the food sucks. >> welcome to kent county. this [ bleep ] place sucks. don't ever come here. >> a different attitude prevails in h2a, one of the jail's minimum security housing units. >> we teasingly call this the hamptons because they're up here with no cells. they have freedom of movement as long as they listen. that's kind of their punishment. the thought of having to live behind doors again. >> most inmates in there are pretty compliant, easy going. a lot of them are in there for minor crimes. so we really don't have to stay on them that much. but you do still have to supervise them. >> i call it h2-awesome. i mean, it's pretty nice. you have a lot more freedom. you have all-day dayroom, a microwave. two flat-screen tvs to watch. pullup bar and stuff for working out. >> this is the best unit in jails. >> this is the penthouse of the jail. >> it's still jail. you are locked in one room 100% of the time. >> sean denbraven arrived in the hamptons, after his arrest, a night he remembers little of. >> i was blacked out drunk. i don't remember having the p

this is the kent county jail. temporary home to about 1,000 men and women. most of whom are accused of crimes and awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. >> i can't do anything that i want to when i want to. i have to ask everybody. i hate asking for anything. >> ooh, sauce. ain't no sugar coating it. the food sucks. >> welcome to [ bleep ] this place sucks. don't ever come here. >> and h2-a, one of the housing units. >> we teasingly call this the hamptons, um here with no cells, freedom of movement, as long as they listen. that's kind of their punishment. the thought of having to live behind doors again. >> most inmates in there are pretty compliant, easy going. a lot of them are in there for minor crimes. so we really don't have to stay on them that much. but you do still have to supervise them. >> i call it h2-awesome. pretty nice. you have a lot more freedom. you have all-day day room, a microwave. two flat-screen tvs to watch. pull-up bar and stuff for working out. >> this is the best unit in jails. >> this is the penthouse of the jail. >> it's

the kent county jailhouses about 1,000 men and women. some of them have been convicted but most are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial with the resolution of their cases. >> any problem? >> no problem, sir. >> captain randy demery has been confronting problems for 25 years he worked at the jail. >> good friend of mine said the thing that makes corrections so easy is that all you have to do is get voluntary compliance out of a bunch of people who have already proven that they will not voluntarily comply with the rules of society. so piece of cake. and we're in a position where we can get to a very large degree voluntary compliance out of that group of people, so actually the challenge of that is rewarding and fun. >> some challenges like those presented by joe leija can take longer to resolve than others. >> he doesn't come across as a dangerous guy, he's respectful to the officers, but it's not one of those guys i would trust. he's definitely a dangerous individual, especially on the street, and within his gang world. you wo

. >> they reside behind the razor wire fences and brick walls of kent county jail.t of the inmates are awaiting trial or the resolution of their cases. upon being booked into the jail, they change street clothes for jail uniforms and leave personal possessions, including cash and jewelry in sealed bags that will be stored until you are released. >> the guy when he was doing the patdowns, we had a long discussion about it. he told me my tongue ring, that's got to come out. i'm like it doesn't come out. if they go to cut it, they'll end up cutting my tongue. he said never mind, we're going to leave it be. >> he was allowed to keep one other piece considered too embedded to safely remove. >> i keep it up my nose. i leave it be. >> he's serving a six-month sentence at kent county for aggravated domestic violence. it's the second time he's been convicted for assaulting his girlfriend. >> i could be doing a hell of a lot longer for what i did. i mixed pills with my liquor. i thought she was choking me. i woke up and i threw her across the room by her throat. that's all i

a few miles from downtown is the kent county jail. >> people ask me all the time out there in the worldwho you got in jail. i always tell them, we have your family members, we have your neighbors, your co-workers. >> any given day, 1,000 men and women are incarcerated here. >> i want you on your bunks. time for head count. i need your id. >> some are convicted, most are only accused of crimes and awaiting trial and the resolution of their cases. >> we have the people standing behind you in the line at the grocery store, the people handing you food at the window at the drive up. they are the people we have in jail. >> my life is in this sack. >> a few years earlier, it would be a surprise to see brandee nyp in jail. they might have remembered her as a popular secretary at a nearby elementary school. >> many people that knew me from school, if they see me now, they would know something is seriously wrong. two years ago, i started smoking crack and i resigned from my job and lost both of my daughters and started living on the streets using crack. >> nyp is charged with possession of narcot

this is the kent county jail.hile some are convicted, most of the 1,000 men and women here are only charged with crimes and awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. >> do the crime you've got to pay the time. you know? >> it's not the ideal setting in which to make friends. some do. jeremy feels like an outcast. >> jeremy is the model inmate. he's very quiet. never gets into trouble. he's generally in his cell and if he does come out of his cell he comes and he sits quietly. >> i don't consider anybody in here friends. i'd rather be in here than out there with some of those people sometimes because there's a lot of negative energy out there. there's not very many people to talk to me in here because i'm gay. >> merithew says he encounters too many attitudes. like that of ruben flores. >> if you want to be homosexual, that's good. that's your problem. it's your business. i'm going to tell you that god don't like homosexuals, that that's something against nature. if you want to do it, that's on you. but it'

a few miles from downtown is the kent county jail. >> people ask me all the time when i'm out in the world, who do you got in jail. i always tell them, well, we've got your family members, we've got your neighbors, your co-workers. >> reporter: any given day, about 1,000 men and women are incarcerated here. >> i want you guys on your bunks. it's time for headcount. i need your i.d.s. >> while some are convicted, most are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trail for resolution of their cases. >> we've got the people standing behind you in the line at the grocery stores. got the people handling the food to you through the window in the driveup. those are the people we have in jail. >> the sack -- >> a few years earlier, it might have come as a surprise to many local residents to see brandi knight inside the jail. they might have remembered her as a popular secretary at a nearby elementary school. >> many of the people that knew me from school, if any of them would see me now, they would know something's seriously wrong. two years ago, i started smoking crack, and i resigned from m

want to go where the people are not. >>> day-to-day operations of the kent county jail are managed by sheriff deputies. john hess used to be one of them. now he's under sheriff, the county administrator who oversees the jail and its staff. >> we have some mean, nasty, ugly people in jail. some real hard core criminals but the majority of people from our community. people that are going back. so i think we try really, really hard here to have our staff understand that these are just people. >> deputy justin flynn worked for the jail seven years and says he's bought in to that philosophy. >> nobody wants to be in jail. i'm ready to go home after eight hours. i'm trying to make their day better. these guys know i'll talk to them all. we joke around, but if they cross a line, they're going to get time. >> he says breaking up the monotony of jail is important, and there are certain ways to do so. >> the bag game is bean bag toss. the more you can occupy them, the more they're distracted from getting into trouble. the one thing we can't let these guys do is -- gamble, because this is more o

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joining me now is the eastern federal correspondent and by phone, kent carper, the president of the county commission going around today, making sure people are doing their jobs and testing the stuff. first to you. me more about what you have learned today and how sick you can get if you ingest it. >> i went to the site and when they say black licorice, they are not kidding. it's an overwhelming smell and it makes you feel nauseous. it doesn't smell good. it smells bad. we know that if you are expoedsed to this and you are taught to drink this chemical, it's crude mchm, you could get sick if you touch it or if you drink it. here's the thing though. people who are touching it or drinking it now and hope they are not now, but have been in the past say 24 hours. if they are getting it in a diluted form. it is so diluted. they said don't drink it and don't boil it and try to drink it and don't do anything except for flush it down the toilet. >> to you on the phone, the county commission, as you start the commission, it this personally affecting you and your home water? >> i lefed here my whole