. >> and inspectors provide inmates with life and death answers about the allegedly tainted bologna sandwiches. >>> behind the walls of grand rapids kent county jail, tensions inside housing unit d-3a have been running high since hiv-positive inmate jeremy merithew implied that he contaminated several sandwiches with body fluids and gave them away to other inmates. officers have just been called to another emergency one floor below. the fight has broken out between two inmates. the officer on duty calls for backup. employs pepper spray in an attempt to break it up. but the fight continues. seconds later, backup arrives and the two men are separated. deputies then secure the unit, ordering all inmates back to their cells. >> told you -- >> the inmates involved are byron tolbert and wilfredo vasquez. >> get back over there. >> with their eyes still stinging from the pepper spray, the inmates are taken to the segregation unit. they're placed in separate cells and allowed to wash their eyes out. >> you need water? >> yes. >> right there. >> man, it stings. it burns. oh, man. it feels like my face

the inmates are then given bologna sandwiches and some juice. from there, they are told to follow a series of lines painted on the floor. >> the blue line is going to take them to cell b which is for males. and they're going to wait in that cell to be booked. the yellow lines going to take them into cell one which is classification. if they've already been booked they can go on and be classified. they're classified into three levels, low, medium, high depending on past crimes. >> this is my second time for the same thing. i didn't finish my domestic violent classes and that's why i got sentenced for 180 days for not completing that. >> 21-year-old convicted wife batterer miguel castillo is no stranger to the system. >> the worst thing is processing, you don't get your bed until sometimes eight hours, ten hours. today they told me i wasn't going to get a bed until 24 hours. >> it's a long drive from santa monica to l.a. we had to stop off in beverly hills and -- >> 28-year-old multiple drug offender daniel johns has only been in jail for a few ho