year, nearly 70,000 people make their way through one of the five facilities that comprise the orange county jailiven day, up to 3,000 of them can be found at orange county's largest facility, theo lacey. one way to measure the challenge of managing such a large inmate population can be found in the theo lacey kitchen, where inmate workers prepare 9,000 meals per day. >> i've actually heard that if an inmate had to be incarcerated they prefer to come to orange county jail because they are fed well. they are fed more colorfully. and our nutritional guidelines and standards are the same as the rest of the state. but we put a lot of care and energy into what we do. >> while lower security level inmates eat in the chow hall, the majority of inmates are confined to their cells. their meals are delivered by inmate workers, like robert mason. >> it really helps that i used to work at denny's. it makes me thankful where i am at because at least we get to come out three times a day. it passes the time a lot quicker. these guys are locked down 23 hours a day, 22 hours a day. time goes by real slow up there

housewives of orange county. >> few people know that better than orange county sheriff sandra hutchins. among other things, she runs orange county's other gated community. the orange county jail. >> it is dynamic. every day is a bit different. so you constantly have to be re-evaluating that and the folks work in the housing areas are very astute at identifying problems early on and that's the key. you're dealing with a population that doesn't want to be there, they're not necessarily there with people they like, they're probably facing some very challenging times in their lives. >> the greatest challenge for many inmates in the orange county jail is uncertainty. unlike prison inmates, who have already been convicted and sentenced for crimes they have committed, most jail inmates stand charged with crimes, and are still working their cases through the court system. the process can take years. so some try to make their jail cells home. >> this is the living room right here. we keep the books and the magazines and trash. this is the kitchen where we eat and everything. this is the bathroom, the washing machine/shower, bird bath. >> with such close quarters, deputies constantly m

county's other side. the theo lacy jail is the largest of five jail facilities in the orange county system. it sits on 11 acres and has a capacity of more than 3,000 inmates. >> let's go. hands behind your back. back row go to the house. >> marc gonzales is one of them, and except for his jail-issued t-shirt and scrubs, he could easily be mistaken for any other fun-loving oc teenager. >> i love surfing. i love the ocean. it's the best. the promised land here. nothing could go wrong except for robbing a weed store and getting arrested. my m is in a lot of shock right now. it's the first offense. my baby is robbing weed stores? what does he need that for? >> unlike most inmates in the orange county jail system who have not been convicted but are awaiting trial, gonzales pled guilty to robbery and received a one-year sentence. with good behavior he could be out in nine months, and if his family gets its way back in minnesota. >> i have a bunch of newspapers under my bed because my mom sent me a subscription because i wanted to stay updated with what was going on in minnesota, concert-wise and

davies. >>> the best day for an inmate at the orange county jail is the day he or she is released.he second best just might be any day they receive their commissary order. the jail stocks a variety of snacks, toiletries, and other basics, which inmates can purchase with their own funds from a debit account. >> we used to do everything hand input. and now we actually have an automated system with scan tron forms that the inmates will fill out three times a week. we scan it through our system and fill the orders through the commissary. the items we have there are top brand items. they're not just your mom and pop items. >> order up some soap. got to have the stamps, you know, stamps more than likely. soaps, you know, because there might be a meal you might want to skip out on, believe me. you know? trust me. the hot cheetos and the soup. it's like a fusion, gives you that nice spice, the right texture. that's pretty good stuff right there. >> beau de'arborne likes commissary as much as anyone but feels there's room for improvement. >> i recommend there's a few that can be added not o

on our first day of filming "extended stay" inside orange county jail in california, we covered the trauma of a young man's first day in jail. >> i'm in the orange county jail. i'm like in a room with no windows, no nothing. nobody -- i don't know what's going on. i don't know. >> when we met 20-year-old comprehensive identity theft protection available, guarding your social security number, your money, your credit, even the equity in your home. while identity theft can't be completely stopped, no one works harder to protect you than lifelock. you even get a $1 million service guarantee. that's security no one can beat. you have so much to protect and nothing to lose when you call lifelock right now and get 60 days of identity theft protection risk free-- that's right, 60 days risk free-- use promo code "not me". order now and get this document shredder to keep sensitive documents out of the wrong hands-- a $29 value, free. [click-click] [♪...] >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> you've got to tell me where to go. >> you've never been to jail before? >> no, i

