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>> get on the ground now. >> the challenge of maintaining order in this world is every bit as great. >> when there's issues when ae end up with racial basically wars -- >> it's a world where tensions run high. >> i'll come down the steps. turn my head away, look to the side. the daily drama can be overwhelming. >> i just want to hold my baby one time before he goes to let him know i love him and i'm sorry for being the mom i was.

>> it sucks, man. it really does. >> located on a 400 acre lot southwest of downtown phoenix, the maricopa county jail consists of four indoor facilities that house up to 5,700 inmates and two outdoor tent facilities that can house another 2,000 men and bill. the fifth indoor facility is located four miles away in the heart of the city. the fourth avenue jail houses approximately 2,000 male inmates.

some have actually been convicted of crimes and are awaiting transport to prison. most are still facing trial or sentencing, for everything from i.d. theft to murder. maintaining order here is up to a significantly smaller staff of detention officers. >> we are greatly outnumbered. we try to reduce that by finding out -- going about working -- >> high ranking members of racially segregated gangs who try to control the inmates within their housing units. and in a jail system entry.

drop them all right where they were. >> the five suspected callers are removed from their cell without incident in a matter of

minutes. >> we had a -- >> within their own races. trying to run. jail until they found out who they were and basically shifted them. >> dispersed from the shock collars will help reduce gang activity for the time being but it won't stop the racial divide between inmates. cecile has actually spent time in the hole for refusing to house with african-americans. >> tell me why? >> because it's wrong. >> i'm walking around white power on me. it's nothing personal. it's the way it is. these days kunkel is less concerned with race relations than he is with putting maricopa behind him.

most inmates like him who are still facing charges will plea bargain for shorter sentences. kunkel is so convinced on his case, he's banking on 12 jurors to look past his appearance and set him free. >> my case is cold cut. it's either guilty or not guilty. i feel if i bring my case in front of 12 people, somebody in there is going to agree that i was entrapped. >> kunkel says an undercover cop lured him into a crime he never intended to commit. >> i had a car stereo. approached him, hey, do you want to buy a stereo? he was like, no. if you get checks and credit cards -- i went out and got them. came back and sold them to him. nine months later they charged me. i'm not denying i committed the crime. but the state set me up. you got undercover cops out there intentionally, intentionally coming after people like me. just by how i look and from my past. people see me on the streets.

you know, with all the tattoos. they get a vibe of, like, they think i'm a bad guy. i'm not a bad guy. you know what i mean? i'm a product of the state. this is how the state made me. >> some of kunkel's tattoos are inflammatory. such as the swastika on top of his head. others like the tear drop and the dots below his eye are often associated with gang-related violence. kunkel says his are different. >> how about those tats up there? >> that's my mom. >> over here? >> no comment. >> how about on your head? >> no comment. >> approximately 15 minutes after our interview with him, kunkel's tattoos have led to serious trouble. jail security cameras pick him up at the bottom of his housing pod staircase. he has words with an african-american inmate, when

suddenly violence breaks out. the two men exchange numerous blows as other inmates gather around them. the brawl seems to last for an extended period of time. but it's actually only 41 seconds before security staff can assemble enough officers to not only break up the fight, but to safely secure the pod in order to prevent other inmates from getting involved. >> i belief that the tattoos is basically the main reason for the fight and that the blacks were disrespected by it. when an inmate that has tattoos such as that gentleman did, they

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the fourth avenue jail in maricopa county, arizona, houses more than 2,000 male inmates including those considered to pose the highest security risk. racial tensions run high in this facility. as inmate cecil kunkel discovered shortly after our interview with him in which he showed off his many tattoos. kunkel and robert herd were

placed in isolation cells and were unavailable to us pending an investigation. but herd's friends made their feelings about kunkel crystal clear. >> don't like cecil kunkel. >> [ bleep ]. when you do so much talking and catch so many enemies, it's not everybody else. at some point in time you have to realize it's not everybody else. maybe it's me. see what i'm saying? that's as simple as it's going to get. it can't be everybody else in the world that keeps [ bleep ]. maybe [ bleep ]. ♪ one, two, i'm coming for you ♪ three, four, going to hit the floor ♪ >> two floors above fourth avenue's general population pod is one of its highest security

