>>> at the hillsboro county jail in tampa, florida, sentenced inmates work in a variety of capacities throughout the facility. there's a waiting list for the much coveted jobs and those lucky enough to hold them receive one day off their sentence for every six days worked. javier perez's job in the laundry facility has made the two months he has been here go by a little easier. >> it's something to do. if they made me feed pigs, i would have done that. >> when his morning shift is over, perez heads back to the dorms. >> 29, perez. >> once he's back at his bed, he often turns to a new time filler, poetry. >> my life comes and goes, where life can change no one knows how in life is love many need a hug where they need it is from heaven up above >> it's something for me just to escape for a little while, you know? >> just two days after his arrest, perez's first child, a son, was born. >> i haven't even got a chance to hold him or meet him or anything. just be able to touch him for him to feel i'm there. i hear him cry over the phone and it's like, i'm coming, i'll be there soon. just ho

weight from the predominantly starchy food served in jail, dee dee moore, who we met at the hillsboro countyail in tampa, florida, proved to be an exception. >> i know when you first came in you were weighing about 210 pounds. >> uh-huh. >> what are you down to now? what? >> oh, i'm down to under 150. >> really? >> when i came in, i weighed 250. when i first -- >> 250? >> yeah. i've lost 100 pounds since i've been here. >> moore, who was awaiting trial in a high-profile murder case to which she had pled not guilty, attributes her weight loss to a distinct dislike of jail food and her in-cell workout routine. >> i run. i run in place. i do it for 30 minutes to an hour. i do leg lifts. i do the six inch. i do scissors. i do the push-ups, the sit-ups, the jumping jacks. >> this is "the biggest loser" contest and i got the public humiliation to go along with it. but now i'm skinny. >> coming up, some of the wildest tattoos we've ever seen. >> get the back piece on camera, baby. huh? showing off your work, son. [ dad ] find it? ya. alright, another one just like that. right in the old bucket. goo

. >> colonel jim, a former secret service agent, runs the two facilities that make up the hillsboro county the jail has a capacity of 3,000 inmates.