stands for the maricopa county sheriff's office animal safe haven. regularly get animals in that are at death's door. >> m.a.s.h. is a housing unit for abused animals whose owners are incarcerated at maricopa. its located in one of the original jail facilities, which was shut down for human occupants in 1999. >> we get animals in that are literally skin and bones. we nurse them back to health. we resocialize them. we get them used to being around people. and once their court case is cleared, we take actual ownership of the animal, we adopt them out to a good home. >> good boy. >> the animals are cared for by inmate workers who have no history of animal abuse. male inmates take care of the horses and other farm animals. >> we get accused of standing around scratching our ass all day here at m.a.s.h. unit. best job on the yard. >> i bond more with the dogs here than any of the girls on the yard. what i like best about the dogs is they don't argue with everything that you say like the inmates do. >> abigail, calm down. >> you know, i'm very strong on an

. >>> located on the top floor of maricopa county's 4th avenue >>> located on the top floor of maricopa county's 4th avenue jail facility are the highest security male housing units. >> these are the worst in maricopa county. get them out of gp and stuff downstairs. those are the shock collars out there. get them out there, stuff calms down for a while. >> these inmates have either committed violent attacks in the jail or have been identified as gang members. some are awaiting trial while others have been convicted and are appealing their verdicts or sentences. they are isolated in very stark cells, 23 hours a day and get one hour of rec time in an empty concrete room with a skylight located right next door to their cells. >> the rec pen is the same size as the cell so you go from one cell to another to walk in circles. it's life in solitary confinement. no cellmates, no card games, no chess, but that's life. >> without the distraction of television, radio or cellmates, even the most hardened criminals can break under the pressure. >> every 25 minutes we do our walks to check on inmates

get through the doors is a challenge. >> go to the west gates, see officer von reagan. >> the maricopa countyail has been the subject of more media attention than probably any other jail in america. in recent years it's been due to the county's policies toward illegal immigrants. before that, much of the coverage centered on its practices. such as constructing an outdoor housing facility with tents. the striped uniforms and pink underwear inmates are required to wear. and the use of chain gangs to perform everything from maintenance work to burying the indigent. behind it all is the man who has run the jail since 1992. sheriff joe arpaio. >> one of my philosophies is you should never live better in jail than you do on the outside. >> you purposely want your jails to be tough, correct? >> well, i sure don't want it to be a hilton hotel like some other prisons around the nation. it's all this rehabilitation, education. we have all that in our jails, nobody talks about, but we punish our children, take away certain things from them, privileges. like how we punish people that commit crimes and ta

. ♪ >> the maricopa county jail is divided between two distinct worlds, the first is an outdoor worldthe jail is internationally famous for tent city, a cluster of outdoor housing yards for both men and women. >> ladies, fall in. i'm not talking to the fence, am i? >> life here sucks. i mean it's terrible. i don't even think this place should exist to be honest with you. >> but the vast majority of maricopa inmates live in one of five different indoor facilities where they will rarely, if ever, experience any time outdoors. >> i'm cousin ashton, i come out blastin', i'm about as hungry as a taliban fasting so just like the clumps i'll fill my plate, ghetto grinding all day it's a crime of fate. >> in one of maricopa's primary men's facilities, the fourth avenue jail, when inmates are not in their small two-person cells, they can work out in an indoor rec room or in the common area between their cells. but every afternoon many of the inmates shift focus from their bodies to their bank accounts. >> this is how i make my money. i get 50 or 60 bucks every week. i got money coming off the

and the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, is no exception. >> i'm born and raised here in phoenix, arizona, been here 24 years, my whole life pretty much. i actually live about seven miles down lower buckeye road. >> robert miner wound up here after being caught with marijuana and a loaded shotgun. even though his old job only required at most a seltzer bottle. >> i am a bum clown, man, it's kind of -- a hobo clown what they call it. a little hobo bag. it's good. i am a good guy, you know. there is a lot of good people in here. just unfortunately we break laws too. >> helen smith was a full time sales woman before being sentenced on drug charges. but her part-time job at least, got her familiar with handcuffs. >> i also do dominatrix on the weekend. >> it's a weekend gig? >> it's a weekend gig, yes. we have shackles and we have handcuffs that we use on them if they want that. >> and when the sheer monotony at life at maricopa known as tent city gets to william frost and timothy young they take refuge in the identity of others. >> greetings, live from tent city. >> i be like, yo, h

. >> located on a 400-acre lot southwest of downtown phoenix, the maricopa county jail consists of fourndoor facilities that house up to 5,700 inmates and two outdoor tent facilities that can house men and women. the fourth avenue jail houses approximately 2,000 male inmates, considered among the highest security threats. while some have actually been convicted of crimes and are awaiting transport to prison, most are still facing trial or sentencing for everything from i.d. theft to murder. maintaining order here is up to a significantly smaller staff of detention officers. >> in sheer volume, we are greatly outnumbered, so we try to reduce that by finding out who the shock callers are and going about working smarter rather than harder. >> shock callers are highly ranking members of racially segregated gangs who try to control the inmates within their housing units. in a jail system where inmates of different races are housed together, that can lead to trouble. >> prisons segregate. jail settings do not. >> we don't segregate by gangs, either. so you could have two bloods and a crip in

now, maricopa county sheriff, who i really don't like -- [applause] i consider the man and a goof. he got a regular tank and then he painted it with the maricopa county colors and a star on it and it in their list of his deputies. finally to mention one of them if i might, please triet in response to the officer, my partner was murdered december 8, 1960 and was beating adequately and appropriately. the officers for a variety of reasons one because they were not in uniform. number two, because they put themselves in vulnerable positions and they are practically on sound. they are either on trained or they don't listen to them train. the majority of cops who were murdered of 12 years or more on the job or offered complacency and they put themselves in a position. finally, the president of the united states is protected by the secret service as you know. the cooperation between local, state and law enforcement should be given for the right reasons. we know that the security the president of the united states enjoys right now was developed by my swat team and that's where they got? so