year, nearly 70,000 people make their way through one of the five facilities that comprise the orange county jailay, up to 3,000 of them can be found at orange county's largest facility, theo lacey. one way to measure the challenge of managing such a large inmate population can be found in the theo lacey kitchen, where inmate workers prepare 9,000 meals per day. >> i've actually heard that if an inmate had to be incarcerated they prefer to come to orange county jail because they are fed well. they are fed more colorfully. and our nutritional guidelines and standards are the same as the rest of the state. but we put a lot of care and energy into what we do. >> while lower security level inmates eat in the chow hall, the majority of inmates are confined to their cells. their meals are delivered by inmate workers, like robert mason. >> really helps that i used to work at denny's. it makes me thankful where i am at because at least we get to come out three times a day. it passes the time a lot quicker. these guys are locked down 23 hours a day, 22 hours a day. time goes by real slow up there. that's

. >> day-to-day management of the orange county jail in southern california is up to sheriff's deputies. some work permanently at the jail while most others rotate through, then return to street patrol. >> all right. let's line up. let's do a gear check. let's line up on the wall right here. >> a select group of deputies make up the emergency response team, a s.w.a.t.-like unit called to action when inmates refuse orders or pose an imminent threat. >> hang left. >> watch out, watch out, watch out. >> wielding a broken mop stick and other cleaning supplies, joseph etima, who has pled not guilty to a murder charge and is awaiting trial, has refused to return to his cell. >> he's upset because the hispanic inmates think he's black. he's saying he's not. he's saying he's hispanic. they don't want to program with him, so he wants out of there, and this is his way of doing it. we don't know what's going to happen once we get inside there. we don't know what the other inmates are going to do. when you go inside there, watch each other's back. handle any situation that arises. our job is not to

every year, close to 70,000 people are processed through the five facilities that make up the orange county jail in southern california. most have not been convicted but are awaiting trial, charged with >>> every year, close to 70,000 people are processed through the five facilities that make up the orange county jail in southern california. most have not been convicted but are awaiting trial, charged with everything from minor infractions to murder. some will be released or bailed out within hours. others will call the jail home until their cases are resolved in court, a process that can take years. one inmate facing such a prospect is daniel wozniak, who prior to his arrest, could be found performing as an actor on the stages of various orange county play houses. >> i want people to know i'm a good guy. i'm easy going. i enjoy long walks on the beach. i'm an aries. i just want people to know that no matter what throughout all of this, i'm really a good guy. almost everyone in my life will say so. >> what i know of wozniak is he's in custody for a double murder. a beheading was involved as well

♪put a little love in your heart.♪ >>> the best day for an inmate at the orange county jail is the dayor she is released. the second best just might be any day they receive their commissary order. the jail stocks a variety of snacks, toiletries, and other basics, which inmates can purchase with their own funds from a debit account. >> we used to do everything hand input. and now we actually have an automated system with scan tron forms that the inmates will fill out three times a week. we scan it through our system and fill the orders through the commissary. the items we have there are top brand items. they're not just your mom and pop items. >> order up some soap. got to have the stamps, you know, stamps more than likely, soaps, you know, because there might be a meal you might want to skip out on, believe me. you know? trust me. the hot cheetos and the soup. it's like a fusion, gives you that nice spice, the right texture. that's pretty good stuff right there. >> beau de'arborne likes commissary as much as anyone but feels there's room for improvement. >> i recommend there's a few it

county's other side. the theo lacy jail is the largest of five jail facilities in the orange county system. it sits on 11 acres and has a capacity of more than 3,000 inmates. >> let's go. hands behind your back. back row go to the house. >> marc gonzales is one of them, and except for his jail-issued t-shirt and scrubs, he could easily be mistaken for any other fun-loving oc teenager. >> i love surfing. i love the ocean. it's the best. the promised land here. nothing could go wrong except for robbing a weed store and getting arrested. my mom is in a lot of shock right now. it's the first offense. my baby is robbing weed stores? what does he need that for? >> unlike most inmates in the orange county jail system who have not been convicted but are awaiting trial, gonzales pled guilty to robbery and received a one-year sentence. with good behavior he could be out in nine months, and if his family gets its way back in minnesota. >> i have a bunch of newspapers under my bed because my mom sent me a subscription because i wanted to stay updated with what was going on in minnesota, concert-wise an

orange county. >> few people know that better than orange county sheriff sandra hutchins. among other things, she runs orange county's other gated community. the orange county jail. >> it is dynamic. every day is a bit different. so you constantly have to be re-evaluating that and the folks work in the housing areas are very astute at identifying problems early on and that's the key. you're dealing with a population that doesn't want to be there, they're not necessarily there with people they like, they're probably facing some very challenging times in their lives. >> the greatest challenge for many inmates in the orange county jail is uncertainty. unlike prison inmates, who have already been convicted and sentenced for crimes they have committed, most jail inmates stand charged with crimes, and are still working their cases through the court system. the process can take years. so some try to make their jail cells home. >> this is the living room right here. we keep the books and the magazines and trash. this is the kitchen where we eat and everything. this is the bathroom, the washing machine/shower, bird bath. >> with such close quarters, deputies constantly m