housing units. where inmates considered too dangerous to freely move among the rest of the population are housed. albert has lived in one of these extremely sparse cells for nearly four years. as his case has lingered on in the courts. >> i'm never going to get out for the rest of my life. i'm only 23 years old. i've been here since i was 20. >> sermano is accused of taking part in a heinous crime. >> they're trying to say i'm the one who planned it out and i'm the one that had everything to do with it. i was the ringleader basically. >> and the prosecutor wants him to pay for the crime with his life. >> he said it was a brutal crime, that i didn't have no remorse for what we did, how we beat the dude up like we just didn't care. it wasn't like that. we were up on dope. wasn't meant to hurt the dude like that. it was a robbery gone bad.

>> prosecutors maintain he's the ringleader, they say he wasn't alone. the jail houses four c co-defendants who are especially close to him. >> my mom, my brother and my mom's boyfriend. >> lured a 47-year-old man to his mother's home and when he arrived, he and the others hog tied him before killing him with garden sheers and dumping his body in the desert. facing a possible death sentence, sermano said he tried to make the best of life at maricopa. >> i only went to two days of high school. since i've been here the past four years, i taught myself to read. i read good now. i go through books like crazy. >> i like the romance.

i like the romance books. i like anything. westerns, mysteries, action. i read anything. if it interests me, if it's a page turner, i'll read it. if it's not, i'll give it away, give it to somebody else. >> back downstairs, sergeant shamrock is investigating the fight between cecil kunkel and robert herd to determine if one or the other provoked it. >> i talked to the inmates at hand and if there's further questioning that needs to be done, i'll talk to the officers. we may review cameras and come to a determination. the exact amount of discipline that we're going to give them. >> robert herd? is that you? >> what's going on, sir? >> how you doing? >> all right. >> you got a writeup here, i see. >> yeah. >> what happened? finny8604 what i'm reading here and the

officers are saying it's a mutual conduct fight you and and other inmates. you want me to remove the camera? at this point you may sit for another couple days until i get determination of your involvement in the incident. and i'll come back and talk to you in a little bit when i get more information. >> all right. >> okay. >> shamrock visits kunkle to get his side of the story. >> mr. kunkle, i'm here to see you again. this is twice in three weeks. what's going on? >> nothing. >> nothing? >> you recall the incident with mr. herd? >> i'm not saying nothing. >> you're not saying nothing? you don't want to work with me on this? >> there ability nothing there. >> i tell you what, i'm going to put an extension on this incident. i'm going to investigate it. you want me to review cameras or film? i go ahead and do that. >> well, that's what you're going to get. you got an officer that's saying one thing. you're telling me you know nothing about it. i got a guy down there that's

telling me he's a victim. okay? 7. >> that's up to you. >> why you got to interview -- >> you're looking at 30 days in here. >> i know. >> okay. you're not helping me out in this situation. i'm here to help you. i'm here to listen to what you got to tell me. what you're saying has nothing -- it's not even jiving with this thing here. you got nothing else to add to this thing. >> nope. >> okay. i have a determination made by the end of the day. >> a short time later, kunkle asked to speak with shamrock again. >> when i came back and spoke with him, he told me he said, look, you know what, i wasn't involved in a fight. i asked him where he got the scratches and said the other guy hit me a couple times but it was mutual. he doesn't have issues with the guy right now. coming up -- maricopa special response team attempts to recover a homemade key from

an inmate considered to be especially dangerous. and later, they turn the jail inside out in search of a very important missing key. >> the set of keys for the armory, for some reason, we have a bathroom key on there. a lot borrow the key to use the restroom. jenna shared her recipe with sharon,

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maricopa county jail in phoenix is handled by detention officers. sheriffs deputies assigned to the jail and who are the frontline in maintaining order. they're backed up by the jail's intelligence division. which is constantly gathering information on potential problems before they can escalate. >> the key's going to look like this. >> okay. >> it's going to be just pretty much etched out of the toothbrush. >> all right. >> so but we got to hit them quick because if not he'll swallow it. >> the fourth avenue jail's intelligence division suspects one of its maximum security inmates of having a homemade handcuff key. >> do the cells in four bravo 200, 100, three, four, do they have the back windows into the water wells? >> yes, they do. >> they do? >> we're going to monkey around.

