who has been through cuyahoga's county revolving door. over the past 14 years, culverson, who identifies as a transgender name ceecee, has done time for convictions, including forgery and theft and felonious assault. >> this right here is a safety zone for me because out there i'm self-destructive. i think i'm above the law. i like to steal cars and i like to rob old men, i like to sell drugs. and i'm at the point where i would do anything to maintain gucci. you know. i like the best. >> currently awaiting trial on drug trafficking and burglary charges to which he has pled not guilty. culverson said he's been planning for a sex change operation. >> i'm a woman. i always play the female part. you know, a got a 34-b. all right. and i'm still taking hormone pills. it's going to help me make the process exchange a little bit easier, because it's painful. and i got to make sure that it's something that i want to do. so they give me extra time to make sure that's what i want to do. once you get it done, there's no going back. >> are you scared

but his arrival at cuyahoga county will not soon be forgotten. >> ah! >> inconsistencies in his story and his immediate response to a sedative left the jail's mental health staff speculating as to whether jordan's behavior was due to a disorder, drug use or if it was all just an act. >> he might have wanted psychotic looking behavior to build his defense strategy. >> he's a very smart guy. when you're on the run, you've got to play your cards very close to the vest and make all the right moves. it's not easy to be on the run. so it's very possible that he decided to do it for a secondary gain. >> justice, he's in my [ bleep ] head! >> i could truly make an argument for ten different reasons what could have gone on that night. and we may never know. as they say, there is the one version, the other version, and somewhere in between is what really happened. >> michael keenan spent over two decades on death row before a judge dismissed his case for prosecutorial misconduct. today he is a free man, making his way through a world vastly different than the one

but his final days at cuyahoga county are proving to be painful. >> it burns! it burns!it burns! >> he's in security segregation for swinging at an officer. >> do you hear me? this is not a game. they got me in here for no reason. oh, my god, man. >> he must answer to the jail's disciplinary board. >> how are you doing? >> how are you? >> though silk appears unwilling to respond, the hearing continues. >> you pleaded not guilty to the jail investigator for those charges that i read you. do you want to change your plea to any of those charges? >> no. >> you want to plead you're not guilty? >> yes. >> there's video footage of you admitting that you swung at the officer. >> why did you -- >> i'm sorry, i did. i didn't mean to. >> why? >> i was angry. >> you stated you were mad because you were placed in lockup and that you were happy that you did not hit him in the face. do you remember that? >> yes, i remember that. >> do you take any type of medication? >> yes i do. >> what do you take? >> nothing at the time. >> is that because you're refusing? your medication? >> i have

you're arrested in cleveland, you could spend anywhere from a few hours to several years inside the cuyahoga county correction center. most of the 2200 men and women incarcerated here have only been charged with crimes and are weight trial of the resolution of their cases. some say the jail is a city unto itself but its director would disagree. >> i don't think this is a little city. i don't think there's a city like this in the real world. only because we have a large volume of very difficult people. >> everyone else put your hands up on your head. >> people with a lot of troubles and a lot of needs. >> according to correctional staff, inmate charles evans fits that description. >> i'm charles now, but they used to call me allen. i've been coming here since 1994. i used to be a big time drug dealer, all this and that. everybody in this building know who i am. >> evans is currently serving a six-month sentence for theft, but during his stay, he's managed to make matters a whole lot worse. >> this is all his disciplinary isolation that we've gone through. not even been here a year yet. >> bee

the cuyahoga county correction center. >> face the wall! >> about 30,000 men and women from the city and outlying areas are booked into this jail each year. the majority will be released within 24 hours. but about 2,200 occupied beds here for an indefinite period, most are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial for resolution of their cases. and like cleveland itself, the jail can be said to have tough neighborhoods of its own, especially the tenth floor. >> this is our maximum security floor. for the most part, that is where we how's our problematic inmates, inmates in some type of disciplinary lockup and we have our individuals that are here on high profile charges. >> the floor is managed by the special response team or sert, a tactical unit trained in the use of riot gear and controlling high risk inmates. >> we like to keep them close to our problems. that's kind of why they manage the floor. >> and problems do occur here. sert has just been called to a fight. little do they know, they might have been sabotaged. >> wet floor. >>

he was immediately booked into the cuyahoga county correction center. in which we met robert wolford. castro was eventually convicted and sentenced to life, plus 1,000 years in a state prison. one month later, he was found dead in his prison cell from an apparent suicide by hanging. >> unlike prison, all inmates are convicted, most jail inmates are only charged with crimes and waiting trial with resolution of their cases. both prisons and jails deal with common problem -- gangs. and for some, suppressing gang activity is a daily challenge that comes with life or death consequences. >> s o