. >> day-to-day management of the orange county jail in southern california is up to sheriff's deputies. some work permanently at the jail while most others rotate through, then return to street patrol. >> all right. let's line up. let's do a gear check. let's line up on the wall right here. >> a select group of deputies make up the emergency response team, a s.w.a.t.-like unit called to action when inmates refuse orders or cause an imminent threat. >> hang left. >> watch out, watch out, watch out. >> wielding a broken mop stick and other cleaning supplies, joseph etima, who has pled not guilty to a murder charge and is awaiting trial, has refused to return to his cell. >> he's upset because the hispanic inmates think he's black. he's saying he's not. he's saying he's hispanic. they don't want to program with him, so he wants out of there, and this is his way of doing it. we don't know what's going to happen once we get inside there. we don't know what the other inmates are going to do. when you go inside there, watch each other's back. handle any situation that arises. our job is not t

. >> every week 1,200 men and women are arrested and booked into the orange county jail in southern california. some will be released in hours. some will be here for years but they always begin their time at the intake center located at the central jail facility. >> orange county jail system is considered a mega jail. we have the ability to house over 7,000 inmates at one time. and the challenges we face pretty much reflect, to a certain degree, the challenges the community faces with gang affiliations, with drug abuse, mental problems, issues that would be better served in hospitals but given the current situation they end up in jails. >> since the new arrivals' charges might range from minor infractions to murder, deputies must be vigilant to ensure safety. >> the uncuffing process is probably the most dangerous. that's where if they're going to do something to us, they'll do it then. once they're uncuffed they have an opportunity to attack us if they want to. it's a lost judging on our behalf to see where they're at, if they're going to try anything or not. >> brian james came through intak

when we first met clarence butterfield he had been incarcerated for more than a year at the orange county jail in southern california. like most jail inmates he had not been convicted but was incarcerated awaiting trial. he had pled not guilty to the murder of his daughter. but that didn't stop him taking jokes. >> how about a d.a. takes a gun under his arm into a bar. bartender goes, you can't come in here with a pig. he goes it's not a pig. it's a duck. he goes, i was talking to the duck. >> clarence butterfield is an older gentleman, old man, i guess you could call him. a giddy old man. happy. happy to be here. >> diagnosed with hyperverbal. >> we can't all be winners now, can we? you have to be people like me to make you real winners in life look really good. >> butterfield kind of jumps from one subject to another subject really quickly. he was really hard to follow in conversation. >> you know me, i'm kind of ignored. kind of being married for 26 years, i'm really used to being ignored anyway. >> we start asking him direct questions. and he would answer about something completely off the

at the orange county jail in southern california we met a transgender inmate who prefers to be callednd my celly are dressed as girls and the rest are dressed as guys. >> despite his physical appearance cortez was a male inmate housed in a men's unit. >> if you are in the process of having a sex change, if you have your male genital parts you are considered a male and be housed there whether or not you have breasts or -- it's what's below the belt that counts. >> at first it was startling watching these tapes when they came in from the field we thought we were seeing inmates wearing women's gowns or miniskirts and thinking it's odd that jail officials allow this. but it turned out this that they were standard jail issued t-shirts and bed sheets that the inmates converted into women's clothing and they did a convincing job of it. >> try to make the best of it you know. we have our own personal revlon and l'oreal, mac crayons. we wet them. we play with it. get it nice and dark and it goes into the eyes. all we do is just -- and she's about ready to go. i don't know where she's going to