but i mean it's -- it's a ego booster. >> like culberson, ortega has been at the orange county jail fort 15 months. unlike culberson, she's no longer waiting for trial. instead ortega pled guilty to a dui hit and run with great bodily injury. >> i'm an alcoholic. i'm native american and irish. so all the experts say that it's in my blood. but, aside from that, i black out. the average person is going to drink as much alcohol as i would drink would and pass out, end up sleeping, snoring, whatever you do. i get hyper. and i flip into i don't know if it's tracie or stacie, what happens. a different person. and she's usually not happy or very nice and she's usually very violent. >> ortega's conviction has resulted an eight-year sentence. she is due to be transferred to prison any day now. the victim of her crime is her former boyfriend. >> basically i went out with my boyfriend and my best friend. we went to sunday brunch. which is my favorite. and i'm an alcoholic, so i have my mimosa. and then i decided it would be cool to stop at the bar, so we did that. and then i can't tell you what ha

terrible nightmare. >> a young mother deals with a dark secret. >>> inside the theo lacy jail facility in orange county, california, clarence butterfield has been busy writing. >>> inside the theo lacy jail facility in orange county, california, clarence butterfield has been busy writing. >> i have been writing poems since i've been in here. i've written 320 anyway. this is poem number 300. i dedicated it to my daughter. it's called "being an angel" because she was an angel. it's not what people do, it's the deeds they leave undone. that gives the soul remorse at the setting of the sun. a helpful word unspoken, a letter you did not write, now is when you said later are the ghosts that haunt at night. the burdens you might have lifted out of each other's way, the little gift of wisdom you have no time to say. in a world of harsh and bitter, a soft and gentle tone can ease the broken hearted but you had troubles of your own. >> butterfield might have thought his 21-year-old daughter rebecca was an angel but he's accused of torturing and murdering her. he says he's innocent but admits to keeping his daugh

they always begin their time at the intake center located at the central jail facility. >> orange county jail system is considered a mega jail. we have the ability to house over 7,000 inmates at one time. and the challenges we face pretty much reflect, to a certain degree, the challenges the community faces with gang affiliations, with drug abuse, mental problems, issues that would be better served in hospitals but given the current situation they end up in jails. >> since the new arrivals' charges might range from minor infractions to murder, deputies must be vigilant to ensure safety. >> the uncuffing process is probably the most dangerous. that's where if they're going to do something to us, they'll do it then. once they're uncuffed they have an opportunity to attack us if they want to. it's a lot of judging on our behalf to see where they're at, if they're going to try anything or not. >> brian james came through intake less than 24 hours ago. after a wild night on the streets. >> my charges are robbery, assaulting a police officer with a vehicle, resisting arrest, possibly home invasion

when we first met clarence butterfield he had been incarcerated for more than a year at the orange county jail in southern california. like most jail inmates he had not been convicted but was incarcerated awaiting jail. he had pled not guilty to the murder of his daughter. but that didn't stop him taking jokes. >> how about a d.a. takes a gun under his arm into a bar. bartender goes, you can't come in here with a pig. he goes, i was talking to the duck. >> clarence is an older gentleman, old man you can call him. a giddy old man. happy. happy to be here. >> diagnosed with hyperverbal. >> we can't all be winners now, can we? you have to be people like me to make you real winners in life look really good. >> butterfield kind of jumps from one subject to another subject really quickly. he was really hard to follow in conversation. >> you know me, i'm kind of ignored. kind of being married for 26 years i'm really used to being ignored anyway. >> we start asking him direct questions. and he would answer about something completely off the wall that we weren't even talking about. >> i love germans. t

. >> but at the orange county jail we discovered an entire housing unit where low profile seems in short supply. its official name was mod q, but others prefer to call it the drama mod. >> that's my [ bleep ] right there. that's my [ bleep ]. come here and show your -- >> this specific sector here houses protective custody inmates that are homosexuals, and they have to be separated from the jail population for various reasons. >> i love you, baby. >> it's mainly to protect them from the rest of the population. >> mod q is different because you did find men dressed as women or men with breast implants that looks like women. it was loud, and there were girly screams. >> i've been working out. >> the drama, it's exactly what you could expect of young people without a solution to their identity that just go crazy and run around like nuts. >> there's a lot of drama in mod q. there's fighting and there's flirting and there's yelling. >> baby, come here. >> it gets overwhelming to the point where when you leave the mod, it's just like draining. like, wow. we need to take a little break for a li

. >> we met miramontes at the orange county jail.e he was a member of a los angeles street gang and a meth addict. it seemed out of sorts with the young man who enjoyed reading novels and writing poetry. >> i like to read a lot. i like nicolas sparks. "walk to remember." "notebook." >> oh, so like romantics? >> oh, yeah. i'm a sucker for that. >> even cry when you read the sad part? >> yeah. most of the guys don't want to admit that because, hey, we're in jail. you know. but i don't care. >> but miramontes was facing the possibility of a lifetime in prison. >> been almost two years. my charges are special circumstance murder. big case. big case. >> miramontes had entered a not guilty plea and was still awaiting trial when we met him. the night of the murder, he says he was visiting friends in an orange county gang and that they were all drinking and high on drugs. while driving around their neighborhood, his friend stopped to confront a 19-year-old man who had allegedly flashed a rival gang sign. >> what ended up happening was the or