. >> the chatham county detention center has an average daily population of 1500 men and women, mostf whom are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. but the man who runs the jail says many more pass through its booking department every year. >> we bring about 18,000 people a year in here to be booked. that's a lot of people in and out of the jail. many of them get out on bond immediately. those that are still here can't make bond or they did not get any bond from the judges. >> such is the case for nathaniel wilkins. >> i'm edwards with classification, just have a few questions for you. what kind of job skills do you have? >> cooking. >> 24 hours earlier, wilkins says he was working as a chef at a popular savannah restaurant. but now he has exchanged his apron for a jail uniform, accused of a high-profile double homicide that occurred in a savannah suburb. >> the murders shocked neighbors, some who told news 3 this was the first time of trouble on this quiet street in decades. >> the victims, wilkins' former boss who was an executive chef a

. >> the chatham county detention center houses about 1,500 inmates, most of whom are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. among them is 18-year-old brooklyn day who arrived in savannah nearly two weeks earlier from her home in south carolina. she and her boyfriend had planned a romantic weekend on nearby tyby island. the only keepsakes they have of this trip are mug shots. >> i came down for the weekend to have fun on tyby. i was expecting to get back to school that monday and didn't ever think this would happen to me. i'm the youngest one in here i think and it's scary. i can't sleep at night like people scream in their rooms. it's really scary. >> inmate day is young. there are a lot of females here that have been in and out of this facility. and it's become more of a way of life for them. she is not one of those inmates, at least not in this point in time and i'm sure she feels intimidated by them. >> i should not be in a place like this. it's not where i want to be. >> where your food at? >> i don't know. >> why you didn't eat? >> i didn

most of the 1,500 inmates inside the chatham county detention center are only charged with crimes. they are awaiting trial. >> you ain't got to worry about me coming here no more. >> most spend time in one of the jail's general population units. those who break rules inside jail end up in unit 2 b. >> all your disciplinary action. doesn't matter about your case. you screw up in this jail you end up there. >> inmates in this high security unit spend 23 hours a day inside their cells and lose their phone and visitation privileges. the jail gives them an hour of what they call recreation but the inmates are limited from the exercise they can do. >> they are shackled up, handcuffed and go into what is called the cage. they are allowed one person in the cage. >> they are handcuffed with a lock box which fits on top of the cuffs so they can't strike when they are handcuffed in this position. >> lavaris serving in lockdown for refusing orders to return to his cell. >> you can't put your hands on your face like if i want to say oh, my god i can't do that because i'm like this. you see what

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but those who run afoul of the law will mind themselves in a far less hospitable place, the chatham county detention center. here the county houses more than 1,500 men and women, most of whom have only been charged with crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. >> man, it's ugly. it's jail. ain't nothing pretty about it. >> the majority of inmates are housed in the jail's general population units where they can interact with each other in the day room or exercise in one of the jail's enclosed yards. but in the jail's lockdown units, life is far more restrictive. >> this is unit 2-c. s' known as admin segregation. it's like the jail within the jail. >> the disciplinary issues are >> so severe, to ensure the safety of detainees, you have to place them in administrative segregation. >> administrative segregation inmates are locked down 23 hours a day and are cuffed and shackled any time they are out of their cells. they are allowed only an hour a day for rec time or phone calls, which can be taken away if they fail their daily inspection. >> they can lose their hour if t

. >> chatham county detention center has a population of 1500 men and woman. most of whom are only charged with crimes. they are waiting resolution of their cases. but the man who runs it jail says many more run through every year. >> we bring about 18000 people a year in here to be booked. that's a lot of people in and out of the jail. many get out on bond immediately. many that are still here can't make bond or didn't get bond from judges. >> such is the case with nathanial wilkins. >> what kind of job skills do you have? >> he was working at a cher at a popular savannah restaurant. now, he's exchanged his apron for a jail uniform. >> murders shocked neighbors. some told news 3 at the time, this is the first time for trouble in decades. >> the victims, a former boss at a restaurant, they were found shot to death. wilkin's arrest came two years shy of the one-year anniversary. >> honestly, i can tell y'all on camera, i didn't have anything to do with it at all. >> charged with murder and aggravated assault. when he enters his plea, it will be not guilty. >> h

