the suffolk county jail makes a major detail. >>> and ryan mcnee gets news from his brother. >> he's doing what he does, problem before i leave here he might be back here. who knows? x >>> boston'sfolk county jail is comprised of two facilities. the house of correction, for inmate whose have been convicted, and the nashua street jail for detainees awaiting trial. for the past ten months, delshaun bloodworth has been incarcerated at nashua. awaiting trial on charges of armed robbery and assault and battery but now he's about to make the move to the house. he's accepted a plea bargain and has been sentenced to two and a half years. >> the judge said this is a gift to me and i should appreciate it because i could have easily got more time. people don't know, armed robbery is a serious, serious charge. so i gladly took it. >> but the plea deal, he admitted his role in the robbery of a woman in downtown boston. >> we roll up behind her and i told her not to yell. people like to yell and then we run off, no, she didn't yell because i told her not to. she might have if didn't said anything or if she didn't see the gun. but told her to give me everything you got. give me everything. i w

boston, massachusetts, has become known as the city of neighborhoods. with deep-rooted loyalties running through its diverse communities. but when certain bostonians take territorial pride a little too far, they could wind up in the suffolk county jail. >> there are approximately 180 or so street gangs within boston. just neighborhood street gangs. that, you know, they're all comprised of a couple of blocks, sometimes a project, sometimes an entire neighborhood, certainly. and in almost every case, every group has some sort of serious feud with at least four to five other groups within the city of boston. >> and over the past 10 years, the structure of those gangs has changed and that's had a serious impact on the jail. >> such as it was, there was a bit of a code about what you did and what you didn't do. and that seems to have gone by the wayside, and what that translates into is some of this wild west mentality and sort of shooting for any slight, real or imagined. >> that's just how it is. a bank robber robs banks, a nurse helps patients, gang members shoot each other. >> back to the [ bleep ] hole. >> 22-year-old delshaun bloodworth says he spent the last ten years as a member of one of boston's local street gangs. >> i got old

go on the treadmill. >> when it comes to doing time at boston's suffolk county jail, cindy archer is ld hand. this is her 14th stay at the jail and she's learned a few tricks along the jail. >> i make eyeliner. see? eyeliner. >> reporter: makeup is considered jail contraband. and inmates caught with it could receive a disciplinary write-up, so archer has turned to an unusual source as a substitute. >> it's the black stuff from the window, and you put that grease on it and it makes the air liner. you activate it with the hair grease and it turns black. it doesn't hurt me. i've been doing it for the last ten years. it's like real eyeliner out on the street. nobody can make it as black as me, though. >> during those ten years, archer's been in and out of jail that she claims stemmed from her long drug addiction. the time has been made easier by the presence of her good friend, valerie minacapeli, but few things in jail are permanent. minacapeli was released a few days ago. >> i miss valerie very much. i called her monday night, she said she was doing okay. she answered the phone, collect

nature at its most delicious. >>> at the suffolk county jail in boston, both men and women live in the house of correction. one of two facilities that comprise the jail system. they're housed on separate floors but that doesn't stop them from finding ways to communicate. >> it's 192, we get to talk to the guys downstairs. >> how do you talk to them? >> through the toilets. we clear them out and yell through the pipes. you could do it this way which people laugh at all the time. >> what are you doing? >> i'm plunging the toilet with my ass. >> because you can't talk to them unless it's clear so you got to get all the water out. >> yo! >> yeah, say hi. >> hello! this is the only way they'll do an interview. >> this is the only way they'll do an interview. >> life for most inmates at the suffolk county jail is anything but fun and games. inside the jail's nashua street facility is a housing unit for those inmates whose charges have given them a reputation among other inmates. a reputation that could result in grave consequences. >> special housing unit, what we call the shu is typically w

