i mean, you just do your job. it catches you off guard. but i mean a the end of the day, we still treat them as human beings. we never, you know, discriminate. >> rivers has several prior convictions including driving with a suspended license, receiving stolen goods, trespassing, reckless driving, and shoplifting. he says he has served sentences ranging from a few days to a few months in six different jails. >> i know you've been through all this before. we always got to go through everything. do you have any gang affiliation? >> no. >> do you have any enemies that you know of? >> no. >> any co-defendants? >> uh-uh. >> do you need protective custody for any reason? >> i don't at all. i don't want it at all. >> with your nails and hair, you do, unless you're willing to take them off. >> protective custody. i can't go there. >> well, until you cut the nails and take the hair off, you have to go to a 1 b. i can't send you to general population with the nails and the hair on. >> long nails and hair
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extensions are both considered potential weapons and can also lead to unwanted attention. but protective custody means being isolated in a single-person cell 23 hours a day. >> i hate being isolated. i need -- sometimes it's good to be isolated by yourself. but for days and days and days and days, and days, that ain't going to work. good, bad, the situation in protective custody is nowhere to be. >> do you have any other questions or concerns i can help you with? >> no, that's it. >> rivers is not alone in his aversion to protective custody. his cousin, kaylin jenkins, who identifies as transgender, also selected general population over pc. >> i did want to go to protective custody. i stayed there for like five days, and then i requested to move to general population because i just felt the need to be around other people. >> though jenkins realizes some inmates have problems with gay or transgender people. >> so be it. i don't care. that's -- they have to deal with it, not me.
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when i was a boy, they was always giving me compliments. it was like you're pretty, and you'll be a pretty girl and stuff like that. but i was just feminine. and feminine enough to carry a purse. >> jenkins is serving 20 days for possession of marijuana and has had several prior stays in the jail for convictions that include shoplifting, trespassing, robbery, and assault and battery. >> what is on your face and why? >> toothpaste. i shaved like yesterday or whatever and got some bumps on my face. the toothpaste is going to help dry it out. >> where did you learn that trick? >> just from coming here. i do have four sisters. i do have four sisters, so i already knew all about what it takes to be a girl. i think they made me want to be a girl so bad just being around them, and they were so pretty, and they always talked about
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girly things. >> jenkins hopes to have female hormone therapy and possibly gender reassignment surgery in the fear future. >> the hormones, i want to take it for my voice. i want to take it for my skin, grow like [ bleep ]. not like a "b,". a b cup. nothing big and heavy. or a "c." >> out on the streets, jenkins already has a different look and name. >> coco. everybody know me as coco. coco escorts. yep, there you go. she escorts. she has, like, several guys as regulars who she knows. sometimes she don't even have to do nothing with them. she can just call them up for money and they'll give it to her.
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because they love coco. they love everything about her. i like the gangster guys, like the ones in the hood and the manly ones. turns me on. >> as long as you don't step over boundaries, fine with me. to each his own. a lot of them never seen anything like that before, so they don't know how to handle it. they're scared. >> a lot of them are like that. >> yeah, they're hiding it. >> that's the truth. they try to hide it by pushing the poke away -- excuse me, homosexual. at the same time, they're admiring them, you know. >> when i'm not looking, when i look, i can see them looking, turning their head. i know they're looking at me. >> they're out like that, normally, you know. normally they're in the closet. you don't find them, you know, out there like that. >> he's a horse of another color. >> when they try and make jokes at me, i crack right back like it's not -- y'all don't have to play with me all the time. yeah, you bet. you better get that bitch. [ bleep ].
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>> jenkins says kidding is fine, but is prepared to deal with anything else. >> if you try to hurt me, i'll hurt you first, or we're going to hurt each other. you're not just going to hurt me and get away with it, though. coming up, new developments for both kalin jenkins and antwan rivers. and later >> at first i thouidght su and then his roommate at the time told us that there was something around his neck. >> an inmate is found dead in his bunk, and officials must find out why. suppositories for relief in minutes. and dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax. designed for dependable relief. so we know how to cover almost almoanything.hing even a swing set standoff.
