. >> getting jerica ready for school, talk to me on the way to the bus stop. >> where is -- >> he's heree would have bouts with police. >> he would drink and somebody would call the cops. he would drink and get loud. that drunk and disorder. the cops would come, spray him with mace and handcuff him and all this, now, he's resistant and they put him in the tank. they kept him one time, a year, two years, a year and snaffle. >> what! they didn't charge him with anything, held him for a year and a half? >> drunk and disorderly. one time the police picked him up overnight and we went over there right away. they said, he's fine, sleeping and when he wakes up we'll let him go. that night they stripped him down buck naked and when they let him go he was all bruised up. >> it must do something on your psychological state of mind. >> it does. >> in and out of prison so many times. >> tommy's daughter, jerica lived with him. everyday he got her ready for school. he cooked all her meals. she was 15 years old when he father committed suicide. now, with tommy gone, jerica struggles to find a reason t

now, with tommy gone, jerica struggles to find a reason to go on.l my friends growing up, tommy had the most discipline. >> he wasn't a thug. it didn't follow that he would be the one that ended up in so much trouble. that's the cruel catch of the system. it only takes one time. and the more tommy went to jail, the more he started acting like a thug. tommy hung out in the west ward of easton. the west ward is home to the poor and black of easton. above the west ward is the juvenile detention center. and above that, at the very top of the hill is the jail. a beautiful, medieval castle, a receptical, carrying bodies from the east ward straight up to the hill. >> they have to change this around in here. we're locked down for hours. 23 hours with no [ bleep ] reason. we can't go to max block or nothing. >> 24/7. you know what i'm saying? >> how many inmates are in this jail? >> currently, we have 746 inmates. you're here, it's a little tense, it's loud. the hair on the back of your neck stands up a little bit. you hear the housing not too far away getti