most of the 1500 inmates inside the chatham county detention center are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. >> ain't got to worry about me coming back in no more. >> most spend their time among other inmates in one of the jail's general population units. but those who break the rules inside the jail end up in unit 2 b, the jail's disciplinary segregation unit. >> it's for your disciplinary action. doesn't matter about your case or anything. you screw up in this jail, you end up in 2 delta. >> inmates in this high security unit spend 23 hours a day inside their cells, and lose their phone and visitation privileges. jail gives them an hour of what they call recreation but the inmates are limited in the exercise they can do. >> they're shackled up, handcuffed, and go outside into what's called the cage. and they're allowed one person in the cage. >> they are handcuffed with a lock box which fits on top of the cuffs so they can't strike when they're handcuffed in this position. >> lavar is serving 20 days in lockdown for refusing orders to re

sflool inside the chatham county detention center t.as played the role of mentor and his main piece of advice has been to stay to yourself and keep out of trouble. hicks himself just recently ran into plenty of trouble with another inmate. >> we were playing cards. you know, words exchanged. a lot of emotions being involved, and we were talking. next thing you know we went from talking to debating and arguing. >> the cell mate michael jones witnessed what happened next. >> he got up like you tripping, you tripping. i beat your as. pick a room. >> i said, man, you tripping. no, you tripping. then i felt like he was trying to front on me. i just took off. i just -- we just grabbed each other. >> he got on top of me. that's when i guess -- >> any time they shoot, wropt to to it to you little brother. he is -- it hurt. >> i bust him out. even swap. no swimming. >> but soon after the fight hicks says he felt like he was swinging. after officers moved him to a segregation cell for fighting, hicks realized he was missing several items he had p

. >>> behind the walls of the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, norman smart awaits transfer to prison to serve life without parole after beating his wife to death. smart spends 23 hours a day in administrative segregation known as the bubble. jail officials say they are keeping smart on lockdown because of the high-profile nature of his case and his reputation as a trained fighter. >> he's a licensed fighter. he does have a record. so they feel for the safety of the facility, it's best if he's kept in the bubble here. >> the jail allowed our crew to give smart a handheld camera so he could record his thoughts and experiences in the bubble. >> they come in here and shake us down, make you put your hands through that slot there and they put handcuffs on you and make you stand up against that wall. each time make scratches from the handcuffs. when i first got in there, i didn't know what that was. i actually thought it was people trying to scratch and claw their way out of here. that's how terrible it is in here, to be in here like this 24/7. there's a bunch of little

join the nation. ♪ nationwide is on your side >>> at the chatham county detention center in savannahare allowed two visits per week. there's still a sense of distance. friends and family get no closer to the inmates than a cubicle in the jail's visitation center. they can speak to their loved ones through a telephone monitor. >> the reason why they do video visitation because it's better than contact visits. we don't have to worry about contraband entering and exiting the building. it's for protection of the officers as well as the inmate. >> i get visits from my fiancÉe and talk on the phone. it's good to hear a different voice compared to the voices you hear all day. all you hear is men's voices. when you hear something soft it makes you feel good. it gets you drunk. it gets you drunk. once you get in that mode it's like it feels good to hit this. once you get off the phone it's like man, i'm back in this world again. >> today wilkins' sister has arrived for a visit. but she's not here to see her brother. rather, she's visiting her fiancÉe wilkins' co-defendant michael jones. both

county, areas of chester county already being hit with heavy downpours, lots of lightning, 37 strikes in the last couple minutes and that white lightning bolt there is a live one. chathamt this about 4:31 avondale 4:34. down towards kaolin 4:38 in chester county, kennett square 4:39 hockessin 4:40. york wood between now and 4:42. you're encouraged to take cover indoors inside, because of all the frequent lightning. again producing about 40 miles per hour wind gusts right now pushing east into chester county and may make it all the way into philadelphia and media later on this morning. it's moving at about 45 miles per hour. temperatures right now ahead of all that are warm 77 degrees in philadelphia. 78 in millville, 66 in allentown and mid 70's down the shore. dewpoints are still running on the high side. in fact, they're in the 70's across much of the southern tier of the region. >>> that's oppressive humidity an lot of moisture for those storms to chew on once they push towards the east. 63 the current dewpoint in philadelphia. as we roll through the day we have morning thunderstorms for a few hours, 77 degrees. by 8 o'clock. and then 87 by noon, 92 by 3 o'clock and