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inside the sheriff al cannon detention center, inmate workers like mohammad abdullah live in their own housing unit with at least one perq other units don't enjoy. >> when we work in the cafeteria, it's more of a privilege that we have the microwave. we get the coffee and the popcorn. but at any given moment, they will snatch it away if we mess that privilege up. >> abdullah is charged with a property crime to which he has pled not guilty. >> i've been here going on three
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months. i've been in and out of the facility -- i'm not proud to say this -- for a few years now. i did 14 years in the state penitentiary for armed robbery. i got out. there were no jobs no anything. it's just like they just kicked me out. here, you're finished. go. >> abdallah said crack-cocaine has led to many of his problems and hopes to get in the jail's drug rehab program. in the meantime, working in the kitchen has given him a sense of purpose. >> we make a dollar a day. some people might say a dollar a day, but i mean it's better than nothing. and the people that don't have anything are able to buy their hygiene and cosmetic items that they need. >> while he takes pride in his cooking, his passions writing and performing politically charged spoken word pieces. >> the founding fathers speak of american dream, but everything in america ain't always what it seems.
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possessed by greed and inordinate need to have the whole world bow down at their feet. political assassination, infiltration organizations, never apologizing for slavery or paying reparations. some of the things she accuses other nations of, she herself has proven not to be above. she brings guns and drugs and portrays us as thugs. this nation i live in has more people in prison due to the legacy of injustice and racism. i turn to my tv and laugh when i see them. talking about being a bastion of freedom and beacon of light. and how the whole world is jealous. are we so naive that we'll believe anything that he tell us? i'm sorry for sounding so unpatriotic, but the snake had its hands in things being unpatriotic. the scriptures teach you to reap what you sow but it hurts though. if she doesn't change her ways, this greet and mighty nation will fall like the beast written in revelations.
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>> while abdullah contemplates the moral choices of a nation, antwan rivers recently had to choose between keeping his hair extensions and long nails and being confined to the protective custody unit. >> protective custody, i can't go there. >> well, until you cut the nails and take the hair off, you have to go to a 1 b. i can't send you to general population with ils thnad hair on. >> riverhas madeis choice and is now in one of the far less restrictive general population units. >> i mean, i feel plain. i don't feel like me. i feel like me because this is how i am born, but like i don't feel as pretty as if i was -- as i was when i came in or when i was out on the street. >> turn around, face me. open your mouth, lift your tongue up. >> rivers has had numerous stays at the jail and says being openly gay has never caused him a problem. >> as long as i can hold my own weight, i'm good. people, you know, come and talk to you such and such, your roommates, they share words with you. but other than that, it was all
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right. i mean i stay to myself. i don't cause no problem. i mean that's about it. >> rivers' cousin, kalin jenkins, is also housed in a male general population unit. jenkins who is transgender and self-identifies as female says she can hold her own as well. but is always glad to make new friends. >> throwing slippers out the window. i'm about to do it again just so i can get his attention. >> doorbells? >> it's a doorbell. >> why are you trying to get someone's attention? >> is that a crime? i just want to talk to him. >> jenkins, who works on the outside as an escort named coco, is nearing the end of a 20-day sentence for possession of marijuana. >> that's all. >> doorbells? >> yeah, because we don't have them. >> sometimes -- some cos won't t you go up on the top floor to knock on other people's doors. so we me out here and associating.
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>> associating. >> try to talk to them but it's hard to hear through them windows, especially when it's noisy out here. >> jenkins has also made friends with matthew glidden. glidden is charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor to which he has pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. like jenkins, he, too, has chosen general population over protective custody. but as an accused sex offender, glidden could be in greater danger due to a code among inmates that says people with charges like his should be targeted for violence. and ten days later, jail officials would need to determine whether that code played a role in the death of matthew glidden. coming up -- >> we had a possible suicide. it's being investigated by the state law enforcement division and the local coroner. >> officials look into the death of matthew glidden. and -- >> if you have canteen that's not going to fit in your box, you lose it.