if i don't answer right away, give me a couple minutes to get back here. >> sergeant nichols will attempt to retrieve the key. to prevent the inmate from swallowing it, they must catch him by surprise. the water well is a plumber's access. we don't necessarily go in the cell to fix these. we go into the water wells. walkway full of plumbing. since we got the water well built, they decided let's put windows. we go on a security walk. the inmates see us and know we were there. okay. we can go in the water wells and turn off the lights and peer in the back windows. if the windows aren't covered with on stabstacles of deodoran. they think it's a shelf to put their junk and they're not. >> sergeant nicholas makes his bay through the darkened water well to cell six in order to check on the inmates suspected of having the home made cuff

key. >> this is cell six right here. he's got his window blocked. so i don't know what he's doing inside. >> with his first surveillance attempt foiled, nicholas turns to more conventional means to confirm the inmate is asleep. >> when's your next security watch? >> nicholas asks one of the nail officers to walk by the inmate's cell. >> go on a security walk and tell me what he's doing. >> hopefully if he's asleep we're going to jump him while he's out. we don't want him to have access to anything before we get there. >> once it's confirmed the inmate is asleep, nicholas finalizes the entry with his team. >> he's dead asleep. >> ditch the shotgun and go in second or go in behind me. >> i'll go hands on. >> cool. i don't have to get dirty today? >> no. >> all right. let's get this stuff secured. >> with their plan in place, the team heads to the sleeping inmate's cell.

his name is albert sermano. ♪ >> let me see your hands. let me see your hands. >> roll on your back. roll on your back. relax. all right. okay. roll on your side, all right? >> put your feet over here, man. hold on, why you got them out flat, i want his trousers off, i want his socks off. >> hands against the wall. pick up one leg. >> i got him. >> over here, sergeant. >> check his boxers. >> yeah.

>> pat him down real quick. in case he's got it somewhere on him. >> i got it. >> check his boxers and stuff. >> while sermano is strip searched, the intelligence unit inspects his cell for the key. >> hiding stuff inside the toilet paper rolls? it's a nightmare to actually get in there and spot anything in there. especially the small items like razors and things like that. >> pull your bottom lip down. upper. seams with their boxers and try to resew it to hide stuff in there. >> run your fingers through your hair. >> take your boxers off. >> though the key is yet to turn up, intelligence officers find other contra band and involves the one thing sermano treasures the most. his books. >> these are messages one gang member is writing to another. these messages will go throughout the facility and that way they'll know these guys are

here and also write other messages that have to do with same thing, like trying to get people, assault people, whatever. they're actually able to hand these over to the staff and the staff sometimes misses it in the searches and actually passes the messages over toth o other inma >> i seen him jump on me, i was like hell no. i thought they were going to [ bleep ] pick me up and throw a me on the ground. i didn't resist. i didn't want to get tased. >> search didn't turn up anything which is good. we did find inside his boxers the opening where there possibly could have been something hidden. it wasn't there at the time we did the search. right now we're calling it off and will continue to monitor the situation to see where it goes. >> i'm not [ bleep ] to get anymore charges or keep myself more logged on than what i am. we barely get to come out as it is. >> all right.

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>> get down. >> hey. i need that dude up there strip searched. >> the special response teams at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, have a broad range of responsibilities. they respond to crisis situations. >>, go, go, go. >> conduct cell inspections for weapons and drugs. >> once they're strip searched, they're going into the rec yard. >> and escort high-profile inmates to court to name a few. but sometimes, these elite law enforcement officers find themselves taking on very different duties. >> gentlemen, get up. >> one minute it can be exciting and one minute it can be, you know, you're looking through garbage. so i mean, it has its ups and downs. for the most parts it has its ups. >> having recently shaken down inmate albert sermano -- >> let me see your hands.