. >> at the orange county jail, we covered the story of inmate jeremy bowles, whose sweaty workout routineseft his cell window covered in condensation. >> can you see me? >> yeah. >> and sure enough he wiped the steam away and it made a dynamic shot. >> bowles later invited director of photography brian kelly to experience mattress curling. one of his improvised in-cell workouts. >> stick your ass out, like you're taking a squat. guarantee that will [ bleep ] you up quick. >> it's heavy. >> yeah. you feel it? >> oh, yeah. >> my arms are bigger than his. >> look at the guns. >> it was as if i was doing a barbell curl. i don't know what the weight was but there was some resistance there and it was an effective exercise for these guys to actually work their biceps. it was great. i'm going to go back to work. >> while prisons are full of male inmates, sweating and grunting through their workouts, we've noticed many female inmates take a more relaxed approach to fitness. >> by far, male inmates work out much more than female inmates. it's -- it's very rare to see a male inmate that doesn't work

. >> we met miramontes at the orange county jail.e he was a member of a los angeles street gang and a meth addict. it seemed out of sorts with the young man who enjoyed reading novels and writing poetry. >> i like to read a lot. i like nicolas sparks. "walk to remember." "notebook." >> oh, so like romantics? >> oh, yeah, i'm a sucker for that. >> even cry when you read the sad part? >> yeah. most of the guys don't want to admit that because, hey, we're in jail. you know. but i don't care. >> but miramontes was facing the possibility of a lifetime in prison. >> been almost two years. my charges are special circumstance murder. big case. big case. >> miramontes had entered a not guilty plea and was still awaiting trial when we met him. the night of the murder, he says he was visiting friends in an orange county gang and that they were all drinking and high on drugs. while driving around their neighborhood, his friend stopped to confront a 19-year-old man who had allegedly flashed a rival gang sign. >> what ended up happening was the or

authorities released 20-year-old sherry cogner on $15,000 bail after they booked her into the orange county jailafternoon. she joins ten other men charged in the november death of 26-year-old drum major robert champion whose phasing has damaged the rep of the university's well known marching group. >>> and you may have noticed that the night sky was brighter than usual this weekend and that's because the rare full moon was at its closest orbit to earth on saturday. the so-called super moon was about 4,000 miles closer than its normal distance. astronomers say the moon won't be this picture perfect again until the year 2029. so hopefully you caught it. >>> talk about a money making marvel, the avengers soared into the unprecedented box office opening weekend and set this all-time record, $200 million in ticket sales. that means it topped the earnings of the final installment of the harry potter series but "the hunger games" and "spiderman" as well. of course leave it up to "saturday night live" to roast patricia krentcil the very tanned mother who was arrested for allegedly taking her daughter in

he was arrested and booked into the orange county jail on a child abuse charge because the victims wereeleased. ewing admitted to the beating and told police it was in retaliation for being jumped by one of the teens a couple of days earlier. we don't know yet if the other man, the other attacker in the video was arrested, because we don't know his identity, and police aren't talking about it. >> how do they find the video and who shot it? >> it's interesting. we know how they found it, it was an anonymous tip from a woman who "wanted to intervene for the two victims," so she called it in to police after a quick youtube search, authorities were able to find the victims -- find the video and that's how they were able to identify this man and arrest him. >> were they able to identify the kids and talk to them in. >> they were. they did identify the kids and did speak to them. none of the victims thankfully were seriously hurt but they're not identifying them of course because they are minors. affiliate wftv was able to track down and speak to the father of one of the victims. he would not

county jail. and i saw him walking towards me in this orange jump suit. and he was very tall and lanky and he looked very non-threatening and he came up to me and he shook my hand. he was very polite. he was almost charming, he was gracious, he hung his head. said it was nice to meet me. i kept having to tell myself, remember what you just saw. remember that you just came out of a torture chamber that this person completely designed. even for me with the experience and background i had, i kept looking at him, thinking, no one would ever think that he is capable of what i just saw. >> this is david's truck right here, his original truck. >> ray was well respected for his mechanical ability. to those who knew him, he did not seem like a man who tortured and possibly killed women in his spare time. and he had no prior run-ins with the law. >> he was just a real nice guy. he was just real nice, real smart. he was always eager to help these other guys do things, you know, around here. >> but he also put his mechanical mind to nefarious purposes. >> this looks