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you lose it. >> the jail cracks down on its canteen policy, and the inmates are not happy about it. >> they're not always going to comply. i mean this is jail, you know. the majority of people are in here because they didn't comply. that's what got them in here. so you'll be ready for whatever tomorrow brings. because mom's love is unconditional. even at 6am. nature's bounty melatonin. we're all better off healthy. nature's bounty knows healthy cholesterol starts in your gut. so we made cardio-health, an innovative way to support healthy cholesterol, containing lrc, a probiotic strain that helps you metabolize dietary cholesterol. because we all want to be healy for what comes next. nature's bounty cardio-health.
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i'm dara brown. nine people are now dead after severe storms caused flash flooding in arizona. the floods hit a popular swimming area inside the ton tow national forest in the central part of the state. officials say one person is still missing. actor martin landau has died in los angeles at the age of 89. landau gained fame as a master of disguise in tv's mission impossible in the 1960s and capped off his career with an oscar win for playing an aging bella la gocy in 1994's ed wood. now back to lockup.
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inside the sheriff al cannon detention center, canteen is a big deal to inmates. but now officers are cracking down on a policy that they've let slide a bit. it has to do with the plastic box issued to each inmate in which they're to store canteen and other personal items. >> all your canteen has to fit in your box with your box closed, with your lid closed. this starts monday. so start this weekend working on that. >> i ordered about $30, $40 worth of stuff. if i order that much, i can pretty much get everything in there. >> many inmates max out the $100 weekly limit on canteen, so the excess usually winds up outside the box. >> excess canteen, we think that that's been contributing to a lot of the break-ins and robberies in the unit. guys getting their cansteteen se
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from and stuff like that. we feel that we can get everything off the floor into their proper boxes and stuff, cut back on insects, bugs, stuff like that. >> if you have canteen that's not going to fit in your box, you lose it. you lose it. listen. >> they got very relaxed as far as that policy, and it got out of hand. we are now putting it back into control, which is not sitting real well with some of the inmates. >> you can't shut the lid on the box all the way, whatever's out that box is getting thrown away. >> they're taking it. >> thrown away, in the trash. >> you can't shut the box like that right there. >> that's going to start a problem. >> yeah, it is going to start a problem. >> a huge problem. >> a lot of people going to be in 1a. a lot of people's going to be in lockup for fighting cos. >> like what are they going to do with it? like they're going to take our food and hold it? what are they going to do? >> they're not always going
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to comply. i mean, this is jail, you know. the majority of people are in here because they didn't comply. that's what got them in here. >> sheldon kelly was recently involved in a canteen-related fight. >> kelly used to be an inmate worker. he was always really respectful to us. he was a good worker for the most part. never really had many disciplinary infractions. >> i mean the guy tried jumping canteen. we came from passing out canteen, came into my cell. we ended up getting into a physical altercation. >> the inmate kelly fought, who requested not to be on camera, just gave his side of the story to the jail's disciplinary committee. >> you didn't owe him anything? >> no. >> you didn't take his canteen or nothing? >> no, i don't owe him nothing. >> mr. kelly? >> now it's kelly's turn to face the committee. he could receive up to 30 days in disciplinary segregation if they determine he instigated the fight. >> i feel like it's going to play out in my favor because i didn't do nothing wrong. i defended myself.
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i'm going to just let the narrative speak for itself. the officer report speaks for itself. >> who hit who first? >> he hit me first, and i responded. >> okay. you're considerably bigger than this individl, and he's coming into your roomnd saying "give me your canteen." >> that don't mean nothing when you're in jail, miss -- excuse me -- >> sergeant wilson. >> sergeant wilson, that don't mean anything when you're in jail. >> okay. i'm trying to understand -- it seems that there's something missing in the story. >> the committee has received word that the fight might have resulted from the other inmate attempting to collect a gambling debt from kelly. >> did you have a poker game that lasted for a couple of days? >> no. >> okay. were there several individuals that were supposed to pay out canteen? >> no. i play poker. >> okay. were you in charge of the poker game, and when the other individuals could not provide the canteen, then you were the one that was supposed to provide the canteen for everyone involved? >> no.