viewer discretion is advised. >>> the deputies who manage the day-to-day operation of boston's suffolk county jailmerous responsibilities that all fall under one primary goal. safely securing the men and women who are incarcerated here. >> are you all right? >> but jail officials also put resources into keeping young people from ending up here in the first place. >> because jail is glamorized so much in film and music and other places, they really don't have any idea what it's actually like. and this shows them what it is actually like. >> today, four boys ranging in age from 12 to 16 have just arrived at the jail for a visit. all four have had run-ins with the law. >> everybody stand up. >> deputy justin plaza heads up the program known as jailbreak. >> jailbreak is geared towards kids that are headed towards -- in the wrong direction. >> put these uniforms on over your clothes, hurry up. >> not doing the right thing, making bad choices, and we bring the kids in and show them what jail life is really like. >> how old are you? >> 12. >> why are you here? >> i cut a teacher. >> you cut a teacher? l

running man. >> do the running man dance. >> krystle o'reilly continues her time at the suffolk county jail in boston trial for allegedly robbing two banks. but her life in jail has taken a major turn. her cell mate and good friend, melanie reddy recently had her prostitution charge dismissed and has returned to the streets. >> the neighborhood that i'm from, the armpit of massachusetts, it's gangbangers, drug dealers, prostitutes and addicts. i love it. i don't know what it is about that place because it's disgusting, but i [ bleep ] love it. >> i know how it is like being out there, especially when you're not ready. i want to really try to change, but she blatantly said she wasn't ready. which i respect that. she knew i wanted to get clean, so we didn't talk too much about using, and she wanted to use so i didn't talk too much about getting clean. >> but we talked about everything else. >> not surprisingly, o'reilly received distressing news about her friend. >> we heard she o.d.'d. so it left me really upset. i haven't cried since i been here. that was the first time i cried. nobody knew anything

suffolk county inmates. >> hey! >>> i was [ bleep ]. >> inmates at boston's suffolk county jail often refer to the disciplinary segregationunit as the box. but for a handful of inmates, time in the box does nothing to deter their behavior. >> i can't help it, man. you know? >> in those cases, the jail has one other more drastic option. it can transfer them to another jail in a neighboring county. >> we'll accept inmates from other facilities who are having issues in their populations and vice versa. what we try to do is give them a fresh start. we'll send the classification department. we'll send individuals out to different counties where the smoke or drama may not be and we see if they can live in population. because we don't want a large contingency of people in our segregation units. it creates more disciplinary problems and we try to keep down the violence. if we try to stem some of the violence, we do. >> that step has now been taken with one of suffolk county's most notorious inmates, daniel esdale. >> yeah, man. >> mr. esdale was transferred to another facility for a week. he was here for a long time and sort of t

year. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> doing time in boston's suffolk county jail from the colleges or ivy league university located just miles away. but once a week, those two worlds intersect when students from harvard university and boston college come to the jail to help inmates earn their geds. >> for them to come in and do it for us, us little convicts, i should say, that's a good thing. looking out for us. showing us, you know what i'm saying, there is a world out there. there is help out there. people want to help you. >> girard cohen has been teamed with alexander, a harvard sophomore. >> it's one of these things, you can do the answers in your head probably, but just to be sure, because we all make mistakes and try do it in our head, just write it out. it will take five extra seconds, but it's totally worth it, if you're taking a test. each answer matters for the final score. people have a wall about what how they think of prisoners and what this whole community is like and it's just not true. if you work with someone consistently for a while, you really

there's a good reason why some inmates try to avoid trouble while serving time at the suffolk county jail in boston they don't receive a disciplinary write up they can earn good time or days off their sentences. with the good time that he's eligible to learn, 65-year-old anthony peppe's release was less than two months away. >> there's nothing better than getting out of jail. it's like such an awesome feeling. you know, i can't describe it because you have to be in prison to know what it is to be free again. a ton of bricks is off my shoulder, you know? >> but peppe has just been told he will not be earning 15 days of good time. he's been sanctioned for fighting. >> inmate peppe was down in a medium security housing unit in 121. the officer heard scuffling coming from back of the unit. as the officer approached, he looked into his cell and found that inmate peppe was breathing heavily, bending down. he noticed that the other inmate was doing the same and had some scratch marks on him. there were they were able to write him up for fighting or some altercation. inmate peppe alleges that he was just s