>> who they thought had a home made cuff key, they're in search of another key. >> an officer inadvertently taken it home and hasn't realized it yet, but apparently the phone calls have been made and everyone claims they don't have the keys. we're going to tear this level apart. i want you two, you're going to check the clinic. okay, you two start tearing this core apart. give her a hand. we're going to literally tear this whole level apart cell by cell. >> the missing key is to the jail's armory, where nonlethal, though still very dangerous weapons are stored. >> start tearing the place apart. >> since the missing armory keys could very well be in the hands of an inmate by now, no part of the jail is left out of the search. >> they could have cut out a space inside the books to plan

to steal the keys. and then once they did, hid them in here, thinking they won't check them. >> start from behind the door. work this way. i already got all this. >> but as his officers turn the unit upsidedown, sergeant nicholas gets wind of new information. that further complicates matters. >> the set of keys for the armory, for some reason we had a bathroom key on there and a lot of civilians borrow that key to use the restroom. now the whole missing keys just got worse. not only an officer may have misplaced it but a nurse, religious volunteer, somebody, may have used the bathroom and stuck it in their pocket and gone home. so note to self, take bathroom key off armory key set. >> while the key could be almost anywhere in this massive jail system, it's probably not with

cecil kunkel in the middle of a 20 day lockdown for having fought with another inmate. >> it's a one-on-one fight and it is what it is. it's something that always happens. it ain't nothing. you know what i'm saying? that's all there is to it. you know? >> kunkel claims his conflict with inmate robert herd was a run of the mill jailhouse fight. but herd says kunkel sucker punched him to avoid a fight with a bigger inmate who was angry kunkel was flaunting his tattoos. >> he was nervous to fight that certain person. he was looking for a plea bargain, a way out, a way to sign out. the way to sign out is run up in the middle of pod where the camera is at and run up and swing on somebody so the police can break it up. that way he gets moved so he won't ever have to face that man. i'm coming down the steps, one of my people asks something of me. i turn my head away and look to the side. that's how the fight started.

>> after officials investigated the fight and viewed the surveillance footage, they cleared herd of any wrongdoing and gave kunkel additional time in segregation. >> show the tattoos and swastikas don't mean nothing. having your own situation with the person you have a problem with, don't pick the fight with the little person and get beat up. >> kunkel has made enemies during his time at maricopa, he also has his supporters. >> seems like every pod we go into, there's guys who are after him. >> yeah, i don't know what it is, man. he's not a bad guy. i don't think people like him. i don't know why. there's other people that have tattoos. you know? whoever wants to get at him. >> josh pike has known kunkel's family most of his life. though they're not relatives, he thinks of kunkel as his cousin.

>> look, there's my cousin. hey. >> is cecil a racist? >> i can't answer that one. i'm not sure. because of his tattoos? >> he has a huge swastika. >> that doesn't signify you're a racist. >> what does it signify? >> that i can't talk about. unfortunately i can't talk about. >> tell me why. >> it's kind of like our thing. as far as being a convict. >> while pike wouldn't say what kunkel's tattoos signify, he has an unlikely ally in his claims that kunkel is not a racist. >> real white boys, real racists. he's not one of them. real skin heads don't get hot. you know what i mean? it's like he's a nobody. >> what do you think when you see a swastika on his head and all that stuff? >> first off -- i look at the

person it is and find out the way the person is, it's like ignorant. it's funny to me. i laugh it off, don't disrespect me, i won't disrespect you. >> after his stay in segregation, kunkel is less interested in respecting his fellow inmates than putting them behind him. >> start trial tuesday. start picking my jury on tuesday. just go from there i guess. >> knowing he would soon be facing a jury, kunkel's lawyer also advised him to grow his hair. >> because when you go in there, like looking the way i look, people are like, damn, this dude's been in prison all his life. i don't want people to think that about me. >> they offered me three plea bargains already. i turned all of them down. i believe at least one person on that jury panel will be like, you know what, i can't convict him on that. if i didn't feel that way, i would have took a plea bargain a long time ago.

see what they have to say about it. i'm willing to roll the dice. coming up -- albert sermano tries unsuccessfully to cut deal to avoid a death sentence. >> they denied the 25 to life. i asked my lawyer to put in for the natural life. >> another part of maricopa, his mother comes to terms with her part in the murder that landed them here. >> i just want to hold my baby one time before he goes to let him know that i love him. and that i'm sorry for being the mom that i was. [ male announcer ] feeling like a shadow of your former self?