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listen, why would i provide someone else canteen that loses their canteen? that doesn't make sense. >> that's what we're trying to understand. that's why we're all in this room here right now. >> that doesn't make sense. why would i pay something somebody else loses? >> thank you. you can step out, and we'll let you know. >> i don't know nothing what they're speaking about, no gambling, none of that. i don't know anything about that. crazy to know someone would fabricate a story. most they can say is you're going to remain on lockup for 30 days, 20 days, 15 days, and go back to population. >> you lose a lot when you're in lockup. >> yeah, you do. but it comes with the time. it comes with doing time in jail. sometimes you got to roll with the punches. >> kelly waits outside while the committee deliberates. >> [ bleep ] said that they were playing a poker game for several days -- >> wanted canteen -- >> correct. >> [ bleep ] subject one, because he went to subject two, mr. kelly's room. these aren't in the right order. >> and there that's when the
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altercation transpired. [ bleep ] hit kelly first. therefore,eing the aggressor, kelly defended himself. both a going to beound guilty just because kelly did more than defend himself. he participated. >> a short time later, kelly is called back in to hear the committee's decision. >> okay, mr. kelly. the board finds you guilty of a25. we are giving you a 30-day sentence. we are awarding you 15 days. you were defending yourself. you were not the addressor. however, in the report, it does state that you did continue to fight. >> you threw several punches. >> five to six punches. >> if someone's in my cell, i have the right to protect myself. >> and we did, that's why we're not giving you 30 days. but if you continue fighting -- we understand the fact that you were defending yourself. but what you've got to understand too is it was still -- turned into a mutual
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fight after that. >> all right. i feel like it was the wrong decision, but i have the right to appeal their decision which i'm going to do. but i feared for my safety. i did everything i felt like i had to do to immobilize my attacker. he swung on me. what was i supposed to do? stand there and take the short end of the stick? no. >> we don't really fault him so much as defending himself and hitting back. but because he continued, and he punched him about five or six times as well. >> we follow south carolina law. and south carolina law states if you don't try to separate yourself, you're a participant. so he did try to participate himsel he was defending himself, but the fact that he did not try to separate himself from it, he is considered a participant. >> one punch wouldn't have done it? >> it don't work like that. if we're going to fight, we're going to fight. you come looking for it, you ask for it, you got what you asked for. >> kelly will now spend the next
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15 days locked in a single-man cell 23 hours per day and lose most of his privileges, including canteen. antwan rivers no longer needs to worry about canteen or fitting his snacks in a plastic box. he pled guilty to his charges of drug possession and providing false information, served 17 days, and was released from jail. his cousin, kalin jenkins, completed a 20-day sentence for drug possession and was also released. and then shockingly, four days later, one of the few friends jenkins made in the jail, 29-year-old matthew glidden, was found dead in his cell. >> we had a possible suicide. it's being investigated by the state law enforcement division and the local coroner. they have not given anything -- it's a current investigation, so i can't give any great details on what the investigation is coming to the conclusions on. i have no idea. >> thomas dempsey was one of glidden's other friends in his housing unit.
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>> that morning at breakfast, i noticed he wasn't at his table. i went to get up to wake him up. i heard the officer say, "he's dead. he's dead." my buddy then went to go wake him up. he said that when he shook him, he grabbed his leg to scare him awake. he said -- >> stiff as a board. >> yeah. he said it was like rolling a log over. he said he just rolled over. >> glidden had been awaiting iafor sexual misconduct with a minor. >> as far as the people that really dealt with him on a daily basis, he was kind of melancholy. everybody couldn't really believe it, you know. i mean it's kind of crazy. >> ryan johnson also knew glidden. >> someone that close -- you see that person that much, and then you just don't see them all of a sudden, and they're just gone. i mean that left, i think, a hole in a lot of people that at least spent some time with him. >> with me, i just couldn't -- i
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couldn't fathom why did he want to destroy himself, you know. i feel like the inmates felt that way, too. why -- why did this -- nobody seemed to know. they didn't see -- i didn't see anything. >> the jail's chaplain, eva smith, pays a visit to glidden's housing unit. >> you were here at that time? >> yes. >> okay. how did you feel? >> i didn't know him that well, but i don't think he killed himself, though. >> okay. see, that's another thought. >> it's definitely fishy. >> at first i thought suicide. at first i thought he ate a bunch of pills or something. and then his roommate at the time, he was still in the unit for a while. he moved out of the unit yesterday. he told us that there was something around his neck. coming up -- >> i knew he went to court, he didn't like the news he heard. they said he came back. he hung himself. >> as unsubstantiated rumors spread through the jail, matthew glidden's mother speaks out. >> i miss him. i miss him dearly.