that poses one of the largest security threats at the cuyahoga county corrections center.he top spot. >> i want to be the hnic, i want to be hnic, call all the shots. be the top man. >> incarceration however, especially in a 23 hour a day lockup can have a way of altering goals. >> want to talk to me? >> yeah. >> cooperwood has asked to speak to officer henderson who has tried to get through to the 18-year-old inmate in the past. >> i already talked to everybody, you know, members and i'm getting out of the pham. >> i'm done with the fam. >> when did you come to this decision? >> i been sitting on it awhile. i have two sons and when i get out they'll be two years and change and three years and change. so they still be young. i'm going to be there the whole time. i'm not going to go nowhere. and because of them, i ain't going to come back to jail. i can't come back to jail. i spent too much time here it ain't cool. >> that's awesome, i'm proud of you for real, that's real good. that's showing maturity. i think he's sincere. and i believe in him. all i can do is believe in h

but for the 2200 men and women in the 11th story complex, it is the cuyahoga correctional center. it isn't all it's cracked up to be. >> this ain't the place to be, it's like a little prison. >> i see girls in here crying, hysterical, i want to kill myself, this and that. it's bad. this is real bad in here. real bad. >> this place is crazy, they take everything, they might take your life. do what you can to get out and stay out. if you're just getting out, good, keep it that way. >> majority of inmates are currently accused much crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. it is a world frout with uncertainty. >> every day things are going on. when you think it's quiet, it's not, like a movie, when you don't see, that's when you don't worry, when it's quiet, that's when you ought to be worried. >> today the quiet is broken about by a code 1025. >> all available responders respond to the area. >> responding officers arrive at maximum security where a commotion between several inmates has already been contained. >> i figured out, 50 dollars. >> randy smith says se

are being ripped to splinters in cleveland, cuyahoga county, ohio. here, the great recession left 1/5 of all houses vacant. the owners walked away because they couldn't or wouldn't keep paying on a mortgage debt that can be twice the value of the home. cleveland waited four years for home values to recover, but in 2011, they decided to face facts and bury the dead. why destroy them? jim rokakis, a former county treasurer, showed us. >> we're looking at a neighborhood that has almost as many vacant houses awaiting demolition as there are houses with people living in them. we have one here. one here. one there. >> rokakis is leading the effort to tear down thousands of abandoned homes because they're rotting their neighborhoods from the inside out. it often starts, he told us, when a vacant house becomes an open house to thieves. it's a nice house from the roof to about here. and then down here, it's been ripped to pieces. what's going on? >> well, this is typical, because this is as high as they could reach without using ladders. they've ripped off th

. >> he's known at the cuyahoga county correction center in downtown cleveland as big sam. >> you used him. who's the victim? you sit here won't even open your mouth to tell me nothing about what these guys did -- >> we quickly learned gang investigator sam mclaren had a personality to match his physique. >> big sam's style was one of dedication and passion. >> you have that candy -- >> sweet. >> i'll see you later. >> thank you. >> you take care of yourself. >> he could be very caring and heartfelt in his communication, but he could also be very loud and bombastic when he felt he was being disrespected or lied to. >> this ain't no game! ain't no deals! personally going to see you, my friend. because i've been laughing since i've seen you. >> a change in these young men's lives. one example of how sam cared about the inmates, inmate tony goodwin. someone's story we have been following for a while. everybody expected him to be convicted of a murder charge and face a long term in prison. >>> we, the jury, fine the defendant not guilty of aggravated murder. >> but tony got a lesser convic

we met them inside the cuyahoga county corrections center in downtown cleveland.me, paris was only days away from being sentenced after pleading guilty to shooting a 15-year-old boy, leaving him paralyzed. >> shooting at people, robbing people, hustling. bad stuff always, like, is going to come back to you. it's called karma. >> i would characterize paris as pretty emotionless. he rarely showed any kind of reaction to anything. >> but we would soon learn, there was something that paris was passionate about. >> i did the main interview with paris, so then i got up and tracy, our segment producer, sat down, because when she asked the questions that are a little lighter, you know, anything about their life that has nothing to do with crime. >> so, i just wanted to chat a little bit about fun stuff. do you have any hobbies or anything like that? >> well, my mom taught me how to cook. >> suddenly, paris said he loves baking. that kind of sparked my interest. i think off-camera, i said -- >> what would you dream about becoming? if it wasn't on the streets, did you ever