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himself in court for the first time. >> all right, buddy. stay out of trouble, all right? let me know what's going on. hey, cut your hair. [ bleep ]. >> i'm on trial. >> with jury selection completed, his trial for selling stolen checks to an undercover police officer is about to get under way. >> i made my fair share of mistakes but i mean, damn, i got set up this time, you know what i mean? >> kunkel heads through an underground tunnel through the maricopa county jail to the courthouse where he will entrust his fate to 12 strangers. >> hopefully they believe my story. you know what i mean? if they don't, like i said, man, i'm todone. it's all over, you know? if they come back to say i'm guilty, my mind set's going to e like, it's going to be [ bleep ]. the real monster is going to come out.

>> unlike kunkel, albert sermano facing a possible death sentence for murder, was hoping to avoid a jury and cut a deal for 25 to life. but he's just gotten word that the prosecutor said no way. so now it's on to plan "b." letting his lawyers submit a plea bargain for natural life. meaning he will never be a free man. >> i've asked my lawyer to ask for it because they denied the 25 to life. i asked him to put in for the natural life. he was telling me that's probably my best bet, too, because he says he doesn't see a 50/50 chance of win might case. i said [ bleep ]. >> there was a develop with one of his co-defendants, his mother, connie, housed four miles away in maricopa's women's facility has pled guilty for her role in the murder. she says that now she's more concerned about albert than she is herself. >> i found out friday he's going

to sign up for natural life. i broke down in the pod. all the girls hugged me and told me it was going to be okay. but they just don't understand. they -- nobody in here can understand if they don't have their kids in here incarcerated. i just want to hold my baby one time before he goes. to let him know that i love him and that i'm sorry for being the mom that i was. and just for him to stay strong. just to stay strong. because he has a road to go. there's a lot of evidence against my son. >> connie is facing a sentence of at least 25 to life. her other son, carlos, has also signed a 25 to life deal for his role in the killing. >> 25 to life is where you have a chance to have parole. and natural life. you'll never be able to come out again. you will die there.

there's times that i want to end my life because of it. i just can't believe that we're here. i can't believe that my sons are -- i'll never see my sons again. my boyfriend again. just off of one mistake. >> sermano now holds out hope that the prosecutor will quickly accept his plea proposal for natural life. if for no other reason, he might get to sign the paperwork at the same time his mother signs hers. >> last time i'll ever get to see my mom. hopefully they let me have this court date on the 23rd and see what happens. be able to hug her one more time. that's it. 7. >> step out, kunkel. >> cecil kunkel's future is largely in his own hands now.

with his trial about to get under way, he's released from his courtroom holding cell and although he will be allowed to change into civilian clothing to face the jury, the jury will never know that underneath his shirt is a stun belt to prevent any misconduct. >> this thing ain't going to go off now, is it? >> i don't know. depends on if you get squirrely. may go off. kind of sensitive. you've worn one of these before? >> no, first time. >> first time? >> yeah. first time for everything, you know? >> you know what it is? >> this is some type of taser device, i guess. i don't know. i don't know -- i don't want to know what it is to tell you the truth. >> later, kunkel's moment of truth timely arrives. >> you do solemnly swear the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> yes, i do. >> he is about to take the stand. and hopes to convince a jury that he only sold stolen checks to an undercover officer because

he was entrapped. >> do you remember the events that everybody was talking about? >> yes, i do. very well. >> in order to have any hope of getting an acquittal, kunkel's attorney, brian berelli, must establish it was never kunkel's idea to sell the checks but he was urged to commit the crime by the undercover officer. >> now, before you met the detective, had you ever planned to sell people checks before that? >> absolutely not. i went up on the truck and asked if he was interested in buying a stereo and he said, he's really not into that type of merchandise. but if i come across any checks or credit cards, he would be interested in that type of merchandise. >> did you know someone you could get them from? >> i had an idea of somebody i could get them from. >> now, after your whole conversation with the detective, what did you think he would do

if you brought him checks? >> well, i was under the impression he wanted to buy them. >> if you hadn't met detective [ bleep ], would you have ever sold anyone the checks? >> no. if i wouldn't have never met him, i wouldn't be here right now. >> thank you. >> kunkel must noud face off against prosecutor. >> and the first thing that you asked detective [ bleep ], did you see the other person in the car? >> yes. >> okay. that was detective [ bleep ]? >> yes. >> and so the first thing you said to them is, hey, you guys cops? >> yeah. >> so you wondered if they were cops? >> yes, i did. >> so you knew what you were doing was wrong? >> no. i just -- i wasn't trying to get wrapped up in anything bad. because like i said, like i was telling the jury earlier, where i'm from, the neighborhood i'm from, there's police everywhere. so i didn't want to get wrapped up in something like i am now. is what i'm saying.