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inside the sheriff al cannon detention center, cellmates april maine and colleen spears have quickly learned to coexist in their confined space. >> i mean it's cool being alone, but there's just so much i isolation you can take. so it's better to be with someone and, you know, so we just started yesterday because my other roommate left. so because i knew april and we're both, you know, spiritually strong people, i thought that i could work with her. >> i'm sleeping on the floor just because i don't like climbing up and down off the top bunk. it's just easier. >> you go to the toilet, you use it. you know, you got to use these courtesy flushes. you know, privacy is just a term -- >> you turn your head and give them respect.
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you know, give each other respect. >> unless you're like some of the girls that like to watch, you know. >> and i'm not one of those, so you have all the privacy you need. >> yeah. you know, if you're going and eliminating that way, then you get the stink out, and then -- >> we got powder. >> you take your powder puff, and that's your deodorizer. you can put a towel over you or something like that, you know, if you want, you know, to be private. you choose different shave days, you know, because i don't like sharing a sink. we didn't even discuss that yet. my day is sunday by the way. so, you know, you choose what side you get. i get the left side of the shelf and she's on the right side. so everything is separated there. you separate your storage space. i'm right side over here, you know. that way she can have her space over here on the left side.
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i mean we split. like i tell april, anything that's out, you can use it. anything in my box, don't touch. we try take care of one another. but that's not the same spirit, i found, you know, with most of the inmates. >> now the relationship between another pair of cellmates is under close scrutiny from jail officials. 24 hours earlier, matthew glidden was discovered dead in his bunk. his cellmate, michael bixby, is being questioned by authorities. >> inmate bixby is in lockdown. i will not allow him to be roomed with anybody else at this point in time to ensure the safety of all the inmates in the facility. >> thomas dempsey used to share a cell with glidden and he suspects foul play. >> another thing that made me a little skeptical is when he was in the room with me, he couldn't std the wool blankets. matthew didn't like the wool blankets at all. that morning, he was underneath a wool blanket. >> at the time of his death, glidden was awaiting trial on charges of sexual misconduct with a minor. accused sex offenders are often targets for violence. his cellmate, michael bixby, is also charged with sex offenses.
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he has pled not guilty and is awaiting trial for sexual exploitation of children. in addition, bixby served a prior prison sentence in indiana on convictions for sexual misconduct with a minor and child exploitation. >> i don't know how word got to the unit for it. i woke up at lunch, and everybody had known about it before the news got out or anything, so. >> as word of glidden's death spreads through the jail, the inmate rumor mill begins to crank up. >> i knew he went to court, he ain't like the news he heard. they said he came back, he hung himself. >> he hanged himself and his roommate just sit and let him hang himself. >> how did you hear that? >> a dude that say he been in the room with them. >> said the roommate let him do it. you think, damn, who was his roommate? you know what i'm saying? >> watch him hang himself. >> they said that he was stabbed with his spoon -- >> in the heart. >> i guess with enough pressure
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it can go in. i don't know. >> with a charge like that, i probably would have damn never killed myself too. that's not a good thing to go in for. >> nah. coming up -- >> i was fired because of -- i feel like political reasons. you know, i was ising ncerns about several issues in the kitchen. >>uhammad abdullah getsome bad news. and -- >> inmate bixby has been charged with assisted suicide, and the investigation is ongoing by the south carolina law enforcement division. when you switch to progressive. winds stirring. too treacherous for a selfie. [ camera shutter clicks ] sure, i've taken discounts to new heights with safe driver and paperless billing. but the prize at the top is worth every last breath. here we go. [ grunts ] got 'em. ahh. wait a minute. whole wheat waffles? [ crying ] why!