in those and neighboring counties, by that he meant in orange county in the virginia piedmont, there have in recent weeks on 10 weeks being jailed, width, find, and otherwise mistreated for being baptists and spreading baptist teachings. in fact, there were also a couple of cases in nearby counties. it happened fortuitously, although i don't know if mattison would've said this was fortuitous. it happened that madison was born in the epicenter of radical protestantism in america. the baptist movement was in the neighboring counties in virginia the two of them were witnessed to this treatment that was being given to the baptists in virginia. these very last few years of the colonial period. besides the whippings that were complained of, in one case, the local leader of the gentry, that is the local elite cheap figure, -- waited until the baptists had gone into a meeting on sunday, he locked the doors and through api through the window. there was another episode of the gentry, this was an episcopalian church, likely a wizard family to pay for the capital. another time, another family in colonial virginia had waited for the baptist

orange jump suit. like chester proudly served his country for more than 4 years before returning home, getting into trouble and and finding himself here. county jailions like this unfortunately. at least now we are segregated to a point that we can talk to one another. >>reporter: he's in the county new veteran only dormatory. facility allows the sheriff to stream line programs geared to to the former soldiers. >> the people the veteran they get access to the program that hopefully will address some of their concerns or needs. >>reporter: the sheriff says after deployment veterans typically suffer from alcoholism or ptsd. sew incorporate program that confront drug addiction and mental illness to transition back to life outside prison walls. >> what we are doing is starting the process and then making seemless incarceration. so the mentor here is the mentor they have outside. >> as more servicemen and women come home in need of a little help, volunteers say it's now the community duty to provide it. >> if there was a group that deserve as second chance, these guys we owe them. they served this country with valor. >> similar programs have been seen

this and neighboring counties and by that he meant orange county on the virginia piedmont there have in recent weeks been several people who have been jailed, whipped, find and mistreated for being baptists and spreading baptist's teachings. there were also a couple cases in nearby counties and it happened fortuitously although i don't know whether madison said this was fortuitous but it happened madison was born in the epicenter of radical protestantism in america. the baptist movement was strongest in neighboring counties in virginia and happened that was thomas jefferson's home county. they were witness to this treatment that was being meted out to the baptists in virginia and the last few years of the colonial period. besides the with things, findings and jailings that madison -- we have other episodes. the local leader of the gentry, the local elite chief figurehead waited until the local baptists had gone in for their meeting on sunday morning and closed the door and walked them and had thrown a beehive through the window. there was another episode in which a leader of the gentry, this one also eat is the alien because that was the e

in those and neighboring counties, by that he meant in orange county in the virginia piedmont, there have in recent weeks on 10 weeks being jailedwidth, find, and otherwise mistreated for being baptists and spreading baptist teachings. in fact, there were also a couple of cases in nearby counties. it happened fortuitously, although i don't know if mattison would've said this was fortuitous. it happened that madison was born in the epicenter of radical protestantism in america. the baptist movement was in the neighboring counties in virginia the two of them were witnessed to this treatment that was being given to the baptists in virginia. these very last few years of the colonial period. besides the whippings that were complained of, in one case, the local leader of the gentry, that is the local elite cheap figure, -- waited until the baptists had gone into a meeting on sunday, he locked the doors and through api through the window. there was another episode of the gentry, this was an episcopalian church, likely a wizard family to pay for the capital. another time, another family in colonial virginia had waited for the baptist to

in those and neighboring counties, by that he meant in orange county in the virginia piedmont, there have in recent weeks on 10 weeks being jailedidth, find, and otherwise mistreated for being baptists and spreading baptist teachings. in fact, there were also a couple of cases in nearby counties. it happened fortuitously, although i don't know if mattison would've said this was fortuitous. it happened that madison was born in the epicenter of radical protestantism in america. the baptist movement was in the neighboring counties in virginia the two of them were witnessed to this treatment that was being given to the baptists in virginia. these very last few years of the colonial period. besides the whippings that were complained of, in one case, the local leader of the gentry, that is the local elite cheap figure, -- waited until the baptists had gone into a meeting on sunday, he locked the doors and through api through the window. there was another episode of the gentry, this was an episcopalian church, likely a wizard family to pay for the capital. another time, another family in colonial virginia had waited for the baptist to