>> nothing else, judge. >> jury questions and thank you very much. >> thank you. >> after kunkel's testimony, brian berelli makes his closing arguments to the jury. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. some of you may believe cecil's no angel. he sold the checks. i don't care what the officers did. but remember what the judge told you. you can believe the law is wrong, but you must follow the law. the law says if it was the officer's idea, which it was, if the officer urged or induced him which he did, and unless cecil was predisposed to commit this crime already, you must find him not guilty. ladies and gentlemen, i ask that you follow the law. i ask that you find cecil not guilty. >> all right.

thank you, mr. borelli. >> the jury convened. all that's left for kunkel is the waiting. and coming up, officers get a break in the missing armory key mystery. [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8.

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it's been a good day for sergeantç david nicholas and h special response team. they have been searching for a lost key to the jail's armory. where a battery of weapons is stored. >> miraculously the keys just appe appeared. showed up out of nowhere. found them on a desk ttop with one to be seen. out of embarrassment, someone accidentally took the set of keys home, didn't want anyone to find out about it, the next morning snuck them back. >> do they still keep the

bathroom key with the armory key? >> i do believe they have reconfigured their key sets and how they secure them, but give it six months, it will happen again and we'll two to plan c. that's it. keys found. case closed. >> in a nearby courtroom, cecil kunkel's case is still open but not for long. he's about to find out whether he will spend the next 15 to 61 years in prison for selling stolen checks to an undercover officer. >> has the jury reached a verdict? you are positioned that you think that you're hopelessly deadlo deadlocked, you don't think further deliberations would help you reach a decision? >> right. >> everybody's on the same page? all right. ladies and gentlemen, the court will declare a mistrial and excuse the jury. >> the jury's inability to reach a verdict means kunkel's case

will be tried again. not being found guilty left him energized. >> you know what, get ready to go for round two. i guess it was a deadlock. get ready to go again. i was hoping to walk today. obviously we had some people who believe i was guilty and some felt i wasn't. so just go back to trial. you know what i mean, it ain't no big deal to me. >> how did you feel about the black judge when you walked in? >> i thought it was a good thing. to tell you the truth. >> how come? >> how come? because -- how come. because the majority of the judges out here will send your ass up the river quick. i'm not saying because he's black he gave me a break or nothing like that. i'm in here for them setting me up. >> but a retrial wasn't meant to be. a couple of weeks later, kunkel's lawyer reached a deal with the prosecutor. kunkel will soon walk out of

jail with one year of probation to complete. and before he leaves, kunkel has decided to return to his pretrial look. >> we're going to shave this dirt off my head. >> why's that? >> because i'm tired of having it. people see me with all the tattoos and they're going to think what they want, but there's, you know what i mean? you got to get to know me as a person, as a man, as a human, you know what i mean, before you jump to conclusions, you know what i'm saying? if you take the time to get to know me, you'll see, man, that, you know, i feel i'm a caring person, a loving person. a person that has respect. respects others. regardless of your race. gender. whatever. you know what i mean? if you cross that line, then, you know, it is what it is, man. i just take a day at a time. you know what i'm saying? i'm not here to change people's feelings. you know what i'm saying? you like me or don't. if you don't like me, tell me.

i don't give a damn. you know what i mean? looks good. >> ready to get out? >> i'll hit it with a razor tonight. yeah. >> cecil, what's next? >> beautiful women. and some good food. that's what's next. >> but even kunkel's surrogate cousin, josh pike, predicts the good times might not last for long. >> six months to a year. if he ain't back by then, he should be out for a little while. >> i'm happy he's out. i'm pissed they let his ass out. >> why? >> i want to beat him up now. look at him. you know what, though, that gives me hope. if that tattooed [ bleep ], they let him out, there's hope for me. i guess. >> what's not next? >> coming back to jail.