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>> inmate bixby has been charged with assisted suicide. the investigation is ongoing by the south carolina law enforcement division. as far as assisted suicide never happened before, so this is all new to us. >> according to court documents, bixby admitted strangling glidden but said he did so at glidden's request. though any participation in a suicide is against state law. >> you could get somewhere between 10 and 15 years for assisting in suicide. >> bixby, who is already awaiting trial on a charge of sexual exploitation of children, is still entitled to a bond hearing on this new charge. it is conducted through a video link to the courthouse, where matthew glidden's mother, sharon glidden, is in attendance. >> all rise. >> good evening. pleasee seated. i am ready for michael bby. >> sharon does not believe her son wanted to die. >> you know, if he had really, really planned this, we thought he would have tried to say good-bye a better way.
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>> do you have a copy of the form for the public defender's office? >> i do. >> mr. bixby, you have a right to a jury trial. >> sharon glidden says on the night of her son's death, he called his brother with a request. >> his brother said, "mom, matt wants me to call classification in the morning and name two people as his enemies so he could get out of there. one of them i do not know. but the other one was bixby. >> i'm going to set bond at $150,000. thank you, sir. good luck to you. >> he is dead. i know that. and there's nothing i can do to bring him back. i miss him. i miss him dearly. i'm seeking help for, you know, to help me through this. i don't know where i'm going to go from here. >> while matthew glidden's family waits for answers regarding his alleged assisted
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suicide, muhammad abdullah deals with a considerably less dire situation. but nonetheless, it has made him unhappy. >> i was fired for giving an inmate some rice. the inmate lied and said that a staff member said that he can have the rice. and so i gave him the rice, but he wasn't authorized to have it on his tray. he was supposed to get potatoes. >> he was fixing a diet tray, and he decided to put what he wanted to put on it because he said the inmate asked for it. but you know what you're supposed to make. he decided to put what the inmate wanted instead of what the protocol calls for. >> according to officer austin, this isn't the first time abdullah gave other inmates unauthorized food. >> the first time he did it, i gave him a warning. second time, i counseled him. third time he gave me, i think, two hours of lockdown. fourth time, he was let go. >> i was fired because i feel like political reasons. you know, i was raising concerns about several issues in the kitchen. >> abdullah says he was complaining the kitchen workers who served staff got to eat
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better than those like him, who serve inmates. >> so we got to eat with the slop. and they get to eat the gourmet. so i was raising hell about that. that's why it was more than me just giving away the rice. it was political in that sense because i was raising concerns about why -- why we're not having the same right as these other inmates. what's the difference in us and them? we're all inmates. and so it got kind of political, and it was like we got to get rid of this mother [ bleep ] because he's going to be a problem. >> staff say abdullah's opinion is far removed from the truth. but abdullah did get some good news. he has been accepted into the jail's drug treatment program to help overcome his addiction. >> i'm at the point in my life where i'm tired of living like how i was living. and i desperately want to become the better person that i am. i know i'm a better person. i'm not a dumb person, but i just make dumb decisions. so hopefully this will help me, you know, eradicate making those dumb decisions.
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>> and today officers are hopeful nobody makes the dumb decision to start a ght on canteen day, especially with a renewed emphasis on a policy that requires inmates to store all their snacks inside a plastic box. >> give me your receipt. bring the receipt back. >> good morning. good morning. good morning. >> sheldon kelly, who got into a canteen-related fight a few weeks earlier, is out of segregation after serving only 10 of his 15-day sanction. >> i filed an appeal and got it overturned by the administrative captain. pretty much went my way. i mean, he overturned it because he felt like i didn't do anything wrong other than defend myself. >> but with no money in his debit account, kelly only receives one of the complimentary indigent packages. >> bar of soap, deodorant, envelopes. because i came off of lockup, i didn't have time to call my family or whatever to put money in my account. they supply you with envelopes, toothpaste, deodorant, things of that nature. this is not going pose a threat.
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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. why y'all take me off my medication? the doctor prescribed to me -- >> an agitated inmate takes severe measures to get staff's attention. >> where's the lieutenant at? i don't believe this. mayberry just swallowed one of the arms off his eyeglasses. >> the doctor says they can't afford the medication. >> i've been told there's crazies here and dangerous people. and they're look at me like i'm a weakling. >> a young first-timer is found unconscious in hisel
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