." >>> in the heart of downtown cleveland is the cuyahoga county correction center. >> this is how it go in the county joint. >> ain't no talking. >> like virtually all jails, most of the inmates here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. women make up about 12% of the total inmate population of 1800. and though they are a minority, they still make their presence known. >> one of the surprising things we find out visiting various jails across the country is that the staff tell us that the male inmates are easier to manage than the female inmates. women like to socialize more. >> we're not nasty. >> we are not nasty bitches. >> it's a chance for them to bond, make life easier to do their time and so on. >> everybody like when these ho's say something. >> but soon there's a turn that takes place. that socializing leads to bickering. >> you looking at me? >> that leads to a lot of drama for the staff. >> [ bleep ]. >> what you say, bitch? >> during our shoot in cleveland we discovered that inmate cynthia irasari was certainly well known in he

." >>> in the heart of downtown cleveland is the cuyahoga county correction center. >> this is how itere are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. women make up about 12% of the total inmate population of 1800.

>> but it was at the cuyahoga county correction facility in cleveland where our p.a., boggs, would have the best-dressed man i think i've ever met and his clothing and accessories meant everything to him. >> he was stylish. i'll tell you. many occasions where inmates and staff alike, would comment about, you know, how he's looking good. >> i appreciate the compliment. >> i grew up very poor. i'm always this guy from the inner city of cleveland, you know, raised in cleveland. that's who i am. i remember walking to school some days and i would have holes in the bottom of my shoes, you know. my mom would make me wrap my feet in plastic, you know, and i would walk to school like that. i didn't like that. i kind of vowed to myself, man, i don't like this thing. >> warden ivey really took pride in his shoes. he had so many pairs and names i had never even heard of before. >> what's your most expensive pair of shoes you've ever bought? >> about 600 bucks. alligator. >> like them wheels? >> what are they? >> can't tell you that. >> i'm going to see what brian's wearing. >> the bomb right here.

cuyahoga county prosecutor tim mcguinty has issued 200 indictments.em are considered serial rapists. >> they don't stop until they're dead or physically unable to get out of bed and attack somebody. the sooner you empty your shelves of the rape kits, the sooner you can take the serial offenders and serial rapists off the street. >> reporter: already, cleveland's violent crime rate is dropping. >> these guys are a one-man crime wave. they rob and rape. they sell drugs and they shoot people. >> reporter: and yet many cities still aren't testing their old rape kits. >> we that's unbelievable to me. it's negligence. >> reporter: the joyful heart foundation which works to end the rape kit backlog says las vegas has tested just 16% of its 5,000 kits. tulsa, oklahoma is seeking funding to test 3,400 kits. and wisconsin has 6,000 statewide and is prioritizing which kits to test first. >> this is not just any one city or state's problem, this is a national problem. needs a national salute. >> how many women have you reached out to so far? >> i would say since

i talked the to a woman who lived in cuyahoga county.er husband is going away for ten weeks to honduras. he was going to vote that particular week. now that opportunity hash taken from him. so again when you have folks using their political might, and this is at the hands of republicans, to suppress, regress and oppress the vote, something is wrong with that. we are going backwards. and this is really about the great state of ohio deserved. he is causing con dpugs. the current attorney general that helped argue the case con dpugs. and that's why we need a different secretary of state. i'm running for that. different elected officials who believe in expanding and protecting access to the ballot box for all people. it shouldn't matter how people want to lean. people should have access to the ballot box. we should not disproportionally disenfranchise any group. the judge was very clear this is a violation of the 14th amendment to the united states constitution and also a violation of the section two of the voting rights act, which i'm sure

cuyahoga county suggests this will add to the local economy. >> we collect more tax money.emissions tax, payroll tax because additional people are being hired. so that creates jobs not just at the q itself, but also creates jobs in bars and restaurants and hotels because their numbers go up. so some of it directly we're getting money. >> of course all of this is going to depend on whether james and his teammates can win games. of course that starts tonight. guys, back to you. >> all right, great. that is great news for cleveland. and our buddy dan gilbert. >>> coming up, first read. and tim cook's announcement that he is gay. (receptionist) gunderman group. gunderman group is growing. getting in a groove. growth is gratifying. goal is to grow. gotta get greater growth. i just talked to ups. they got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. like smart pick ups. they'll only show up when you print a label and it's automatic. we save time and money. time? money? time and money. awesome. awesome! awesome! awesome! awesome! (all) awesome! i love logistics. twith avail